37255 examples of understood in sentences

She understood now what poor Mr. Watkins had suffered, and to think she had distrusted himeven for one brief second!

"She understood your little game that day of the fire, when you and Jim Denton were talking together!

In less than five minutes Faith entered the office, but before he came the detective slipped a newspaper over the box of poisoned candy, and a nod of the head showed that Mr. Denton understood and approved of the movement.

Faith could not have been a woman and not understood their meaning.

"I have never understood how I came to do it.

If her mother understood her eagerness, she did not betray it, but with Mr. Watkins it was different.

He understood and was nettled.

" Mr. Denton looked at her, and understood at once.

A high price on an article was often misleading until the manufacturer's side of the question was explained and understood, and so, too, a low price often produced various criticism from those who could not differentiate between just and usurious profit.

But in the main the efforts of the merchant were pretty fairly understood and a perfect flood of congratulations followed the enlightenment.

The young man understood the glance and hurried with his explanation.

For in nurseries, Indian as well as English, tales are loved the better when no longer new, and where the end is well known to, and therefore the better understood by, the tiny round-eyed listeners.

Then the old Brahman guessed that the beggar was Saturn in disguise, and he also understood why, when the other two daughters-in-law gave him nothing and were cursed by him, there was nothing for dinner.

] Its influence is one of those things on which it is profitless to comment or enlarge simply because they are an understood part of every man's experience.

You will find nothing in classical poetry so poignant or highly wrought as Webster's "Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle; she died young," and the answer, "I think not so: her infelicity Seemed to have years too many," or so subtle in its suggestion, sense echoing back to primeval terrors and despairs, as this from Macbeth: "Stones have been known to move and trees to speak; Augurs and understood relations have

His work is always plain and easily understood; he had a fine faculty for narration, and the vigorous rapidity and point of his style enabled him to sketch a character or sum up a dialectical position very surely and effectively.

The spirit of the revolution, as it was understood in France and in Europe, had to wait for Shelley for its complete expression.

A pure love of change, acting according to some law of contrast as yet imperfectly understood, especially characterises civilised man.

It must be understood that the second of the two ideas was never derived from the first, but always directly from the original object.

It will of course be understood that I make no absurd profession of being able by these very few experiments to lay down statistical constants of universal application, but that my principal object is to show that a large class of mental phenomena, that have hitherto been too vague to lay hold of, admit of being caught by the firm grip of genuine statistical inquiry.

Whenever he saw it again he would betray his terror by some instinctive gesture, which would be seen and understood by others, and so instruction in distrusting the fly appears to spread.

It will be easily understood that these difficulties, which are so formidable in the case of plants and animals, which we can mate as we please and destroy when we please, would make the maintenance of a highly-selected breed of men an impossibility.

He understood nothing but Hindustani....

I didn't know until years later that none of them understood anything I said because I had cried so hard, but I thought they did and that was what counted.

I have often understood that there is a great deal of difference in respect of color, and I have seen it in this Court.

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