They take no interest in the affairs of the district; as a rule, they are suddenly transplanted into the midst of a population whose dialect even they do not understand.

Interpreters are especially indispensable in the Philippines, where the alcaldes never by any chance understand any of the local dialects.

Understand?"

"You shan't make no single step to talk with Dan!" "Can't you understand that it's you they threaten?"

Won't you tell me that you try to understand?" He said at last: "Yes.

For my own part, I could see no "virgin forests," as by this term I understand a forest of mighty trees.

The conversation, on the contrary, was not so successful; my host did not understand any European language, nor I any Asiatic language.

As far as I could understand, he meant to say that I was now in Persia, and that he wanted to see my passport.

She does not understand me, and may go on further.

At first I could not understand the meaning of the proceeding at all; but, as we were stopped several times in the course of the day in a similar manner, I concluded that these men were soldiers on duty.

I did not think it advisable to give myself out as their owner, and therefore appeared not to understand him, but assumed an air of great concern and trouble.

I always endeavoured, indeed, to establish peace; but it was very seldom that I succeeded, as I was unfortunately not sufficient master of the language to make them understand the impropriety of their conduct.

At the same time he pointed to some dozens of horses in an adjoining stubble field, and endeavoured to make me understand that in a few hours a caravan was going our way.

Still I was at a loss to understand his proceedings, for I saw no signs of a caravan.

I did not understand enough Persian to be able to obtain an explanation, and did not wish to say anything more to the fellow about not keeping his contract, so I was obliged to goand I did go.

He gives them distinctly to understand, that they need not go out of themselves to form a just estimation of their position, duties, and prospects, as standing in the presence of the Messiah.

There were reasonsthe Signor would understand thatwhich made this decision inevitable.

"You hearken while I read poor Susan's letters, and then you'll understand all about it.

Do you understand?" "Yes," answered Tony, nodding his head.

He could not half understand it, but a vague feeling of a love passing all understanding sank deeply into his heart.

There was no one to check her, or to make her understand it was real, serious work: neither old Oliver nor Tony could find any fault with their darling.

"Even learned critics", he says, "highly cultivated in all the niceties of aesthetics, are deficient in the knowledge of Catholic faith and Catholic theology properly to understand Calderon" (Lectures, p. 110, taken from the Introduction to my volume, p. 3).

I wonder if the people who have been born in or moved to Iowa in the past thirty to forty years can be made to understand that we can not possibly have such winter storms of this sort as we had then.

I wondered that Virginia did not say anything; but she kept still because she did not understand where she was, or what I had done with her.

With an innocent shake of the head, "Two shinnin," was all the English she could understand.