But they were bent on understanding our kind of civilization, and their lines of interrogation would gradually surround us and drive us in till we found ourselves up against some admissions we did not want to make.
The Marquesans and Hawaians both speak dialects of the same language, and have no difficulty in understanding each other.
All which somewhat interfered with the clear understanding of the rest of the dialogue, which was now carried on between the brass tubes at a furious rate.
The mate laughed, evidentlyunderstanding what he meant; but Mr. Dunham inquired his meaning.
None of us asked another what was the matter; we seemed to wake with an instinctive understanding of the whole truth in its painful aggregate; and our first glances around were merely to take in the details of the situation.
And so he stood there in the sweetness of that knowing, the sweetness of that understanding why she held herself almost rigid like that, feeling surging higher in him in the thought that she too was fighting feeling.
She turned, hearing him, and there was that rush of feeling to her eyes that always claimed him for Ruth, that quick, silent assumption of his understanding that always let down bars between them.
She looked at him, her face softened with affectionate regret, with a newly understanding gratitude.
He had thought he remembered just how wonderful Ruth's eyes were--how feeling flamed in them and that steady understanding looked through from her to him--that bridge between separateness.
She had a new understanding of what she had felt; that was the thing added; that was the gift of the hard years.
He kept up a pretence with himself on the surface, but down in his heart he asked less now; he was not asking of love that complete sharing, that deep understanding which had been his dream before he talked to Amy.
Mrs. Franklin, leader in church and philanthropic affairs, had absolutely nounderstanding of things which went outside the domain of what things should be.
She had always had that feeling of Deane's understanding what she felt, even though it was not he who inspired the feeling.
Tinker sat on the ground near her, his chin on his knees, observing her with a sympathetic understanding which would have disquieted her not a little, had she not been too busy with her thoughts to notice it.
After a while Claire cooled from her excitement to the cold understanding of her folly.
By his eleventh birthday, though inexperienced in Lestrygons and Lotos-eaters, he had seen the cities of more men than that way-worn wanderer Ulysses at the end of his voyages, and he had no mean understanding of their disposition.
After all, railroading is not so much engineering, not so much discipline, not so much organization, not so much financing, as it is the understanding of men.
And in these days they're actually beginning to show some understanding of the real difficulties of this job.
The understanding was that if Janet won, her father was to take sixpence of the gain.
Was there a long and secret understanding between these two?
That night, for the first time, Edwin could read "Notre Dame" withunderstanding and pleasure.
In fact, my understanding said positively that it could not produce any effect.
A man is not bound to put his eyes, ears, and understanding into his breeches pocket when he meets with a murder.
The reason is--that he allows his understanding to overrule his eyes.
Here I pause for one moment, to exhort the reader never to pay any attention to his understanding when it stands in opposition to any other faculty of his mind.
But to return from this digression, my understanding could furnish no reason why the knocking at the gate in Macbeth should produce any effect, direct or reflected.
Nothing could be more perfect than the cordial understanding between the allied commanders, and the result proved how faithfully these mutual promises of support were realised.
He had some difficulty at first in understanding the strange idiom, but the general purport of Chang-Wo's questions was clear.
The man shook his head, evidently understandingnot a word.
To reach an understanding would have been difficult even in times of peace.
The Governor General mentioned documentary evidence found in the archives in Brussels, proving an understanding between these countries against Germany.
Some days ago he most amiably gave me a little private talk on these matters, of course on the tacit understanding that he was not to be "interviewed" as for close reporting of his informal sentences.
From so much good understanding more may ensue, Sir Wilfrid concluded.
Leibniz seems to have been impressed with the Essay on the Human Understandingat its first appearance.
The Essay on the Human Understanding is, as the name implies, an account of the nature of knowledge.
In him alone are understanding and will wholly one.
Existence and unity are two ideas," he says, "that are suggested to the understanding by every object without, and every idea within.
God is the harmony of the real and ideal, not a mere arrangement for bringing them to an understanding with one another.
Now this relation of a substance to simple ideas must be the relation of understanding to its ideas, while deciding upon one is the act of will in choosing.
His understanding is the source of essences, and his will the origin of existences.
Man's understanding "reaches no further than to compound and divide the materials that are made to his hand.
And his answer is that what Leibniz really implied was not a harmony between independent things, but a harmony between modes of knowing, between sense on the one hand and understanding on the other.
Such, indeed, is Locke's understandingof the nature of innate ideas.
She had intended to give the impression of belonging to a poor but noble family without giving the impression of being snobbish, and she was rather annoyed with Mr. Vavasour for not understanding at once what she meant.
Such a combination could never have come into existence, had the working classes at the time of the inception of machine-driven industry possessed either an understanding of what was happening, or the power to prevent their own exploitation.
Again, her understanding of industrial problems would make her a more intelligent as well as a more sympathetic helpmate.
It was the very largeness of their program which proved in the end a source of weakness, while latterly the activities of the organization became clogged by the burden of a membership with no intelligent understanding of the platform and aims.
Also, a committee of the state Senate began an inquiry into the strike, thus further educating the public into an understanding of the causes lying back of all the discontent, and accounting for much of the determination not to give in.
No organization can draw its nurture permanently from sources outside of itself, although many a movement has been nursed through its early stages of uncertainty and struggle by the aid of the sympathetic and understanding outsider.
These take part only in strikes in which women are involved, and then only after having been formally invited to assist, and on the understanding that two League representatives may attend all executive meetings of the strikers' union.
Although a small group, there is none whose members have shown a more complete understanding of the inner meaning of trade unionism, or a finer spirit of self-sacrifice in the service of their fellows.
For students of society this means that we are to aim at the understanding of social processes, rather than stop short with the consideration of facts; facts are to be studied because they go to make up processes.
It is poor understandingthat does not appreciate John Adams' parry of his wife Abigail's list of grievances, which she declared the Continental Congress must relieve if it would avoid a woman's rebellion.
Another to whom I put the same question, answered me in a sympathetic letter full of understanding comment.
The women of the American Revolutionary Period certainly challenge sharply the women of to-day, both by their intelligent understanding of political issues and by their sympathetic coöperation in the struggle.
There is an old-fashioned adjective which describes better than any other this preoccupation with things, which so often prevents a woman's coming to an understanding of the heart of her Business.
If we are to measure her understanding of the system under which she lives by what she has done with her own particular labor problem, we must set her down as a poor enough democrat.
What a commentary on the mother's understandingof "economic independence," a matter of which she talks eloquently at her club!
Cartwell, however, was looking at her with something in his gaze so quietly understanding that Rhoda smiled.
Before the second scream had left her lips she was lifted bodily from the saddle to Kut-le's arms where, understanding his device, she struggled like a mad woman.
But there was no answering look of understanding in DeWitt's worn face.
Tall, slender, inscrutable, as alien to her understanding as the call of the desert wind or the moon-drenched desert haze, she turned away and left him standing there alone.
Spira was there, and delighted to see me, but even to her I could not hint my troubles, as the good understanding then existing between Austria and England and the Turks, was a very sore subject to a Montenegrin.
Have we any difficulty in understandingthe difference?
If this were borne in mind, it would greatly help to anunderstanding of this much-misunderstood passage of Scripture.
We would merely remind the reader that if he would have a full understanding of the whole subject, he must look at Moses in a twofold aspect, namely, officially and personally.
Some expositors, in seeking to account for the absence of the blessings in the latter, have sought for them here; but it is a grand mistake--a mistake absolutely fatal to the proper understanding of either chapter.
Most certainly not; that is no part of our business: it would be time and labor lost, inasmuch as objectors and reasoners are wholly incapable of understanding or appreciating our reasons.
May the reader be led into the thorough understanding of all this, by the direct and powerful ministry of the Holy Spirit.
An understanding of practically all of the Epistle to the Hebrews is necessary before we can hope to make this text clear to ourselves.
And they who minister it, who sing and speak it, ought to be wise, understanding everything pertaining to the salvation of the soul and the honor of God.
Equally impossible is the proposition of understanding all mysteries, and we must take it to mean, Were it possible for one to understand all mysteries, which, however, it is not.
In order to a better understandingof the text, we shall adopt Paul's customary classification of life as spiritual and carnal.
But "knowledge" is the understanding of practical matters, such as Christian liberty, or the realization that the conscience is not bound.
Just so, when he has reference to tongues he includes all good words and doctrines; and in prophecy, understanding and faith he comprises all wisdom and knowledge.
Ye have become great blockheads, blind leaders, understanding not at all the Scriptures.
Oh, they are simply beyond my understanding altogether.
Neither did I offer to address their envelopes with a thorough understanding of their methods.
The instrument of that policy was to be a line of English deputies; able men on the whole and zealous in the public service, but generally incapable of understanding any national character or any institutions but their own.
On this understanding Parliament has acted, and is likely again to act in the case of the representation, as well as in the disestablishment of the Irish Church.
A foreign woman speaking and understanding little English, with a ticket to Springfield, has by mistake boarded a through train which does not stop there.
It simply leaves the inquiry: What was the understanding those fathers had of the question mentioned?
Before he could expect to arouse sympathetic understanding he would have to answer all the possible objections and reasons against his new scheme.
The speakers upon one side will arrange among themselves the order in which they will speak but there should be a clear understanding beforehand as to whether rebuttal speeches are to be allowed.
This is the fault with most recitations of pupils in school--they do not get a clear understanding of the material assigned to them for mastery.
There was, you see, the reassurance of complete understanding of the subject coupled with the endeavor to express it clearly.
To make understanding doubly certain he repeats them--population and commerce--and passes to the next, plainly numbering it as the third.
The collection of words a person can command either in use or understanding is a vocabulary.
Can any one with any sanity see any connection of the Revolutionary War, Jefferson, Valley Forge, with a plain understanding of such a business matter as charging tolls for the use of a waterway?
The desire for clear understanding will keep the mind stored with material to assimilate and communicate.
It should be cultivated in connection with the powers of understanding and expression, but it is not economical to commit a speech verbatim for delivery.
In construction it has been usually compared to an organ pipe, a comparison justifiable for imparting a non-technical understanding of its operation.
To secure this complete understanding of all his reading he will consult consistently every book of reference.
To reinforce the understandingof what a thing is, it is desirable to know what it is not, or what its opposite is.
Certainly, to be charitable, we cannot say they lacked a clear understanding of their own topic.
Had God designed that we should occupy our thoughts with his purposes, would he not have given us an understanding proportionate to the things he wished us to penetrate?
Do not tell me, Madam, that your understanding is too weak to sound the depths of theology.
If my Eugenia is enlightened and reasonable upon all other topics, why does she renounce her understanding and her judgment whenever religion is in question?
If these court divines were too rigid, they would affright their fashionable disciples seeking to reach heaven on "flowery beds of ease," and who embrace religion with the understanding that they are to be allowed no inconsiderable latitude.
The priests have given the name of religion to systems invented by them to subjugate men, whose imagination they had seduced, whose understanding they had confounded, and whose reason they had endeavored to extinguish.
For why should God, in creating a reasonable being, not have given him an understanding which nothing could corrupt?
With what face can a reverend Doctor of Nonsense dare to exact from myunderstanding a humble acquiescence in a bundle of mysterious opinions, for which he is unable to offer me a single solid reason?
It appears evident that every man who consults his understanding should be more reasonable than one who only consults his imagination.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "understanding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
