It is impossible to understand the force of this provincial expression--the house of Monsieur Grandet--without giving the biography of Monsieur Grandet himself.
Eugenie, not being able to understand the question of her father's fortune, stopped short in her calculations.
Neither la Grande Nanon nor Cornoiller has sufficient mind tounderstand the corruptions of the world.
First:--All who come here on these coming Sabbath evenings will not understand the Holy War all at once, and many will not understand it at all.
But to understand the peace of God, that supreme peace, the peace that passeth all understanding,--that is the highest triumph of the theologian and the highest wisdom of the saint.
Schweinfurth will throw a light upon the spirit which animated the authorities, all of whom were incensed at my having presumed to understand the Khedive's orders literally respecting the suppression of the slave trade.
Many were in irons; these were quickly released by the blacksmiths, to the astonishment of the captives, who did not appear to understand the proceeding.
We now began to understand theplaces at which we were sure to meet an ambuscade.
That is how I understand the person I am to see to-day!
I have heard her ever since I was able to understand the sound of weeping!
Try to understand the sufferings of the forsaken people!
This made Mercy blush, and the boys to cover their faces, for they all began now to understand the riddle.
They seldom took the trouble to make us understand the things we said to them.
The advice was excellent; but to understand the choice, and what I gained, some outline of the internal disposition of the ship will first be necessary.
Shelley speaks of the sea as 'hungering for calm,' and in this place one learned to understand the phrase.
It will be hard for an American to understand the spirit.
As I walked the deck and looked round upon my fellow-passengers, thus curiously assorted from all northern Europe, I began for the first time to understand the nature of emigration.
The little speech has been in "cold type" so many years since then that the reader of it to-day may find it hard to understand the flame of response it kindled so long ago.
As I understand the telegrams, the engineers of your train had never seen a locomotive before.
The bridegroom was dazed, unable to understand the meaning of things, the apparent ownership and completeness of possession.
The time comes when we have learned to understand the music of sorrow, the beauty of resigned suffering, the holy light that plays over the pillow of those who die before their time, in humble hope and trust.
I was pretty well prepared to understand the Master's library and his account of it.
At the end, as at the beginning, the German war lords failed to understand the psychology of human nature as they had failed to understand the spirit of France, of Belgium, of Great Britain, and of America.
XIII I am not strong enough in the science of psychology to understand the origin of laughter and to get into touch with the mainsprings of gaiety.
So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.
And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to understand the words of the law.
I understand the King of France is upon consulting his divines upon the old question, what the power of the Pope is?
At first the young men keep their eyes rigidly closed or even sealed with a plaster of chalk, and they appear not tounderstand the words of command which are given them by an elder.
At the king's kraal, indeed, it is sometimes difficult to understand the speech of the royal wives, as they treat in this fashion the names not only of the king and his forefathers, but even of his and their brothers back for generations.
I can see no reason why it should not be done; but I understand the custom of the country is to fix the price afterwards at the end of the season.
I never was there; but I understand the men do drink in that back place.
I understand the men in that neighbourhood were under an obligation to fish to Mouat, who was the tacksman of the property?
I understand the number of paupers in this parish is fifty-three?
If the white man would lay himself out a bit to understand the workings of the black man's mind, most of the messes would be avoided.
And somehow it doesn't seem necessary, after all, to understand the niggers.
Perhaps it's his stupidity that makes him succeed, and surely one phase of his stupidity is his inability to understand the niggers.
She had found him unchanged in his kindness to herself, and she was the more led to ponder on the grave, stern impassiveness of his manner to others, and to try to understand the tone of mind that it indicated.
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