"Well, I rather think I have," coolly replied the stranger, whose words conveyed a double meaning, as we soon learned.

"I would urge upon you, at the very earliest moment, the duty of increasing the ample means with which Heaven has blessed you.

" Under Vincent's ardent escort Mrs. Sprague and Merry traveled from Richmond northward in something like haste and with as much comfort as was possible to the limited means of transportation at the command of the Confederate commissary.

Socrates in the Phaedrus laughs at allegory;[300] and Plutarch believes that the poets intended to teach a moral idea by example instead of expressing a hidden meaning by allegory.

"They seemed to have an idea, thoughto account for the problem of the locked doorthat thieves might have got into the house with the object of making a haul in the bedrooms while every one's attention was engaged down below, have secreted themselves in the tower, been surprised by Henshaw, and, to save themselves, have taken the only effectual means of silencing him, poor fellow.

All their endeavours to prolong life, by artificial means, could not be attended with beneficial effects; and the application of the remedies thus contrived, must necessarily, in many cases, have proved detrimental to the health of the patient.

First, however, you are to study each word in both lists for (1) its exact meaning, (2) the influence of the key-syllable upon that meaning, (3) any variation of the key-syllable from its ordinary form.

"There are no wings to St. Cow's yet," returned the Father, coldly,"only the main building; and that is too small to harbor any sinner who has not sufficient means to build a wing or two for himself.

It is, therefore, sir, in no degree prudent to aggravate the inconveniencies of the measures proposed for accomplishing what every man seems equally to desire; to declaim against the expedients offered in the bill as pernicious, unjust, and oppressive, contributes very little to the production of better means.

The precise meaning is lazily or incompetently left to the hearer to imagine.

Scorching winds which parched the throat and made everything one wore hot to the touch were enough to oppress the staunchest soldier, but these sterling Territorials, costers and labourers, artisans and tradesmen, professional men and men of independent means, true brothers in arms and good Britons, left their bivouacs and trudged across heavy country, fearless, strong, proud, and with the cheerfulness of good men who fight for right.'

Beardsley said: "It is difficult to speak with any moderation of the outrageous eruption of the I.W.W. It is nothing less than rebellion, and the most effective means of suppressing rebellion is to apply a little of that 'direct action' which is the favorite diversion of the I.W.W.'s.

He turned again, understanding now the drift, if not the inner meaning, of that summons that had come.

Again, you will perceive that many words once had more literal or more definitely concrete meanings than they have now.

The late autumnal gales revealed the fact that the sole means of ventilation had been so nicely contrived that whoever came in or went out admitted a hurricane of draught that nearly knocked him down.

A man of moderate means, long before he has reached his thirtieth year, generally seeks one assistant; men of larger fortune may want two, five, or ten.

The greatest benefit which he conferred on the State was in the laws which gave relief to poor debtors, those which enabled people to protect themselves by constitutional means, and those which prohibited fathers from selling their daughters and sisters for slaves,an abomination which had long disgraced the Athenian republic.

"You say that you were not blind to surrounding objects, even if they conveyed but little meaning to you.

All the machinery of government has been set to work to repress rather than to provide adequate means for justly dealing with a large population which had no political rights.

No; if we have any real reverence for the Holy Scriptures, we must take them word for word in their plain meaning, and find the message of God's Spirit in that plain meaning, instead of trying to put it in for ourselves.

The former, by lawful means and by his great abilities, raised himself from a private station to the dukedom of Milan, and maintained with but little difficulty what had cost him so much trouble to acquire.

The countess bridled and looked at her daughter with obvious maternal meaning, as one who was saying, "Thereyou bungled your prince, but I have procured you a baron.

In those latitudes where day and night during the greater part of the year are not even approximately equal, the black and green semicircles are so enlarged or diminished by mechanical means, that the hour of the day or night is represented as accurately as on the Equator itself.

" This word glory, whether in its Greek or its Roman shape, had a very definite meaning in the days of the Apostles.

They lived on scanty private means.