He had meant to escape from the house at dead of night and, under an assumed name, work his passage out to Australia--a land which had always made strong appeal to his imagination.
Fool, he had meant to drain off-hand, at one coarse draught, the delicate wine of death.
Nor had she dared, for fear of disappointment, to ask him just what he had meant.
He had meant to break it to her gently, but now he blurted it out.
Shelton wriggled; he had meant to say it was not hot enough.
Shelton perceived that he had meant to add, "but with the heart, the lungs, the liver.
If he had meant to bring the subject prematurely to a close, he could not have done it more effectually.
He had meant to go away to-day, but clung to this tie in the house as the last and only thing left to him.
He had meant to make her understand that had Francesco been so minded, he had no need to stoop to such an act as this that she imputed to him.
He had meant to add the announcement of Francesco's banishment from Babbiano and his notorious unwillingness to mount his cousin's throne.
He had meant to have been strong, and he had, as he knew, been very weak.
He would be able to assure her when he went up to dress for dinner, that he had meant no harm.
But for the grace of God I might have been Mr. Jason and he Mr. Paret: undoubtedly that was what he had meant to imply.
This, then, was what he had meant by newspapers, and why he had come to her!
And Hugo, getting to his feet, cried out to me not to hurt Marse Philip, that he had meant no harm.
Indeed, the man's face had struck me so forcibly that I was surprised out of an inquiry which I had meant to make of him, namely, how far we were from the Saint-Gre plantation.
Do you think I should have sent for you if I had meant--that!
He had meant to discourage her--head her off, he called it to himself.
He had meant to tell her that he had come on horseback, but she had forestalled him.
It was not at all what he had meant to say, any more than this was the meeting he had dreamed about.
She had not had time to prepare the little bitter barbs she had meant to fling against the girl's heart, and is now slightly taken aback.
She feels as if she hates poor Evans, and yet of course he had meant nothing.
Osborn frowned, for he had meant to go fishing and it was a morning when the big, shy trout would rise.
It was a relief to Kit that she had gone; he had meant to keep her out of the quarrel and now he was ready to talk to Osborn.
He had meant to imply something like this, but Bell was too blunt.
He had meant to go out, but had no particular object and the streets were hot; besides, after the quiet country, he liked the bustle in the hall.
I had meant to resign, but Thorn could not take the post, Sir George is away, and a well-known local man is needed to give the thing a proper start.
He had meant to travel with us as far as Beni Hasan, our first stop, and return to Cairo by donkey and train, but had changed his intention and was going off at once--I thought I could guess why.
Yet I guessed what he had meant to say, and why he had stopped.
The others take his word, meekly, but she persists, and Anthony agrees to give her the camel he had meant to ride, the one supposed to be the most spirited.
I had meant to follow Mrs. East's advice and propose to Miss Gilder, I explained, but Monny had not found my buried love-letter.
Be still, you--" He stopped for the word, and that saved him from the outrage he had meant to pay her back with.
In her eyes the pity was changing to admiration; his confession which he had meant to be so abject had kindled her fancy like a boastful tale.
Harker asking if he had meant what he had said a year ago, and if he'd care to exchange his Rathdale practice for his old practice in Leeds.
For it was there, at the turn of the road, below the arches, that he had meant to say what he had not said the other night.
That was not saying there had never been anything between them, but Mary knew what he had meant.
He had meant to leave early, but it was as easy to stay as to go; besides, he felt the stirring of a curiosity to see what the closing hour of such an occasion might be like.
Abner had not looked for this; a mere call was as far as hehad meant to go.
What hehad meant to do, his dreams and altruisms, they would never surmise.
I had meant to write something in the nature of a defen--an explanation, Peter.
It reminded Peter of the new dress he had meant to get his mother, and of the modish suit which at that moment molded his own shoulders and waist.
I had meant to be a Meriton--I saw I'd better go home and study law.
He had meant to go on board the steamer immediately after dinner; but a sudden vision of introspective hours in a silent cabin made him call for the evening paper and run his eye over the list of theatres.
I had meant to turn the talk to public affairs, but it slipped toward books and art, and I was faintly aware of its being kept there without undue pressure.
I believe I had meant to explain, to accuse myself, to shout out my agony of soul; but I saw the uselessness of it.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "had meant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
