He will learn how to weigh them with precision, and so become an expert in the use of that precious instrument which is meant not only to express valuable thought, but to preserve it as well.
If Nature had meant man to think, she would not have given him ears; or, at any rate, she would have furnished them with airtight flaps, such as are the enviable possession of the bat.
This symbol was meant to keep the thought constantly before my mind.
It might be thought, perhaps, that remarks which were meant to apply to the German language would have but little bearing upon one so different from it as English.
This sentence in the original is obviously meant to illustrate the fault of which it speaks.
It was a time of suspense for all the soldiers, as they knew that the least detail of dress or equipment lacking or misplaced meant a visit to the guardhouse.
There were no footprints to be seen, but that meant nothing, for the snow covered up all tracks almost as soon as they were made.
I meant to tell you fellows, but the fight with the rats put it out of my mind.
They meant the overthrow of law and order, a program of blood and massacre.
Maybe some of these red spots are meant to indicate meeting places of the conspirators," suggested Frank.
Of a certainty it meant the ruin of British diplomacy, if not complete disaster to the British Empire.
There had been ample time since he had left Lady Kathleen to reason out what she meant by the words that, as she preferred death to dishonour, her death-warrant had been sealed.
As he did so Melun rose angrily to his feet, and, as though he had never known Westerham in his life before, demanded what he meantby the intrusion.
The way was smooth for asking Kathleen the question the answer to which meant so much to her.
It is meant in all sincerity," said the baronet, "because I am following out my own particular ideas, and I know that you have neither the capacity nor yet the opportunity of saying me nay.
Whatever they may have been to you," he continued, "the last few days have meant much to me.
I meant nothing at all except that, in spite of everything, you must make it convenient to have me included among the guests.
Outwardly he was encouraging Lady Kathleen to brace herself for the sacrifice which appeared inevitable, but he had in reality resolved upon another course, even though it meant for him suicide or the gallows.
None," said the detective, with what was meantto be a most significant air.
And the secret of the whim he meant to follow lay, he knew, within the kit-bag which he had found Captain Melun ransacking.
For the sake of the uninitiated and curious, I think I had better here describe what is meant by trance mediumship.
But I told them I had got my bargain, and I meant to stick by it.
The discovery, interesting in itself, meant nothing to Amy at the moment.
What he meant to say does not matter, since the discovery that Amy was in tears resulted in the inquiry, "What are you crying for, hey?
You know that since that attack of inflammatory rheumatism she hasn't walked--" "But I meant anything new.
I only meantshe wouldn't seem particularly out of place in a tobacco shop.
He had accused her of lying, and that meant all was over between them.
You understand when I said hold your tongues, I meant it.
Peggy, do you realize what it would have meant if we had let that poem of Ida's go in?
But whatever the consequences, she meantto recover her property.
Never in her life had popularity meant as much to her as now.
Nelson came almost every evening to pour into her attentive ears the story of his hopes and ambitions, and Ruth listened with the happy confidence that her approval meant more to him than to any one in the world.
And that was how it happened that, though all the children meant to tell their mother about the Sand-fairy, somehow or other she never got to know.
It was the way people talked in historical romances for the young, he knew, and it was evidently not meant for rudeness.
Anthea had meant to say that--and she had not wanted to say it before the others.
It was partly with joy that she cried, because she had done what she meantto do.
There must have been heaps and heaps of cold meat left over," said Anthea, who meant to be a good housekeeper some day.
In some instances, this meant overcrowding so serious as to threaten morals and health.
If Hilda did not want ME, I wanted Hilda; and, being a man, I meant to find her.
A sick ox, a rattling tile on the roof, meantmore to their lives than war in Europe.
Sebastian; and when she met you at my brother Hugo's, it was a preconcerted arrangement; she asked to sit next you, and meant to induce you to use your influence on her behalf with the Professor.
Either, then, I concluded, Hilda meant to sail on Saturday by the Castle line for South Africa, or else on Sunday by North German Lloyd for some part of America.
Are you not taking it for granted that, if he meant suicide, he would blow his brains out in his own house?
This is not meant to say that she looked beautiful.
Livia put the question, she put it twice rather sternly, and the girl came out with: 'Oh, he meant it!
I meant to run for it, and elude the voodoos in the thick forest, so soon as the laden Robert and Carlos should have a good start.
He meant this time to see where Duran went for his gold.
They meant to risk discovery, and land with the boat on that little island, though under cover of night.
I had my thoughts much on our friends on board the Pearl; wondered when they had got my note, and if they had finally picked out the words I had meantfor their understanding; and so, if they had acted on them.
She meant it for a question, though she gave it the form of an accusation.
They evidently were meant to be crossed, though now they lay almost parallel, doubtless due to the giving way of some rusty support.
It was decided to make it appear to Duran that we meant to remain, waiting for the return of the boys.
I meantthey should not discover the manner of my escape from the cell.
We were somewhat disturbed by that movement of Duran's, feeling that it meant some new trouble to meet.
He meant we two should have a little of the kind of sport Marat and Norris were revelling in.
Carlos assured us that it was always this way he went when he meant to conceal his movements.
That man cannot want to kill Paredes merely to rob him; it is plain that the blow is meant for the Marquis.
It is the same case with me, and as I know no better preservative against the night cold than mezcal, that is why I meant to empty the bottle before mounting.
Would I use my mother's ring for this ceremony if I meant it to be a fraud--if I meant to take advantage of it to do an injury to my beloved one?
God knows, Beatrice, that I meantnever to take advantage of your belief that we were married.
I must confess that, now and again, I wondered what Mr. Airey meant by placing himself so frequently by my side.
He meant the Legitimate Theatre to be a monument to the interest he takes in Shakespeare, and so it would have been, if the people had only attended properly, as they should have done.
I wrote a telegram last evening, telling you that I meant to do it, but it appears that the office at Netherford closes at six, so it could not be sent.
Archie was off, having abandoned as futile his well-meant attempts to balance the quill on the toe first of one boot, then of the other.
You meant all along to give me this delightful surprise.
It did not please her that, instead of bemoaning his own loss, he should be feeling a contempt for her duplicity--that he should use her to cure his passion, when she meant to wound him still deeper.
Jack couldn't help laughing; but they were now among the little crush that generally gathers in the vestibule of a theatre, and whatever he meant to say was cut in two by a downright hearty salutation from some third party.
David looked up with a wonderful light on his face; perhaps it meant more to him than anyone else understood.
Eleanor Bethune I meant to know just as soon as possible.
Treaties aremeant to be torn in two And wars are made to be fought anew.
If he had read the Preface he would know that it meant a SHUNT.
To the end of the book indeed I was uncertain whether such occasional lapses were meant to illumine the character of the supposed speaker or were unintentional.
The rise and fall of the barometermeant nothing more than a variation in the strength of the polar current.
By an educated woman is meant a woman who has been taught the usual curriculum of a lady in cultivated circles.
How urgent all the business of this afternoon and evening has been, and yet what it meant who could say?
Meant to have come to see you several times' (has not called for nine months), 'but I have so many engagements.
Brian wished he could know what the old man had meant to choose from the cabinet.
A twitch of the man's hand was probablymeant to warn her to be quiet.
He peered into the gloom of the auditorium, fixed his eyes on the oblong of blacker shadow that was the door he meant to use, but it told him nothing.
I meantto horse-whip you, and I will--within an inch of your life, if you do not make an ample apology.
Hall was mindful of this, and with the mistaken, but well-meant importunity of gratitude, begged her to occupy a more conspicuous post.
If I were sure that last word meant fool, I would knock him down.
Her mien bespoke no ordinary soul; and the inuendoes of Josephine, meant to deter him from prosecuting it, stimulated his desire.
It was merely a sailboat to her city eyes, and her good lines and good management meant nothing.
She was in no mood for self-analysis, however, because that meant the renewal of the pain and deep disappointment as to Martin which was her one object to hide and to forget.
Good God, if only she could understand a little of what she meant to him, and how he craved and pined for her.
The boy couldn't believe that she meant what she implied but would have bitten off his tongue rather than put a direct question.
Her plan was cut and dried in her mind, and she had been killing time with all the impatience and throbbing of nerves of one who had brought herself up to a crisis which meant either success and joy, or failure and a drab world.
Why continue mechanically to live when living meantwaiting for death?
But it meant dragging Joan into open discussion, and that was all against his creed.
Love had been and would remain the one big thing in her own life, the only thing that mattered, and so she could understand, even as she suffered, what this Great Emotion meant to Gilbert.
Can you imagine the fit the receiving teller at my little old bank'll throw when I slip this across as if it meant nothing to me?
The man to whom she was not even tied meant as little to her as the girl he had foolishly married meant or would ever mean to him.
She had meant to be kind and pay something of her debt to this man, and it was a vulgar trap, whatever he said in excuse.
Devon was only a short drive from Easthampton, and that meant the possibility of seeing and speaking to Joan.
She didn't understand what it meant to a boy of Martin's type to cherish ideals and struggle to live up to a standard that had been set for him by his father.
But with the morrow's dawn they espied horsemen at a certain point across the river, armed cap-a-pie, as if they meant to dispute the passage.
It meantbeing in a hostile country, confronted by countless cavalry, legions of light infantry.
On the one hand it was plain that the idea of crossing over to Asia in the face of this man with his ships of war, who meant to bar the passage, was too dangerous.
For the present then they retired as if they meant to do battle for the spoils.
Thus he stole upon it in the dead of night, and meant to sack it without saying a word to any of us.
Another circumstance very essential for her to know, was how long he meant to be in Bath; he had not mentioned it, or she could not recollect it.
Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge: that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done.
Anne did not receive the perfect conviction which the Admiral meant to convey, but it would have been useless to press the enquiry farther.
They meant to take a long drive this morning; perhaps we may hail them from some of these hills.
She meant to avoid any such alteration of manners as might provoke a remonstrance on his side.
The result of his labours, therefore, is not meant for the expert, but for the general reader, who may have pondered over the various vehicles he has seen, and idly wondered how they may have been evolved.
The bottom of this luggage-box is meant to be about twelve or thirteen inches from the ground, and the idle wheels seven, six, or five.
It was meant that they all should wear dresses alike, But bad luck has prompted the tailors to strike.
He recognised now, for the first time fully, how much it meant to him, that meeting with Ida.
She had no thought of time in the present; to sit waiting for an hourmeant as little as to wait five minutes; such was the habit that had become impressed upon her by interminable days and nights.
What meant the arrival of the volume here in Beaufort Street?
I meant no reproach, but it will perhaps help you to think of that.
Was not His life meant to exhibit to us the ideal of the completest severance from the world which is consistent with human existence?
They meant more than she could ever say to another, however close and dear to her.
Her eyes showed unmistakable gratitude as the teacher appeared, for his approach meant that she would be relieved from the three elder children.
The feeling wore off, as Ida said, but at first cleanliness meant positive discomfort, taking the form of loss of identity and difficulty of mutual recognition.
Doubtless this meantthat the rent was not forthcoming.
And, only two days ago, he had shown that he remembered the exact date of her release, in asking whether Waymark meant to do anything.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "meant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
