After we had explained to him who we were, and answered such inquiries as he chose to make: "Sir," said I, through the Brahmin, who acted as interpreter, "I have heard much of your country, and I find, on seeing it, that it exceeds report, in the order, comfort, contentment, and abundance of the people.

| | | | "The principle may be explained in a lineit is first | | learning the language, and then studying the grammar, and | | then learning (or trying to learn) the language.

An apple John is usually explained as being a kind of apple said to keep two years and to be in perfection when shrivelled and withered, cf. 2 Henry IV, ii, IV, and the context.

"Captain Cranster might have been found out too lateafter the wedding," Mary explained with a smile.

He realized the impossibility of explaining by scientific methods the supernatural.

I explained at considerable length that my view did not concern the general subject, on which I had scarcely thought, so much as the individual mode of management of my father's estate.

Right and left of it are other similar glens, parted from it by long narrow ridges: these also must be explained on the same hypothesis; but they cannot.

If we tell him, he'll be bound to tell the police, to explain about those footmarks; and when it comes out that we got into the house, I should think we are pretty certain to be charged with having stolen the coins.

All this is to be explained without the supposition of conscious trickery or dishonesty on the part of Mohammed.

Why no leave to England could be granted except in special cases, was cogently explained from time to time during the summer in circulars written by Staff officers of high rank, who had frequent opportunities of informing themselves of the realities of the situation, while visiting London.

Another voice was kind enough to explain for our encouragement that the traveller found in a place exactly what he brought there, and that romance was a personal gift, all in the personal point of view.

"For Arthur," she explained under her breath.

But even though the livery stable happenings as related by Bertie gave Mrs. Crocks many avenues of information, all of her prescience could not be explained through that or any other human agency.

Ain't I been explaining of it all in words of one syllable?

Of Zee, (which has also been called Zed, Zad, Izzard, Uzzard, Izzet, and Iz,)[90] he says, "Its common name is izzard, which Dr. Johnson explains into s hard; if, however, this is the meaning, it is a gross misnomer; for the z is not the hard, but the soft s; but as it has a less sharp, and therefore not so audible a sound, it is not impossible but it may mean s surd.

"It is more difficult to explain than the first of the story," replied the boy, thoughtfully gazing through the window; "perhaps because I do not understand it so well.

"He's a foreigner, you know," he explained over his shoulder to the boys.

Oh, cruel, cowardly, not to have said one wordnot one word to explain allbut

EXERCISES 1. Name anything outside of school work that you have been called upon to explain during the last week or two.

Blanes explained like a knight-errant the impulse that had called him to the war.

You go round, dear, and I'll explain against you come home.

"Such licenses may be explained among what are usually termed Figures.

I explained above how little prepared we shall be to suffer martyrdom, if we be not armed with the divine promises.

By this plan gold is the standard price unit, while silver continues to be used all but exclusively as the material in circulation, its amount being controlled and its value regulated on principles to be explained below under coinage, seigniorage, and foreign exchange.

Both the nature and the cause of their defects are in some degree explained near the close of the tenth chapter of my Introduction.