He is a kind boy and the parrot will mean far more to him than to my little spoiled girls.
Ernest Morton, you mean thing--tell me this minute or I'll tickle you.
Chicken Little had been perfectly willing to ask God to forgive her for she felt rather mean about spoiling the hair ribbons herself, but this awful sentence of separation from the girls decidedly lessened her penitence.
You mean things--you've got to put those cookies right back!
I didn't mean a railroad station--I meant that if the Lord intended Alice to be a servant she should try to be contented.
I guess I won't be mean if she doesn't get the prize," she said to herself.
You mean he had paid the debt, but carelessly left those valuable papers in the store safe supposing you were an honest man!
You're just as mean as you can be--I always tell you things.
I could not mean to kill them in cold blood--I was an Englishman.
I let them go on until they had exhausted themselves with cries and tears and entreaties, and then I said, 'I do not mean to kill you yet, but that you may feel certain of your end, see this man die.
A decent place in the Honours List would mean a probability, a prize would mean a certainty, of a comfortable income for life; and if I was to work, that infernal noise must stop.
I mean that it is in your power to do me an inestimable service; to soften my disgrace, and give me, in fact, another chance with the powers that be.
If you mean Miss Ormerod," I answered, "perhaps I might explain.
What wilt thou do, Semyonitch--dost mean to go as carrier again?
Mean as Naum is in his triumph, repulsive as is landed-proprietress Elizaveta Prokhorovna with her cowardly and hypocritical greed, the story leaves on the reader a soothing impression.
Gold would mean wealth, but that we have in the wheat; besides the yellow of the wheat would not show well on the gold background, while on white or silver the contrast is strong and the appearance agreeable.
And, indeed, whereas the soldiers and Lamas treated me with brutality and took every mean advantage that they could, this officer was alone in showing some deference to me and some appreciation of my behaviour.
Would they mean the same if they were on the left-hand side?
This sign was understood tomean bear, as that for dog is different among the Utes, i.
Pass the hand before the face to mean ugliness, at the same time grinning and extending the fingers like claws.
Others say that the last word means "the left hand," so that the whole name would mean "the shining feathered left hand.
This Time he showed but small Contrition, And gloried in his mean Condition.
And so, when she I mean came hither, One day that need for letters ceased, She brought this with her!
All about the Hull affair and the Lennard affair, I took that to mean from your account," remarked Appleyard.
All correct there, Mr. Allerdyke, too--I mean as regards all that Fullaway told you.
I wanted to tell you that amongst all these things there is nothing that establishes the woman's identity--I mean in the way of papers or anything of that sort.
Now those last four words, Mr. Allerdyke, if they mean anything at all, mean that your cousin was bringing these valuable jewels with him; had them on him when he cabled from Christiania.
You mean a joint reward for the detection of the murderer and the recovery of the jewels?
Now, of course, an inquiry or two of the usual sort would satisfy you about Fullaway--I mean as a business man.
Why--why--you don't mean to say that box has my pearls in it?
But you don't mean to say that you travelled all the way to Edinburgh to hand me that!
What I mean sir, is this--do you want to keep any of this recently acquired knowledge to yourself?
When she nobly offers "tuition for all strictly in advance," she does not mean "instruction for all in advance-payment for it later.
Interchanged in any way you please it cannot be made to mean anything different from what it means when put in any other way.
The word "from" seems to be intended to mean "on account of.
One verdict was worded as follows: "When Christ answered the rich young man and said for him to give to the poor all he possessed or he could not gain everlasting life, He did not mean it in the literal sense.
However, it seems to at least mean "God inspired me," if nothing more.
In themean time, would the Scientist kill off a good many patients?
I mean him no discourtesy, and I am not charging--nor even imagining--that he is insaner than the rest of the human race.
I do not mean that that was exactly the formula used, but that it doubtless contains the spirit of it.
By it we may become involuntary hypocrites, uttering desires which are not real, and consoling ourselves in the midst of sin, with the recollection that we have prayed over it--or mean to ask forgiveness at some later day.
Praying for humility, with whatever fervency of expression, does not always mean a desire for it.
I hope the act of accusation against Chabot has been published in England, for the benefit of your English patriots: I do not mean by way of warning, but example.
The reader may compare the death of Robespierre with that of Rienzi; but if the people of Rome revenged the tyranny of the Tribune, they were neither so mean nor so ferocious as the Parisians.
A score of orators harangue them daily on their courage, while they are over-awed by despots as mean as themselves and whom they continue to reinstal at the stated period with clamorous approbation.
The whole of what is called the revolution of the 10th of August may very justly be ascribed to the municipality of Paris--I mean the active part of it.
In the mean while it was openly proposed to concentrate still more the functions of government.
And do you mean to say that you haven't written yet?
I suppose you mean to imply that I've taken the box," I rejoined.
In the mean time the box with the hole in the canvas had been lost.
We don't mean to enjoy ourselves till we get down to the lake of Como," said Mr. Greene.
And do you mean to say that I am to be robbed of my jewels and no efforts made for redress?
Mr. Greene, in the mean time, well knowing the passage for his hand, had dived down to the very bottom of the box, and seized hold of a small canvas bag.
Do youmean to allow that vast amount of property to be lost without an effort?
In the mean time the landlady and the three daughters had clustered round Mrs. Greene, administering to her all manner of Italian consolation.
Stay, thou, who buildest wonder of things mean (More truly so they're seen).
I stare back as they vanish in a swarm, Seeming how purposeless, how mean and vain, Till creeping joy and brief alarm Are gone and prick me not again.
They were suffered to remain outside the gates of Oxford in a cold and wet day for several hours, and then conducted by a guard, more like prisoners than ambassadors, to a very mean inn.
Marlborough repelled the mean attempt to steal his victory with contempt, and spoke some homely truths to the Prince.
I mean lawful authority, for there are many unlawful authorities in the world--thieves and robbers by the highways.
You meanguilty of speaking to a tumultuous assembly.
The army determined to purge the Parliament of all those who were weak enough or mischievous enough to consent to the return of the king on his own promises, which had long ceased to mean anything but deceit.
This was at once felt to mean toleration to the Catholics as well as the Nonconformists, and was received with silent repugnance.
But the Tories did not mean to let it pass without a sharp attack.
How to Chop Wood= Trailing and camping both mean wood-chopping to some extent for shelters, fires, etc.
If you should lose the trail and reach it again you will know to a certainty which direction to take, for two blazes mean camp on this side; one blaze, away from camp on this side.
Remember that a snake-bite is seldom fatal, and that a swollen arm or leg does not mean that the case is hopeless.
The mean is 7' 14" to the east of the lunars; but on using rates equally accelerated from those at Port Jackson to the above at Upper Head, and commencing the acceleration on Aug.
The errors of the time keepers frommean Greenwich time, at noon there Sept.
Lieutenant Fowler was immediately sent away in the whale boat, to search for the lost cutter; and in the mean time we weighed with the afternoon's flood, to get through the passage.
The apparent error of 24½' in the first longitude, is greater than should exist in the mean result of six sets of distances.
Mean dip of the south end of the needle, observed upon the west point of Sweers' Island, 44° 27'.
Of the three proverbial desiderata, it is as easy to be healthy as to be wealthy, and much easier than to be wise, except so far as health and wisdom mean the same thing.
Chance has thrown together at the table with me a number of persons who are worth studying, and I meannot only to look on them, but, if I can, through them.
In the mean while, thirty or forty civilians had reached the city from the camp, and were quartered, like the Commissioners, in their own vehicles.
Oh, you mean we ought rather to attend to our own faults than those of others?
But in the boys present condition I dare not attempt it; it wouldmean certain failure.
I mean the courage that will tell the truth, even when the truth is not pleasant, and when you may get laughed at for telling it, and which will own up to a fault rather than try to hide it.
What did Ronald mean at breakfast by saying that you had told him about Aunt Dora’s invitation, Vivian?
It’s not a very big one,’ said one lad, with rather a mean desire to depreciate a present which he had wished for, but which had not fallen to his lot.
You did not mean to conceal anything, so you cannot blame yourselves; but remember it is always better to be open and frank, for you never know what mischief may follow if you try to hush a matter up.
To raise a cry of warning, he felt sure, would mean his instant death; and yet, should he remain silent if he was asked any questions concerning his companions he might also get into trouble.
Do youmean to tell me," exclaimed General Steinbach, "that you risked your lives to save that of an enemy?
I mean you no harm, and, if you do as I say, you will be all right.
He realized that a slip would probably mean death, and in spite of the fact that he realized the necessity for haste, descended slowly.
Just follow me; and if you mean what you say, warning shall be given at once.
This, it was taken, would mean that Germany would either have to retreat within her own borders into East Prussia, or else that troops would have to be dispatched from the west to reënforce those in the east.
But," continued Duval, "there nevertheless will be work for some of us that will mean additional gold for all.
What do you mean by chasing an American citizen down the road?
I don't mean by this that Smalley is a dacoit in disguise, but that they are both bigoted representatives of religion, and each believes the other to be the fiend himself.
My name means red diamond, but it ought to mean a clod," laughed Moung Sen.
I only mean that those influences levied a tax of a considerable per cent.
In this I do not mean that you shall go off to St. Louis, or the lead mines in California, but I mean for you to go at it for the best wages you can get close at home in Coles County.
In the mean time Miss Todd appears to have regained her self-possession and calmly awaited the will of the fates who were to restore relations with her sensitive and remorseful lover.
We were both discouraged and made up our minds that the President did not meanto appoint Mr. Chase.
In the mean time Mr. Chase was appealing to his friends for support and endorsement and prophesying disasters for the government unless his appointment was made.
He was greatly gratified by the evidence of his popularity, and was confident that if he could extend his acquaintance through the county he would be successful at the next election; but how was he to get a living in the mean time?
In the mean time Mr. Douglas was speaking in other sections of the State, but came to Springfield to attend the State Agricultural Fair, and, being a United States Senator and a political idol, was of course a great attraction.
And, once here, what could he mean by prowling like that, instead of coming directly to the cabin?
Many years later, when I repeated it to Mrs. Diana Bullitt Kearny, she remarked in her characteristic manner: "He was mean enough not to even allow her the satisfaction of a runaway marriage.
I do not mean his official place, but his position as the recognized leader and exponent of scientific interests at the National Capital.
Kneeland, pray what do you mean By such a fat book on the subject of Lien?
The British officer who had proposed the toast to Madison immediately sprang to his feet and with much indignation inquired: "Do you mean to insult me, sir?
Mrs. Ricketts was no mean philanthropist in her way and a certain wag once wrote-- Here comes Mrs. Ricketts With a pocketful of tickets.
The atoms have various vibrations, the extent of which is called the mean free path of vibration; greatest in hydrogen and least in the densest element.
The recognition of this fact has been so thoroughly appreciated by thoughtful people as to have opened up the question as to what these human limitations may mean and to what degree they may extend.
It is not merely a question of the price of a crystal or a mirror, the sacrifice of time, the exercise of patience: it may mean something much more than this.
They usually mean that one more hobo or Gay-Cat has "cashed in" and is "bound out.
They may mean disease, of course, but more frequently good health, and in my case it was decidedly the latter.
I had never met any one of the sort before, but I found myself almost instantly accepting him as one of the people who were to mean something to me.
In saying that he built it, I mean that he knew how to get men to help him build it.
I mean sometime to pick up my old arithmetic again and see whether maturer years may have given me a clearer insight into the examples and problems that formerly gave me so much trouble.
I merelymean that I got from my parents a wonderful constitution.
I suppose, however, that the poor ignoramus was simply ruffled because he had shown to the Herberge that he did not know the difference between an Austrian and an American pass, and did not mean any real insult.
In saying that she succumbed to the three saucerfuls, I merely mean that she knew when she had had enough.
Yet the Road will probably be with us, for better or for worse, after the soothing farms and disciplinary sanatoriums have dwindled away; I mean such as may be patronized, say, in the next thousand years or so.
And they all believed that when this super-gigantic computer was located amid the mountains of surplus equipment that was the planet's sole source of revenue, it would mean Utopia for everyone.
Except for the bridge and the gun turrets, almost the whole ship could be opened; she had been designed to land in the middle of a battle and deliver ammunition when seconds could mean the difference between life and death.
I mean a contragravity ship, a freighter; first, to move this stuff out of here, and then to move the stuff out of Force Command.
