Beg your pardon," said Mac hastily, as though not only English, but punctilious manners were understanded of Kaviak.

Indian or Esquimaux boys they seemed to be, who talked some jargon understanded of the Pymeut pilot.

For I have not been one of those fortunate persons who are able to regard a popular lecture as a mere hors d'oeuvre, unworthy of being ranked among the serious efforts of a philosopher; and who keep their fame as scientific hierophants unsullied by attemptsat least of the successful sortto be understanded of the people.

The League of Nations, if it is to have any such effect as people seem to hope from it, must be, in the first place, "understanded of the people.

It is "understanded of the people" among all truly nautical races.

To characterize these creatures in language "understanded of the people" is not easy, but Mr. Brown has made clear the zoological affinities of the species, and has pointed out their probable origin.

He bade them to sit in this Parliament, and hearken to the talk; but when he cried, "Nimad covre seax" (which being interpreted means "Pluck forth your knives," and would not be understanded of the Britons), they were to snatch out their daggers and make each a dead man of his neighbour.

And, presently, I ceased from fleeing, and had some calmness, and did eat and drink; and so came to the comfort of a firm spirit, the which had been sore troubled, above all understanded causes, by that horrid sounding upward in the Night.

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

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.

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.

We forgot to do this, and had infinite trouble afterwards in getting what we wanted, and lost much time in acquiring the rudimentary knowledge of Hindustani which enabled us to worry along with our native servants, &c. No mere "globe-trotter" need attempt to learn any Kashmiri, as Hindustani is "understanded of the people" as a rule, and the tradesmen in Srinagar know quite as much English as is good for them. See Appendix 1.

My own work, which has been based quite frankly on Mr. Angell's book, has convinced me that it embodies just the formula most readily understanded of the people.

"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.

You would certainly suppose that the people who believe that everything should be done under a written law would take the greatest pains to see that law was official; also, that it was clear, so as to be "understanded of the people"; also, that it did not contain a thousand contradictions and uncertainties.

" The notion which the learned divines set forth so elaborately at Westminster, art has expressed in forms much better "understanded of the people."

To such discipline we have all been laudably amenable, and morale has seldom been seen in the London papers since 1914; but it, and not moral, is the English word; we once all wrote it without thinking twice about the matter; even in war-time one met it in the local newspapers that had not time to keep up with London's latest tricks, and in those parts of the London Press itself that had to use a tongue understanded of the people.