You can't explain a thing like that.

"Of my wife, Patricia?" "Good gracious, no! I have not the least doubt you will explain matters satisfactorily to your wife, for I have always heard that practise makes perfect.

He didn't seem to understand the matter at all, and I didn't undertake to explain the reason of my being there.

"No, not at all, only very uncomfortable"and then I explained the situation to himthat my dress was so tight I could neither move nor eat.

Neither Thursday nor Hetty allowed a word to escape concerning the placing of the bomb in the Tribune office, but the explosion was public knowledge and many were bothering their heads to explain its meaning.

We had not stopped many minutes, before a well-dressed man, wearing the appearance of authority, having ridden up, we asked him to explain the cause of their violent, and seemingly lawless proceedings.

Again, in chronic cases, as time is required for their cure, by explaining to the patient this fact, we maintain his confidence, we keep his mind easy, and thus gain a fair opportunity for the operation of regimen or remedies; in short, the judicious physician, like the Roman general, Fabius, conquers through delay, by cutting off the supplies, and wearing out the strength of the enemy.

On this occasion the admiral was at great pains to explain the nature of this phenomenon to the people by instancing the example of Aetna and several other known volcanoes.

But who can explain the mystery of Minóok?

You seem to be in better position than ourselves to explain the circumstances which puzzle you.

" "You'd find it correct this draught"; and the priest explained his views on the subject while Potts's letter was being addressed.

What is the difference?" Rolfe, with a Londoner's tolerance for foreign ignorance, painstakingly explained the difference.

We have no dictionary and no interpreter to explain a single word, and must get something of the language before we can avail ourselves of the assistance of a native teacher....

It is very good of you to explain to me my position in this affair; I am, however, quite capable of seeing that for myself.

They talk of the variation of the compass, and even pretend to calculate its changes, though no one can explain the principle that causes the attraction or its vagaries at all.

This is said in no spirit of hostility to the League, but only to explain the American point of view.

At Fairfax Court-House, where the first signs of real warlike tenure were seen, the visitors were taken into a low frame house, and each in turn asked to explain the objects of her mission.

Gray Stoddard explained the plan to me.

He could have correctly blazoned every tincture in their armorial bearings and have explained the origin of every rampant, counter-changed or couchant beast upon the shield.

They hurried me back from the brink, and then explained their motive, and asked my forgiveness.

The drifting cloud detritus gave it a kind of visible body, which explained many perplexing phenomena, and published its movements in plain terms, while the texture of the falling mass of rain rounded it out and rendered it more complete.

In trying to explain the conditions up here, I have my chief difficulty in making them realise the great distances we have to cover.

In his "Dedicatio" to his brother and in his extensive preface he explains his then new method.

The plot, in all its details, must have been known to Jack or Dick, else how explain their presence in the chamber, armed and ready for the murder?

III., p. 582), explains clearly this time difficulty and its solution by the Congregation of the Council on 22nd July, 1893.