91 collocations for construe

You cannot suppose that the servants of the king of Great Britain will submit to your American mode of construing public law; but will easily understand that we leave such matters to our own admiralty judges.

To construe this provision so as to enable the citizens of the District to hold as property, and in perpetuity, whatever they please, or to hold it as property in all circumstancesall necessity, public welfare, and the will and power of the government to the contrary notwithstandingis a total perversion of its whole intent.

In construing the Constitution we must then next inquire, Is its exercise "necessary and proper"?not whether it may be convenient or useful "for carrying into execution" the power to regulate commerce among the States.

In going through Plato and Demosthenes, since I could now read these authors, as far as the language was concerned, with perfect ease, I was not required to construe them sentence by sentence, but to read them aloud to my father, answering questions when asked: but the particular attention which he paid to elocution (in which his own excellence was remarkable) made this reading aloud to him a most painful task.

Won't you say something to encourage meto give me heart for the future?" "Let me see," and she leaned on her elbow musingly, as if construing his words literally, and quite unaware of the tender intent of his prayer.

Of the pupils the two young people were but lazy scholars, and as my lady would admit no discipline such as was then in use, my lord's son only learned what he liked, which was but little, and never to his life's end could be got to construe more than six lines of Virgil.

At any rate, upon the occasion in question, I strove to drown my exasperated feelings towards the scrivener by benevolently construing his conduct.

But he can construe all the grammar rules.

For some years past Great Britain has so construed the first article of the convention of the 20th of April, 1818, in regard to the fisheries on the northeastern coast, as to exclude our citizens from some of the fishing grounds to which they freely resorted for nearly a quarter of a century subsequent to the date of that treaty.

Where doubts of any person are removed, a mind not ungenerous is willing, by way of amends for having conceived those doubts, to construe every thing that happens, capable of a good instruction, in that person's favour.

This is an important indication of the spirit in which Shelley wrote, and consequently of that in which his reader should construe his writings.

The words [Greek: ouch hôs genómenon] he construes thus: "not as eternally generated," as if he had read [Greek: gennômenon], supplying [Greek: aïdíôs] by imagination.

The notary agreed to attend, and thus, still construing appearances according to the assimilating bent of her mind, she departed for home.

that is enough for him to construe the look as an advance which is made to him, or at least as an encouragement, and to believe himself authorized then to undertake some enterprise.

[Footnote B: I mean by this phrase, "right to property in man," a right to hold man as property; and I do not see with what propriety certain writers construe it to mean, a property in the mere services of a man.]

as he interprets it; which I, ignorantly, construed "Unlock or open it!"

We cannot construe to the imagination a polygon with an infinite number of sides (i.e. with a number of sides greater than any given number), but neither can we construe to the imagination a polygon with a million of sides; nevertheless, we understand what is meant by the first description as well as by the second, and can reason upon both.

She naturally thought, that, when she was married, she should have nothing more to say to exercises and lessons; but she found a pedagogue in Shelley, and the honeymoon saw her "attacking Latin" for the purpose of construing the poet Horace.

He begged them not to construe his remarks into self-praise, but to understand them as intending to simply show his unselfish interest in the prosperity of the Monastery.

Master, now I have construed my lesson, my mistress would pray you to let me come home to go of an errand.

His eye rests on Arthur, and he calls him up to finish construing Helen's speech.

Of course, the Temperance Reformers will construe this expression of opinion into an admission that every man, woman, or advocate of female suffrage, who has ever written a line for PUNCHINELLO is a confirmed drunkard.

But how far that friendship entails obligationit has been a friendship between the nations and ratified by the nationshow far that entails an obligation, let every man look into his own heart, and his own feelings, and construe the extent of the obligation for himself.

The others differ in meaning; because they construe the word father, or Father, differently.

You have taken too much for granted; because I have not wished to hurt you, you have believed my silence indicative of love; you have construed friendship into devotion.

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