Understanding numbers.

exclaimed Jacopo, when his understanding eye had run over the near and distant view"they are already far down the coast, and with a wind like this they cannot fail to reach their haven in a few hours.

But now the mystic tale, that pleased of yore, Can charm an understanding age no more; The long-spun allegories fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below.

If it's a question of money, say the word, and" "All right, Mr. Allerdyke, leave it to usfor the present," said the chief, with an understanding smile.

Understanding adults.

So was his understanding glance.

The understanding prince.

With all the other European powers with whom the United States have formed diplomatic relations and with the Sublime Porte the best understanding prevails.

"I've found such a friend; a real understanding friend; and it's the girl from the House of Lords.

Blueprint reading; understanding shop practices, by Fred Nicholson & Fred Jones.

With an understanding nod Valentine disappeared inside the tower and the quick clatter of her wooden shoes echoed up from below.

Understanding drama, by Cleanth Brooks & Robert B. Heilman.

And he'd get so interested that I'd think for a minute that maybe the understanding twinkle would come into his eyes again.

Those who are in evil from the understanding dwell there in front and are called satans, but those who are in evil from the will dwell to the back and are called devils, 492.

"A Substantive or Noun is a name given to every object which the senses can perceive; the understanding comprehend; or the imagination entertain.

The cry through the darkness for light, even if light brought destruction, was one that awoke the keenest sympathy of response from my heart: "If our fate be death, Give light, and let us die!" To see, to know, to understand, even though the seeing blind, though the knowledge sadden, though the understanding shatter the dearest hopes, such has ever been the craving of the upward-striving mind of man.

" The reasons for compiling this work are these, that in the year of the Hijra, 1215, A.D. 1801, corresponding to the Fasli year 1207, in the time of his Excellency the noble of nobles, Marquis Wellesley, Lord Mornington, Governor-general, (in whose praise the judgment is at a loss, and the understanding perplexed, and in whom God has centred all the excellent qualities that great men ought to possess.

It was too clear, that a doctrine which muddles the understanding perverts also the power of moral discernment.

" Mr. Boxer winked at Mr. Thompson, and received an understanding pinch in return; Mrs. Thompson in a hot whisper told them to behave themselves.

There was no other in the world to whom the departed penitent could be dear; and heoh, was it difficult to suppose that merciful Heaven, merciful to the guiltiest, had placed between his conscience and his horrible offence a cloud that made all dimhad rendered his understanding powerless to comprehend a crime which reason must have punished and aggravated endlessly My judgment was prostrated by what I learned so suddenly and fearfully.

He could enforce all his orders by the power of an absolute monarch; he could compel individuals to sacrifice their private profit to the general good; he could make one understanding preside over many hands, and remove difficulties by quick and violent expedients.

It is time, therefore, to tell him, by the authority of Shakespeare, that he assumes, as an unquestionable principle, a position, which, while his breath is forming it into words, his understanding pronounces to be false.

No understanding reader could be imposed upon by such obvious rhodomontade to suspect me for an alien, or believe me other than English.

But with regard to the commercial intercourse between the United States and the British colonies in America, it has been hitherto found impracticable to bring the parties to an understanding satisfactory to both.

Speech is seldom imperative, but understanding signals is as necessary to one's soul-happiness as air to the lungs.