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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

It spoke well for Kurt that he had followed that old harrow hundreds of miles, that he could stand the strain, that he loved both the physical sense and the spiritual meaning of the toil.

I think I also remarked in his temper starts of suspicion, when he seemed to pause and consider whether there had not been a secret and perhaps offensive meaning in something that was said to him.

There is a profound meaning in the suggestion, in the Bible story of man's "fall," that, when man had come to the knowledge of good and evil, the first practical duty which he recognized as incumbent upon himself, was the duty of concealment; and from that day to this that duty has been incumbent on him.

" All that is here asserted by Proclus will be immediately admitted by the reader who understands the outlines which we have here given of the theology of Plato, and who is besides this a complete master of the mystic meaning of the Parmenides; which I trust he will find sufficiently unfolded, through the assistance of Proclus, in the introduction and notes to that dialogue.

But probably Shelley thought only of the primary meaning of the word chrysolite, 'golden-stone,' and his phrase as a whole comes to much the same thing as 'a cloud with a golden lining.' +Stanza 6,+ 1. 1.

An exclamation of doubtful meaning and origin.

Unfortunately the word Kindergarten while being naturalised in England had two distinct meanings attached to it.

Consult the dictionary for actual meanings.

It is evident that these dialectic differences arise, not from the use of a different language, but a different mode of applying the same languagea language in which every syllable has a well-known primitive meaning.

Pucca literally means 'ripe,' as opposed to cutcha, 'unripe'; but the rich Oriental tongue has adapted it to almost every kind of secondary meaning.

But already had he bethought himself of acting in more subtle ways; and now he would speak to this one, now to that one, words whereby I, being most eager for such enlightenment, discovered that whatever he said to these was fraught with figurative and hidden meanings, intended to show forth his ardent affection for myself.

The reason is, that men are unwilling to draw a limited meaning from any human act.

"Jean."M. Michelet asserts that there was a mystical meaning at that era in calling a child Jean; it implied a secret commendation of a child, if not a dedication, to St. John the Evangelist, the beloved disciple, the apostle of love and mysterious visions.

For a moment Willits enjoyed his friend's embarrassment and then, as the probable meaning of the frock coat began to dawn upon him, his expression changed to one of apprehension.

with all my soul, Sir; alas, you mistake my honest meaning, I scorn to be so unjust as not to see you a-bed together; and then agree as well as you can, I have done my partIn order to this, Sirget but your self conveyed in a Chest to my house, with a Direction upon't for me; and for the rest Gay.