846 Verbs to Use for the Word meaning

Nor had I told it now, But that your Ladyship may find some speedy means to draw him from this desperate Condition.

They understood our meaning, and started on the trail, with a loud and cheerful cry.

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.

In 1858 the gravity of the situation caused the French Academy of Sciences to appoint Commissioners, of whom a distinguished naturalist, M. de Quatrefages, was one, to inquire into the nature of this disease, and, if possible, to devise some means of staying the plague.

I am sorry that it does not, since to maintain This Gallantry, 'tis said you use base means, Below a Gentleman.

"Well, I rather think I have," coolly replied the stranger, whose words conveyed a double meaning, as we soon learned.

In 1734 a council was held at Albany at the instance of the Crown to provide the means for the defence against France in Canada, and it was then that Franklin submitted the first concrete form for a union of the colonies into a permanent alliance.

Neither Thursday nor Hetty allowed a word to escape concerning the placing of the bomb in the Tribune office, but the explosion was public knowledge and many were bothering their heads to explain its meaning.

Chance, however, soon afforded me the means of gratifying it.

" Scholars will tell you that the words "take no thought" do not exactly express our Lord's meaning in this text.

Those were the early days of Methodism, when Whitefield and Wesley were preaching the Gospel, and giving it a new meaning to the multitude.

"They seemed to have an idea, thoughto account for the problem of the locked doorthat thieves might have got into the house with the object of making a haul in the bedrooms while every one's attention was engaged down below, have secreted themselves in the tower, been surprised by Henshaw, and, to save themselves, have taken the only effectual means of silencing him, poor fellow.

It is our object to make this background as rich and full and orderly as possible, so that whatever is brought to the focus of consciousness shall be set in a relational background, which shall give it meaning; and so that our pupils may be able to feel the truth which Browning puts into the mouth of Fra Lippo Lippi: This world's no blot for us Nor blank; it means intensely and means good: To find its meaning is my meat and drink.

If a widow, or any number of widows, really possess the means of realizing "happy results" with a "limited number of gentlemen," they should either remove the limitation themselves, or make known the secret to those who would be less sparing of the joys which it is capable of communicating.

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.

But now he must seek means to evade the dogs.

"Now, Dick, there's no time to ask the meaning of your miraculous doings.

" Fan Ch'i did not quite grasp his meaning.

But he opened his eyes, and seemed to read at a glance the meaning of Orme's set face.

He seemed to comprehend my meaning.

The German officer overheard this remark, although he perhaps did not catch the exact meaning.

Between these two comes what Froebel called the Transition or Connecting Class, in which the child learns the meaning of the signs which stand for speech, and those which make calculation less arduous for weak memories.

But at the very moment in which he was honored by royal felicitations, several chieftains, indignant at the elevation of a black slave, employed every means to prevent his marriage with Ibla, and to force him to undertake enterprises which would prove fatal to him.

This was the view, "that believers had nothing to do with ordinanceswere not subject to themand ought to be still; that they ought to leave off the means of grace, and not go to church; not to communicate; not to search the Scriptures; not to use private prayer till they had living faith; and to be still till they had it."

If indeed Nature thus works by illusions and justifies the lying means by the benevolent end, it is hard to believe in a moral government of the universe, or to hope that an "absolute morality"righteousness for its own sakewill be the outcome of such disreputable methods.

846 Verbs to Use for the Word  meaning