Evidently, some of the brutes were feeling with their claw-hands, about the door, to discover whether there were any means of ingress.

And so the days pass on, and I am still filled with a wonder to know the meaning of all that I saw on that memorable night.

"What do I mean by brittle?

But every word of that prayer was meant for the uplifting of my heart.

As for you, an American boy, why don't you go to h I mean to the West. Go West, young man!

He smoothed her cold forehead, and tried to comfort her by every means in his power.

'There is often a high meaning in childish play,' said Froebel.

Carleton's reconnaissance convinced him that he could have little chance of reducing it quickly, if at all, with the means at hand, especially as the Americans had supplies close by at Lake George, while he was now a hundred miles south of his base.

But, as I stood there, it came to me that there was sense and meaning to all those swinish noises.

All later editions 'shrivel'd', which is by no means as good.

Points of this kind, which the handwriting of Dickens illustrates so well, have a deeper meaning for the observant than for the casual reader of a magazine article; they indicate that these little human acts, which have been so long overlooked by intelligent men, do really give us valuable data for the study of mind by means of written-gesture.

And the publication, in 1864, of M. Van Beneden's memoir on the Miocene and Pliocene Squalodon, furnished much better means than anatomists previously possessed of fitting in another link of the chain which connects the existing Cetacea with Zeuglodon.

Thatthat's what I mean about having no shame.

Some men eat too much; some drink too much; some sleep too much; some waste their vital energies in sensual indulgence, while all have some vicious habit (I mean with reference to the preservation of life), known or unknown to the world, which, sooner or later, undermines the constitution, and helps on the work of dilapidation.

As he greeted the two strangers, and said simply that he had just arrived, himself, by way of the Anvik portage, the Colonel felt that he must have meant from New York or from Paris instead of the words he added, "from St. Michael's.

His notes are short and useful to those who, having studied the psalms, can recall their meaning by a few brief hints.

" "Oh, I mean on those long narrow snow-shoes that make you go so fast you always trip up!

What a fool I have been not to surmise what this confounded pain meant between my shoulders!

No one can begin to understand what modern war means without some personal acquaintance with shell-shock cases.

" "Here you perceive that the closing sentence of the same paragraph, and which refers directly to the point at issue, is displaced, made to appear as belonging to a separate paragraph, and as conveying a different meaning from what the author has actually expressed.

It is all a phantasmagoria to mewith no more meaning than a nightmare.

I think it possible however that Shelley intended, his phrase to be accepted with the same meaning as Vergil's'happier they, supposing they had known their happiness.'

When he finally replied his words came forth so swiftly I could scarcely grasp their meaning with my slight knowledge of the tongue.

Thus, though neither of them had anticipated such a bolt from the blue, both Carleton and Cramahe had taken all the reasonable means within their most restricted power to provide against unforeseen contingencies.

There is a wide difference in the method of rendering and meaning between the civilian salute as used by friends in passing, or by servants to their employers, and the MILITARY SALUTE, the symbol and sign of the military profession.