And as he saw the pricks on one of the taper fingers he had so often kissed, he understood that Madame de la Baudraye was not merely playing at this maternal task.
I understood that I was not to drink anything in spite of the dreadful thirst that parched my throat.
He ascribed these signs-manual of dissipation to the severities of a literary life, declaring that the Press was murderous; and he gave it to be understood that it consumed superior talents, so as to lend a grace to his exhaustion.
Footnote 3: In speaking of this common ground, and in commenting upon it, I wish not to beunderstood that I consider these truths as comprising all that is essential in Christianity.
I wish it to be understood that it was not my plan, but theirs; and that I am at any time willing to have the Study Card down once in half an hour, whenever a majority of the scholars, voting by ballot, desire it.
He was a statesman, and like the statesman he understood that half a loaf is often better than no bread and that, though he must often compromise and conciliate, he must surrender nothing essential.
Every reader of our history, though he were the dullest, understood that.
They discussed the situation in all its aspects, but Mrs. Peckover gave it clearly to be understood that, from her point of view, 'the game was spoilt.
These, to be sure, were not the London actors, but advertisements in local newspapers gave it to be understood that they 'made an ensemble in no respect inferior to that which was so long the delight of the metropolis.
Clara was not disposed to admit freedoms of that kind; she half gave it to be understood that, though others might be easily satisfied, she had views of her own on such subjects.
Fauchelevent, who was illiterate but very sharp, understood that he had to deal with a formidable species of man, with a fine talker.
Jean Valjean, feeling that he was discovered and that Javert was on his scent, understood that he and Cosette were lost if they returned to Paris.
I understood that we must retire, in order to allow this traveller to go to sleep, and we both went up stairs.
And when he understood that he was not far from the city, he went out in procession, with the priests and the multitude of the citizens.
But the marble at last grew animated and let it be understood that it didn't do to be at all squeamish if one went to that house, since the woman was always tipsy and the husband so uneducated that he called a corridor a 'collidor'!
Verdurin bought an artificial stone for three hundred, and let it beunderstood that it was something almost impossible to match.
It had come to be understood that Mrs. Bolton would not allow herself to give any assent to the marriage, but that the marriage was to go on without such assent.
Of course it will be understood that since we last saw John Morton the position of Minister Plenipotentiary at Patagonia had been offered to him and that he had accepted the place in spite of Bragton and of Arabella Trefoil.
I will be your true husband for the rest of the journey;--by which I mean it to be understood that I take you into partnership on equal terms, but that I am to be allowed to manage the business just as I please.
He did not speak of the King and Queen, but he allowed it to be understood that he had politely avoided their company.
He understood that he must choose between the fear of Glaucus, and the pursuit and vengeance of a powerful patrician, to whose aid would come, beyond doubt, another and still greater, Petronius.
He understood that if she were in the assembly listening to those words, and if she took them to heart, she must think of him as an enemy of that teaching and an outcast.
But from the moment when he saw her more nearly in the triclinium he thought to himself that Aurora might look like her; and as a judge he understood that in her there was something uncommon.
Vinicius did not know who that He was, but he understood that he himself was going to commit some sacrilege, and he felt a boundless fear also.
He felt this himself; heunderstood that an adherent of the principles of Zeno, of Citium, should go by another road, and he suffered more from that cause than from the fear of death itself.
My body was now inclined towards the side of the car, at an angle of about forty-five degrees; but it must not be understood that I was therefore only forty-five degrees below the perpendicular.
It is understood that we are not prepared generally to give any cash; but in the case of a regular knitter who wanted some part of her payment in cash, I have never refused, so far as I recollect, to give her what she asked.
Do you mean that when a man gets advances at a merchant's shop, it is understood that he must fish to him in the coming year?
I understood that I was liable to pay a fine or to receive a warning if I did not fish for my landlord.
Then I understood that in what I called Pantheism, the immortality of the individual had no place.
By degrees he understood that it was only a phrase, and that there was nothing to look for.
This astonished him, and Mrs. Weldon, by some words which escaped him, understood that astonishment.
It will be understood that if Negoro had stopped the natives who were about to punish Harris's murderer, it was only because he wished to reserve Dick Sand for one of those terrible torments of which the natives hold the secret.
As for little Jack, he understood that he must not make a noise; but, as motion was not forbidden, he imitated his friend Dingo, and ran on his hands and feet from one end of the boat to the other.
Such cases were neither desired nor treated there; he understood that.
I imagine it has something to do with veins and arteries; and it's understood that he's to avoid sudden excitement.
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