I described the house, and he understood where it was.
I quite understood what he meant, but I replied that it would be no good; for I was virtuous, Monsieur.
A foreigner would have understood nothing, the language was so carefully veiled.
Maupassant's was a simple one, sufficient for his needs as he understood them, though perhaps really consequent upon his artistic methods, rather than at the root of them.
I asked myself: How does she manage to make herself understood so quickly, so well and so completely?
He had been sent for immediately, and he was explaining the causes of the accident, of which I understood nothing, however.
And then, to speak the truth, Monsieur Beaurain never said much to me, but when I looked in the glass, I also understood quite well, that I also no longer appealed to anyone!
I understood it all now: the son was asking for the girl whom he had loved, and whom on his return home he missed, and the wicked woman, enraged at hearing for the first time that he had loved her, was determined to have her revenge.
Need I say that as I heard this fearful narrative, I recognized the actions of the sleep-walker, and understood them all?
Jevons then deals with the fact that, under ordinary conditions of experience, phenomena which can be understoodonly by seeing them under varying conditions are presented in a fixed and uniform way.
The identification of something already understood is, indeed, an indispensable function of further investigation (ante, p.
It is such peculiar combinations of the understood and the nonunderstood that provoke thought.
He needs to utilize the features of the local environment which areunderstood to help clarify and enlarge his conceptions of the larger geographical scene to which they belong.
Failure to use meanings that are nevertheless understood reveals dependence upon external stimulus, and lack of intellectual initiative.
It is usual to distinguish between one's active and one's passive vocabulary, the latter being composed of the words that are understood when they are heard or seen, the former of words that are used intelligently.
Sidenote: Direct and indirect understanding again] Yet the maxim has a meaning which, understood and supplemented, states the line of development of logical capacity.
Something already understood in one situation has been transferred and applied to what is strange and perplexing in another, and thereby the latter has become plain and familiar, i.
They understood how difficult it is to transmit knowledge without putting initiative in jeopardy and that quiet intellect is easily dismayed in the presence of bold speech.
They understood the virtue of extreme dryness in the exercise of their antiseptic art.
An Arabian scientist of the eleventh century studied the phenomena of the reflection and refraction of light, explained the causes of morning and evening twilight, understood the magnifying power of lenses and the anatomy of the human eye.
The former ill-understood work, definitely referring its readers to the latter for the social aspect of education, applies itself as exclusively as possible to the study of the physical and mental development of the individual child.
In the middle of the nineteenth century little was known of the nature of fermentation, though some sought to explain by this ill-understood process the origin of various diseases and of putrefaction.
I must not be understood to mean absolute irresistibility of constitutional government.
Now I read geology as if I understood all about it; but, five minutes after I have put the book down, I get the ages inextricably mixed; Eocene and Pleiocene and pre-Carboniferous and Cambrian and Silurian are all one to me.
Tartarin understood when he heard the police captain talking with the doorkeeper of the castle, a fat man in a Greek cap, shaking a huge bunch of rusty keys.
Their intellects were in accord; they always understood each other.
He knew Sadie understood him, perhaps better than he understood himself, and if his narrative gave her any pleasure, he thought she deserved it.
Rain and mist would be dangerous obstacles, but Festing understood that he could reach the dale in about two hours' steady walking.
The rebuff he had got did not rankle much, and was rather provocative than daunting, but he understood why she had told him he made her cheap.
She understood her husband and knew he sometimes deceived himself.
But he had learned her value and understood something of what she had done for him.
Moreover, he unconsciously delineated his own character, and when he stopped, the others understood something of the practical resource and stubbornness that had supported him.
He understood Charnock better now, and knew that when he was serious he often used a careless tone.
She knew Bob was his partner, and no doubt understood what this implied.
It was obvious that she understood something of his misfortune, for her look was sympathetic; but she let him finish his supper before she began to talk.
Besides, he was not altogether sure he understood her last remark.
Sadie waited until she thought she understood the matter, and then remarked: "So you stuck to your promise that you'd help me with Bob, although you saw what it would cost?
Then I understood you were resigned to going home before the contract is finished.
She understood his reference to Manitoba, where regulations dealing with liquor are strictly enforced.
Helen smiled and he knew it was a sign of courage, but had a vague feeling that he understood why she did so as he looked about.
Festing remembered that Muriel had indicated the hall, which he understood was a well-built farm, as his stopping place.
The real cheating that has been practised by the ore-buying and ore-treating companies is well understood by all mining men who have been within their clutches.
This is not to be understood as stating nor assuming that the property has a present valuation equalling the par of the entire capitalization.
This notion will be more readily understood when we consider the various types of ore bodies.
Far from it--I understood the Dean of St. Paul's to ask me whether any general effect had been produced upon the minds of the public.
I do not mean a definition involving the doctrine of this or that division of Christians, but limiting, in a manner understood by all of them, the sense in which the word should thenceforward be used.
I understood you to say, that you did not object to trade, but that you wished each country to produce that which it was best fitted to produce, with a view to an interchange of its commodities with those of other countries?
I understood your question only to refer to their collection under the same roof.
Nor is there any harm in the common use of the word, so only that it be distinctly understood to be not the Scriptural one; and therefore to be unfit for substitution in a Scriptural text.
Here she soon understood why her sisters were wailing and lamenting, for they had heard that the emperor was returning home from the great war.
When the emperor saw this he understoodevery thing, and ordered the two older princesses to be buried to their breasts in the earth, and left there that they might be an example of the severity of an imperial punishment.
As the brothers understood his meaning they went to old Birscha, who told them that you had been there, accomplished the feat, and set out on your way home.
When they understood that the lovely girl was the sister of neither, the handsome heroes seized their swords and were on the point of fighting as men do fight when they are obliged to divide any thing.
The Poor Boy and the prince looked at each other, understood that the deed must be done, and resolved to stay.
The emperor instantly understood the whole matter and said: "My dear children, I see that you ought to be husband and wife; may it prove for your good.
Petru saw that he saw nothing more, began to feel that he felt nothing more, and understood that he could understand nothing more, so he made no reply, but girded his sword tighter and prepared to fight.
I beg your pardon, sir," said Lee, "but I understood you to say that you were going to one of our huts to give the men a discourse.
I understood that he had some sort of patrimony there, on which he will end his days.
Mary was surprised too at the calm highbred bearing of her aunt, the way she understood and spoke of every subject of conversation, and the deference with which they listened to her.
If you had wanted to murder me, I could have understood it.
I understood him in a moment, as I then thought (though I was much deceived).
At the first she understood that all these years of anxiety had come to a point at last, and a strange feeling of excitement, almost joy, came over her.
When his Lordship saw the wild dusty figure come running out of the church porch with the parish register in his hand, and no hat on his head, he understood the position immediately.
They seemed gone a bare minute to her, when she heard and understood that the prisoners were found guilty.
When the two men were opposite their eyes met, and they understood one another.
This is the sense in which Stanley understood and translated this passage.
He asked them to treat of their business, and then to return to China quickly, and he warned the Spaniards not to show that they understood or were suspicious of anything other than what the mandarins had said.
For I understood that he keeps your Grace in these islands with the hope of their increase, and I am aware that your being there will serve as a remedy for this fortress and island of Tidore.
It must be understood that this Moro held unlawful relations with the wife of Langara, the stepmother of King Prauncar.
It was also understood that the persecution would extend to the other orders and Christians in Japon, whereupon all received great fear and confusion.
In all two hundred and sixty houses were burned, with much property which was in them, and it was understood that the damage and loss amounted to more than one million [pesos].
As heunderstood the voyage to be long and Spanish ships necessary for it, Daifu proposed that the governor of Manila send him masters and workmen to build them.
The young man of fashion who had never heard of Elijah, or of Poe's "Raven," would not have understood it.
The one thing that Hawthorne could not have understood was, how gifted minds like Lucretius and Auguste Comte could recognize only the evidence of their senses, and deliberately blind themselves to the evidence of their intellects.
By the term Midwifery is understood the knowledge and art of treating a woman and her child during her pregnancy, labour, and the puerperal state.
I am not, however, astonished at the embarrassment you have hitherto felt, nor at your cautious examination of my opinions, which are better understood the more thoroughly they are examined and compared with those they oppose.
Can he who is above our reason be understood by us, whose reason is so limited?
They prove that works emanating from the Supreme Being are obscure, unintelligible, and need human assistance in order to be understood by those to whom the Divinity wished to reveal his will.
O, if these principles could be understood and lived out, how happy, how natural we all should be; and happy because natural.
It matters but little whether we are understood in this world, when we think of the long eternity before us.
The rose which needs more sunshine, more air, can never expect to reveal its need to, or be understood by one of the fungus order.
No one had ever understood her nature, or seemed to think her anything but a machine to teach the children their daily lessons.
It was as near as she could expect to be understood here, in a world where so much of her real self was hidden; but such words touched her sensibilities none the less, notwithstanding her philosophy.
Amused she might be, but enjoyment, as Dawn understood it, was out of the question with such a class as came that evening, and to each of whom Mrs. Austin seemed very proud to introduce her friend.
If he understood a question, he immediately indicated this by a nod of the head; if he failed to grasp its import, he communicated the fact by a shake of the head.
Whenever, in the foregoing, we spoke of a certain degree of concentration which had to be attained, it is not to be understood that the same tension had to be maintained throughout the test, from the horse's first tap to his last.
We had always understood till now that he was one of our dry speakers.
The little patients appear to take kindly to the diet, and one or two have even been understood to suggest that it seems rather a waste of milk.
Tresten might clearly have understood the fleeting look.
His own soldiers were ignorant of the fact, but Cortes perfectly understood it.
He at once understoodthe danger of his position, and understood as well how to meet it.
It was not long before Cortes understood the whole.
He quite understood that, had the animal been more savage or had it been free of the trap, it might have seriously injured Rose.
But it would have been unwise, for the coyote's teeth were as sharp as they looked to be, and it would not have understood that the little girl merely wished to help.
Daddy Bunker had told the children something about the development of this part of the United States the evening before, and Russ and Rose, at least, had understood and remembered.
That last was a pretty hard word, but Russ and Rose understood that it meant "fall behind.
It was generally understood that Rumania could not afford to incur the enmity of Germany by active interference in behalf of Serbia, even though the Serbians and Rumanians were natural allies against Bulgaria.
At 9:30 o'clock the bombardment of the city suddenly ceased, and we understood that the Burgomaster had by this time reached the German headquarters.
The manner in which General Foch sold terrain to them for the highest price they could be made to pay in German lives is understood now, and admired.
The Allies' troops, who were drawn up to receive the Germans, understood it would be their duty to hold on their very best that the attacking force at Meaux might achieve its task in security.
It was understood that the Allies also promised Greece a monetary indemnity after the war for any damage that might be done through the occupation of Greek territory.
The German casualties are also understood to have been extremely severe around Simno, especially on their extreme left, where they lost the greater part of their transport.
It was understood that the troops had sailed from Quebec in twenty armed transports, convoyed by a fleet of British warships, which had been collected at convenient ports for the purpose.
Our officers understood that it was going to be a difficult advance, for a bridge had to be built across a creek, but everything in our division went like clockwork.
It should be understood that our corps organizations are very elastic, and that we have at no time had permanent assignments of divisions to corps.
At this time Russia had concentrated a great army near the Rumanian frontier, and it was understood that a large number of heavy guns had arrived at Odessa for its use.
