Our followers, who had now entered the vessel, kept within hearing of my remarks; but, evidently aware that they were there on sufferance, asked no questions, and made their comments in a tone too low to allow me to understand their purport.

Had I known their purport, I doubt whether even Eveena's persuasion and the Autocrat's power together could have induced me to sign them.

The title sufficiently explains its purport; it is exquisitely touching and pathetic.

With these two facts in mind, we need not (unless we are experts in mechanics, physics, statical electricity, or the sewing-machine) go to the trouble of committing the special senses of tension; for should occasion bid, we canfrom our position at the heart of the wordeasily grasp their rough purport.

" Mrs. Stevens did not exactly catch the purport of the words uttered by Mr. Morton; and, therefore, when she opened the door, and her husband, with his well-blacked face, stalked into the entry, she could not repress a scream of fright at the hideous figure he presented.

I could not hear what was said during the brief conversation; but it was easy to guess the purport when Jacob came toward me with sparkling eyes.

Now if I could only find out what it is!that would be something new in science,a discovery worth knowing,to be able to hear or feel the purport of a telegraphic message, simply by touching the wire along which it runs!

Without further delay the column advanced down the hill; and as soon as Captain Johnston had struck the plain with his twelve dragoons, having mistaken the purport of an order from the General, he uttered a yell, and, without waiting for the support of the main body, dashed on the heavy ranks of the enemy, falling a victim of his own indiscretion.

" When, upon his return to the camp, Harry told his friends the purport of the interview between himself and Argyll, of Alan Campbell being put under arrest and the earl openly reproved by the king, Donald Leslie raised his hands in despair.

Jack's quick ears, consequently, gathered the purport of the brief order.

"The 'Book of Odes' contains three hundred pieces, but one expression in it may be taken as covering the purport of all, viz.,

What that advice had been he would not then say; it was lodged in the breast of his Majesty, nor would he declare the purport of it without the royal consent, or till he saw a proper occasion.

It will be enough, therefore, if I describe its general purport, and how it affected the political and social life of that century upon which we are now entering.

I do not value the present the less, for not being quite able to detect its purport.

He could hear the voice of the landlord inside, grumbling and growling, to what purport he couldn't determine.

Or does he mean to disclaim their purport?]

Philosophy wishes to discover the substantial purport, the real side of the divine idea, and to justify the so much despised reality of things; for Reason is the comprehension of the divine work.

They were talking earnestly, but Maini could not distinguish the purport of the conversation.

The lady paused; she had effected the professed purport of her visit; she ought now to have retired, and Cadurcis would most willingly have opened the door for her, and bowed her out of his apartment.

After eliciting the exact purport of the message I desired to send, and meditating for some moments, she wrote and read out to me words literally translated as follows: "The rich aviary my flower-bird thought over full.

The citations in the text express the purport of what Blackmore had written in his then unpublished but expected work, but do not quote from it literally.

The preparatory labors had been conducted without combination, the elections could not be simultaneous; no powerful and dominant mind directed that bewildered mass of ignorant electors, exercising for the first time, under such critical circumstances, a right of which they did not know the extent and did not foresee the purport.

Some similar but trivial query, whose purport I have now forgotten, was addressed by the junior of the Chiefs to Eveena; and I was struck by the patient courtesy with which he waited till, after two or three efforts, she sufficiently recovered her self-possession to understand and her voice to answer.

The opinion of the court was long, but a single paragraph gives its purport: "The first rule of justice is to preserve to every one what belongs to him: this rule consists, not only in preserving the rights of property, but still more in preserving those belonging to the person, which arise from the prerogative of birth and of position....

And in this letter I enclosed a second, addressed to Mr. Godwin, having the same purport, which I prayed Don Sanchez to send on with all expedition, if Moll were not with him.