Understand in A Sentence

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    A regulation excluding Maltese from the navy (because of their speaking on board a language that their officers did not understand) provoked from Trinity College, Cambridge, the Strickland correspondence in The Times on the constitutional rights of the Maltese, and a leading article induced the Colonial Office to try an experiment known as the Strickland-Mizzi Constitution of 1887.

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    A very considerable body of knowledge relating to this subject already exists, but further work on experimental lines is urgently required to enable us to understand the actual economy of plants growing under different conditions of life and the true relation of the hereditary anatomical characters which form the subject matter of systematic anatomy to those which vary according to the conditions in which the individual plant is placed.

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    Alex was romantic enough to understand the sentimental significance of the home she had inherited.

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    All this was so terrible and unreal that he could not understand it at all, and so had good reason to be afraid.

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    Alliances with various land powers, and an inability to understand the true relations which alone could unite the league, combined to alienate the allies, who could discover no reason for the expenditure of their contributions on protecting Sparta or Corinth against Thebes.

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    Also understand that I'll kill anyone who comes between us and my plans, he warned.

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    Although I can't, for the life of me, understand why you wouldn't want to impress her.

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    Although the scala tympani is so rudimentary, not reaching a higher level than in most of the reptiles, and remaining far below the mammalia, birds do not only hear extremely well, but they distinguish between and " understand " pitch, notes and melodies.

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    Am I to understand you would like to get away from our children?

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    And he who would understand what he remembers to have been said, whether in a dream or when he was awake, by the prophetic and enthusiastic nature, or what he has seen, must first recover his wits; and then he will be able to explain rationally what all 1 This misunderstanding of Acts ii.

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    And it is not too much to say that that view - which to some extent appears in the historical psalms of the Ehohistic Psalter - implies absolute incapacity to understand the difference between old Israel and later Judaism, and makes almost anything possible in the way of the ascription of comparatively modern pieces to ancient authors.

    12

    And the whole thing has been unnatural because that cat and I are both able to talk your language, and to understand the words you say.

    13

    Any pagan who wished to understand and criticize Christianity intimately had to begin by learning from the Jews, and this accounts for the opening chapters of his argument.

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    As a thorough Spaniard who did not even understand the language of his Netherland subjects Philip was from the first distrusted and his acts regarded with suspicion.

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    As if that were important, and there were not enough to understand you without them.

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    At first sight it appears difficult to understand how g PP the complicated series of actions which are definitely exhibited as so-called " instincts " by a variety of animals can have been due to the selection of congenital variations, or can be otherwise explained than by the transmission of habits acquired by the parent as the result of experience, and continuously elaborated and added to in successive generations.

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    Awed by the power she had over him, she began to understand the extent of his solitary existence for the millennia of his life.

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    Brady, I don't understand you.

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    But against this explanation of the heading ry;p' 2 there is an almost insuperable objection; for, since both the first and second books contain psalms with this heading, it is clear that the " Chief Musician's - or Director's - Psalter " must have been in existence before either of these books; in which case, apart from the difficulty of the antiquity which we should be compelled to assign to this earliest Psalter, it is impossible to understand on what principle the first book of Psalms was formed.

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    But Amy, scarcely by her own fault, is drawn into certain breaches of definite moral laws which Defoe did understand, and she is therefore condemned, with hardly a word of pity, to a miserable end.

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    But as a man, I understand it would have been easier for you

    22

    But before long he came to understand, as no other commander of the age save Gustavus understood it, the value of true "shock-action."

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    But I cannot understand the cruelty...

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    But I don't understand it.

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    But I still don't understand.

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    But I understand what you're feeling.

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    But I understand why you did it.

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    But if Quinn got drunk and slept with Betsy, like years ago, you'd understand and forgive her, wouldn't you?

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    But in process of time he learnt to understand the importance of British counsels.

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    But it is the spirit which quickens them that can understand spiritually what they hear."

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    But past-Deidre had motivations deeper than anything I could understand.

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    But seeing all this, I can understand.

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    But that view which admits a life of God that is not benumbed in an unchangeable sameness will be able to understand his eternal co-working as a variable quantity, the transforming influence of which comes forth at particular moments and attests that the course of nature is not shut up within itself.

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    But then, not being married, how could he understand what was required to sustain a marriage?

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    But there are no reasons for thinking the performance ironical or insincere, and it cannot be doubted that Defoe would have been honestly unable even to understand Lamb's indignation.

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    But to understand these in their mutual and explanatory relations it will be necessary to exhibit the conditions under which his thought grew into consistency and system.

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    But you don't need those numbers; I understand you've done your homework searching public records.

    38

    But you must understand my people are not like you, are not as accepting of your loose tongue.

    39

    But you understand that medical treatment isn't free?

    40

    By doing this, we will come to understand those conditions better and perhaps prevent them.

    41

    By looking at them together we understand how much the comedy of Terence was able to do to refine and humanize the manners of Rome, but at the same time what a solvent it was of the discipline and ideas of the old republic. What makes Terence an important witness of the culture of his time is that he wrote from the centre of the Scipionic circle, in which what was most humane and liberal in Roman statesmanship was combined with the appreciation of what was most vital in the Greek thought and literature of the time.

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    By the "fathers," then, we understand the whole of extant Christian literature from the time of the apostles to the rise of scholasticism or the beginning of the middle ages.

    43

    Cynthia grimaced but seemed to understand.

    44

    Cynthia seemed to understand his hurt.

    45

    Darkyn is not an easy person to understand or live with, and I'm still not certain at all what to think of him at times.

    46

    Dean could not understand someone voluntarily subjecting themselves to the tedium of the molasses-process of justice.

    47

    Deidre couldn't understand the relationship and how permanent he claimed it was.

    48

    Deidre didn't understand how that was possible.

    49

    Deidre glanced at Darkyn in puzzlement, and Gabriel realized she didn't yet understand the depth of the Dark One's obligation to her.

    50

    Deidre held no warmth at all for Darkyn, but she could understand that the girl didn't belong in this mess.

    51

    Did humans understand both their universal significance and their individual insignificance?

    52

    Disbelief and sorrow crossed her face as she began to understand her options.

    53

    Do you understand me?

    54

    Do you understand me? he asked.

    55

    Do you understand what could have happened?

    56

    Do you understand? he asked.

    57

    Do you understand? he demanded.

    58

    Does she understand how important her gift is?

    59

    Eminently truthful, he could not understand that some verbal insincerities are necessary to social life.

    60

    Even if she could explain, he wouldn't understand the gnawing fear that drove her from their favorite spot.

    61

    Even she didn't even understand it.

    62

    Even when they didn't understand the cause, they empathized with the emotion.

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    Few men have been so courageous, and his influence was magnetic. Even the rough Szeklers, though they did not understand the language of their "little father," regarded him with superstitious reverence.

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    Finally, when one remembers how, during the First Crusade, the pedites had marched side by side with the principes, and how, from the beginning of 1099, they had practically risen in revolt against the selfish ambitions of princes like Count Raymund, it becomes easy to understand the independent position which the burgesses assumed in the organization of the kingdom.

    65

    Fury she didn.t understand crossed his face.

    66

    Gabriel didn't need to understand modern science.

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    He began to understand her reluctance to be involved with him and how thick the walls around her heart were, if she spent the years since the Schism learning how to shut people and emotion out.

    68

    He began to understand why and couldn't help but feel frustrated at having to find a way to win her instead of command her.

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    He can understand a career in real estate.

    70

    He cleared it, pushing aside the haze of alcohol and the pain he sensed but didn't understand the source of.

    71

    He couldn't possibly know or understand, but he seemed to sense something was wrong between them.

    72

    He couldn't yet understand the magic in his veins, unleashed by the vamp without any explanation of its depths.

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    He didn't fully understand why, unless it was because he hadn't tapped her yet.

    74

    He didn't leave a single detail out, hoping she would understand how obvious it was that she would not hurt him.

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    He didn't question anyone or anything, and I couldn't understand his world, she began.

    76

    He didn't quite understand why she needed that.

    77

    He didn't understand both their concern and eagerness to get rid of him, but felt familiar coldness settle into his chest.  There had been two other people in the entirety of the universe that cared for him, and the two people with him now were not the same.

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    He didn't understand it at the time.

    79

    He didn't understand the difference between an immortal warrior and a human child, between opponent and innocent.

    80

    He didn't understand the ins and outs of their blood bond, but he knew how much she rocked his world when she drank from him earlier.

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    He didn't understand what.

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    He didn't understand why the self-proclaimed guardian of humans would drag such a helpless creature into this web of evil.

    83

    He didn't understand why, when she was so torn about what to do.

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    He drove home slowly, trying to understand what had happened.

    85

    He eyed her for a moment, as though he couldn't understand why she didn't know.

    86

    He guessed she would understand.

    87

    He is a barbarian to others and they to him, since they cannot understand what is spoken by him.

    88

    He is a most difficult writer; different readers understand him differently; and he uses in the earlier parts of his Critique of Pure Reason much of the language of intuitionalism.

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    He is not, but he is a warrior worthy of her attention in battle.  The Immortals always say, at least they understand Darkyn.

    90

    He knew she'd understand.

    91

    He made capital of the Socialist agitation and of the repression to which other statesmen resorted, and gave the agitators to understand that were he premier they would be allowed a free hand.

    92

    He might not appreciate the china the way she did, but he would understand and support her desire to make use of it.

    93

    He must understand what Alex had been through.

    94

    He said nothing, aware the creature before him wasn't capable of communicating a truth in a way most others could understand.  Death was from a time before time.  He would never understand what she saw when she looked out over humanity and saw its Past, Present, Future, and the soul of each human that ever lived.  The size of her vision rendered her unique interpretations puzzling, even to him.

    95

    He seemed to understand so much.

    96

    He shook his head wondering if he would ever truly understand this woman.

    97

    He spoke a smattering of words she didn't understand.

    98

    He spoke in tear-filled gibberish she didn't understand, and she moved away to the door.

    99

    He still didn't understand the question Sofi wanted him to know, but the fact the woman capable of operating on stealth-mode was the answer did not set well with him.

    100

    He suspected she was relieved he was leaving, even if he didn't understand why.

    101

    He took as his starting-point the traditional faith; but he was convinced that whoever has experience of the truths of the faith would be able to understand them.

    102

    He was anxious to make sure that his readers would understand his exact meaning, and to guard them against all possible misconceptions.

    103

    He was silent in surprise once more, unable to understand how she might consider his battle plans nothing more than a complex game.

    104

    He was too cagey for her to understand what he felt.

    105

    He wasn't going to understand what she'd done.

    106

    He'd surmised she was somewhere this side of the Mississippi, but he couldn't understand how she didn't know how bad it was.

    107

    Hence his mistakes though easy to understand are by no means so pardonable as were, for example, those of the Georges, who had been absolute monarchs in their own country.

    108

    Hence we are able to understand how the Gnostic µirTrtp, the Sophia, appears as the mother of the Hebdomas (4360µas).

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    Her abrupt contentedness was a warning he didn't understand how to interpret.

    110

    Her bizarre changes of subject made him understand why Andre hadn't liked dealing with her.  Was there hidden meaning in her words?

    111

    Her instincts were at full alarm, but she didn't understand what she had to fear from Gabriel's death dealers.

    112

    Her sign language vocabulary had increased, but many things were still difficult to understand.

    113

    Her words puzzled me very much because I did not then understand anything unless I touched it.

    114

    Here her character was shaped; here she imbibed that passionate love of country scenes and country life which neither absence, politics nor dissipation could uproot; here she learnt to understand the ways and thoughts of the peasants, and laid up that rich store of scenes and characters which a marvellously retentive memory enabled her to draw upon at will.

    115

    His adroitness in intrigue and his fascinating manners were exceptional even in an age when such qualities formed part of every statesman's education; but the characteristics which ensured him success in the House of Lords and in the royal closet led to failure in his attempts to understand the feelings of the mass of his countrymen.

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    His argument as to the narrowness of the sea between West Africa and East Asia, from the occurrence of elephants at both extremities, is difficult to understand, although it shows that he looked on the distribution of animals as a problem of geography.

    117

    His attempts at braiding her dark hair the way she liked it had ended up in a series of knots, because he didn't quite understand how to do it and his man-sized fingers were too clumsy.

    118

    His letters betray discontent with Elizabeth's reluctance to assist the States; he could not understand her antipathy to rebellious subjects, and he returned in October, having accomplished little.

    119

    His mother never held a grudge against his father, and suddenly, Xander didn't understand why not.

    120

    How all this operated we shall understand when we examine the remarkable organization of the state introduced by Diocletian and his successors.

    121

    How are we to understand these conflicting, though not irreconcilable, testimonies?

    122

    How could he expect her to understand things he did not understand himself?

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    How could he possibly understand?

    124

    How could she expect Denton to understand her dream of purchasing the place?

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    I also observe that some external links should be allowed, particularly to Wikipedia, but understand the need to keep spammers at bay.

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    I am here to help you understand her, because, for some unfathomable reason, she cares about you.

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    I began to read the Bible long before I could understand it.

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    I can understand it must be scary to think of giving birth.

    129

    I can understand that after you guys tried to kill each other.

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    I can understand why.

    131

    I can understand you not wanting to invest the money for a car, but what's wrong with accepting a ride now and then?

    132

    I can't even understand it.

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    I can't understand it.

    134

    I can't understand those climbers....

    135

    I can't understand why he wants to go to the war, replied Pierre, addressing the princess with none of the embarrassment so commonly shown by young men in their intercourse with young women.

    136

    I could have killed you, don't you understand that?

    137

    I could understand why he would be chasing her, but if I'd have known she'd go for a guy older than me...

    138

    I didn't understand it until much later that she wanted to destroy the immortal world and use my vamps to do it.

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    I didn't understand what it meant.

    140

    I didn't understand what you were doing until after.

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    I didn't understand why I had to do it, until you told me that you couldn't hear my thoughts.

    142

    I do not understand how you feel as you do.

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    I do not understand quite what that means.

    144

    I don't always understand all the parts.

    145

    I don't expect a human to understand.

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    I don't expect someone like you to understand.

    147

    I don't know if a man can understand this, but I want to hold a baby in my arms and know it's a part of me and the man I love.

    148

    I don't understand all of it, though.

    149

    I don't understand any of this.

    150

    I don't understand his motivation.

    151

    I don't understand how we could have missed him.

    152

    I don't understand it, but the secret is in here, he said, presenting the book.

    153

    I don't understand it.

    154

    I don't understand peace, Taran!

    155

    I don't understand the tension between him and his father.

    156

    I don't understand what that means, Father.

    157

    I don't understand you two, both encouraging your lovers to cheat on you.

    158

    I don't understand you women.

    159

    I don't understand, said he.

    160

    I don't want you to give that number to anyone unless it's an emergency, you understand?

    161

    I hope you understand.

    162

    I just want to understand your relationship.

    163

    I know I haven't been the best of friends, so if you don't want to talk to me anymore, I'll understand.

    164

    I know there was more to why she sought me out but I don't understand what.

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    I know you can't understand that.

    166

    I know you're upset, and I completely understand.

    167

    I learned a long time ago, that anyone who asks that question can't understand my answer anyway.

    168

    I never could understand how Winston was so positive the person you were fol­lowing was Jeff when you knew all along it was that other horrid man.

    169

    I never could understand why she would want to give up her own child.

    170

    I never did understand why Dad married her.

    171

    I never will understand how you could know so little about Fred.

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    I only wish to understand what this place is and how I came to be here.

    173

    I realized then you'd never understand or accept me for who I was.

    174

    I then thought that I did not understand her.

    175

    I think I understand now.

    176

    I think now I understand how he felt about her.

    177

    I think the best advice I can give, is try to understand that everything she does and says initially comes from fear and shock.

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    I think you understand how vulnerable you are here.

    179

    I understand but I want to do it, in spite of the nightmares and the risks.

    180

    I understand from Dawkins' son his old man was paying Josh pretty well to be his mine manager—up until August of 1961 when Josh disappeared.

    181

    I understand from Mrs. Glass he was back in town but has moved out, so you don't have to worry.

    182

    I understand he goes by Rob.

    183

    I understand how difficult it is to fall for someone so outside the norm, you feel like you're going crazy.

    184

    I understand if you don't want to get involved.

    185

    I understand if you hate me.

    186

    I understand it depends on the individual.

    187

    I understand it's been in the family for a long time.

    188

    I understand it's the right thing to do, but don't for a minute expect me to like it.

    189

    I understand Josh, but not Lori.

    190

    I understand my fate is either bad or really bad.

    191

    I understand opportunities were limited a century ago but surely she could have been a school teacher or office clerk or something above a brothel prostitute.

    192

    I understand the owner is in California.

    193

    I understand the rest of them were gone, but he was there at the house.

    194

    I understand what I need to.

    195

    I understand what I'm doing, but I don't understand why.

    196

    I understand you don't want to throw everything at me at once, but you need to explain this now.

    197

    I understand you have a big ranch west of here.

    198

    I understand you have friends doing your chores, and your hospital bill has already been paid through tomorrow, so stop worrying and complete your convalescence.

    199

    I understand you have good people on your payroll.

    200

    I understand you want to cross the river.

    201

    I understand you want to go to the convent.

    202

    I understand.  Is that all you came to tell me?

    203

    I wanted to explain things to you in a way you'd be able to understand.

    204

    I wanted you to understand what it was like to be a deity.

    205

    I was too young to understand why she sought out my mother and me.

    206

    I will make them understand.

    207

    I won't accept you, if you don't understand that about me.

    208

    I'm beginning to understand what you've gotten yourselves into.

    209

    I'm beginning to understand why the … why your father wants you.

    210

    I'm not sure, but I'm guessing his head injury caused him to not understand, or even remember what happened.

    211

    I'm only trying to understand why you think it's inappropriate.

    212

    I'm sorry, I don't understand.

    213

    I've been a warrior for too long to understand how to be the lifemate you deserve.

    214

    If every other contemporary record of the crusades perished, we should still be able by aid of this to understand and realize what the mental attitude of crusaders, of Teutonic knights, and the rest was, and without this we should lack the earliest, the most undoubtedly genuine, and the most characteristic of all such records.

    215

    If he didn't understand the difference, it wasn't going to do any good to explain it.

    216

    If he lived to be a hundred he'd never understand women.

    217

    If I get her help, she said everything would be okay, and everyone would understand Sasha killed the Immortals.

    218

    If I live to be a thousand years old I'll never understand them.

    219

    If I live to be a thousand years old, I'll never understand it.

    220

    If it were a war for freedom I could understand it and should be the first to enter the army; but to help England and Austria against the greatest man in the world is not right.

    221

    If only she could understand their words.

    222

    If the Minaeans were later immigrants from Hadramut, we can understand how they are not mentioned in Gen.

    223

    If they cannot understand that, they cannot understand much that I have to say.

    224

    If we understand by theism not simple belief in a divine unity, but such faith in one divine person as will constitute the basis for a popular religion, then - unless we allow a doubtful exception in Zoroastrianism.

    225

    If you don't want to forgive me or can't, I understand, she started.

    226

    If you want me to get a hotel room, I totally understand.

    227

    Imaging of the mountain flashed off and was replaced by a screen full of colors and letters Brady didn't understand.

    228

    In 1781 he writes," I cannot but observe that these were the first rudiments of the Methodist societies."In the presence of such facts we can understand the significance of the mission to Georgia.

    229

    In 1875 Bismarck was suspected of a design of again attacking France, and Gorchakov gave him to understand, in a way which was not meant to be offensive, but which roused the German chancellor's indignation, that Russia would oppose any such scheme.

    230

    In addition to the ordinary suffrage qualifications of age, sex, and residence, the voter must have paid all taxes due from him for the two years immediately preceding the election, and he must be able to read any section of the constitution or "be able to understand the same when read to him, or give a reasonable interpretation thereof."

    231

    In answer to this contention it may be said that, although the silence of the Chronicle is difficult to understand, it is almost impossible to believe that the very existence of the most important city in the country could suddenly cease and the inhabitants disappear without some special notice.

    232

    In her mind, she saw only them being happy, finally, after an eternity of struggling to understand one another.

    233

    In order to understand St Benedict's character and spirit, and to discover the secret of the success of his institute, it is necessary, as St Gregory says, to turn to his Rule.

    234

    In order to understand the attitude which the Free State took at this time in relation to the Transvaal, it is necessary to review the history of Mr Reitz from an earlier date.

    235

    In order to understand the future history of Italy, it is necessary to form a clear conception of the method pursued by the Lombards in their conquest.

    236

    In order to understand the sharp swing of the political pendulum back from republicanism to autocracy which took place at Brumaire, it is needful to remember that the virtual failure of the Egyptian Expedition was then unknown.

    237

    In order to understand the utter inability of the old republican party to withstand these changes, it is needful to retrace our steps and consider the skilful use made by Bonaparte of plots and disturbances as they occurred.

    238

    In that case, all who accept a revelation without professing to understand its content would require to be ranked as mystics; the fierce sincerity of Tertullian's credo quia ab-' surdum, Pascal's reconciliation of contradictions in Jesus Christ, and Bayle's half-sneering subordination of reason to faith would all be marks of this standpoint.

    239

    In the absence of literary culture the Albanian dialects, as might be expected, are widely divergent; the limits of the two principal dialects correspond with the racial boundaries of the Ghegs and Tosks, who understand each other with difficulty; the Albanians in Greece and Italy have also separate dialects.

    240

    In the electrical building we examined the telephones, autophones, phonographs, and other inventions, and he made me understand how it is possible to send a message on wires that mock space and outrun time, and, like Prometheus, to draw fire from the sky.

    241

    In their origin they were designed to meet the needs of the unlearned among the people who had ceased to understand the Hebrew of the Old Testament.

    242

    In these circumstances the intrusion of Germanic elements into ecclesiastical law is easy to understand.

    243

    In these courts the ordinary written law had little to say; the decisions of the volost courts were based on the local customary law, which alone the peasants, and the peasants alone, understand.

    244

    In this "Neander's chief aim was everywhere to understand what was individual in history.

    245

    In times of persecution the martyrs were buried among the rest of the faithful, but one can understand that their tombs, at which gatherings took place at least on the day of their anniversary, were distinguished from the ordinary tombs by some sign.

    246

    In truth therefore these attributes do not belong to body at all; and if we go on in the same way testing the received qualities of matter, we shall find that in the last resort we understand nothing by it but extension, with the secondary and derivative characters of divisibility and mobility.

    247

    It is difficult to understand a much-discussed passage of Origen (De oratione, 14), except as applying to prayer addressed to the saints.

    248

    It is easy to understand how English empiricism issued at once in the trenchant naturalism of Hobbes.

    249

    It is from this point of view that we must seek to understand the so-called Montanistic crisis.

    250

    It is important to understand clearly the criterion which he applied; it is frequently misapprehended.

    251

    It is indeed easy to understand that the romantic incidents of this period were much in the mouths of the people - to whom David was a popular hero - and in course of time were written down in various forms which were not combined into perfect harmony by later editors, who gave excerpts from several sources rather than a new and independent history.

    252

    It is not a government, as Europeans understand the term, but a group of heads of departments, whom their chief, though he usually consults them separately, often finds it useful to bring together for a talk about current politics and the course proper for the administration to take in them, or in order to settle some administrative question which lies on the borderland between the provinces of two ministers.

    253

    It is not easy to understand the spirit in which the author of the Principe sat down to exchange obscenities with the author of the Sommario della storia d'Italia.

    254

    It is not easy, however, to understand how it was that when the first parishes were formed so small an area was attached to each.

    255

    It is their analogue, and to understand it we must understand them, not forgetting that Paul, as a Semite, and his hearers, as converted pagans, were imbued with the sacrificial ideas of the old world.

    256

    It was difficult to understand why she had been looking forward to this moment for so long, but wasn't ecstatic now that it had finally arrived.

    257

    It was easy, therefore, to understand why Anselm's method did not become the dominant one in theology.

    258

    It was hard to believe he didn't understand the source of her distress, and yet he acted as though he was baffled.

    259

    It won't be pretty, but you need to understand.

    260

    It would be unprofitable to attempt a complete analysis of the Brunonian system; and it is difficult now to understand why it attracted so much attention in its day.

    261

    It's a long story, one you don't necessarily need to know to understand your circumstances.

    262

    It's a very interesting game, though I don't understand how it works exactly.

    263

    It's just that... well, she doesn't understand him, she stammered.

    264

    Jessi knew there was, and it bothered her not to understand what exactly that meant for her.

    265

    Jessi watched Xander move for a moment, unable to shake the sense there was more to him than she was able to understand.

    266

    Jesus, Elisabeth, I don't understand.

    267

    Jonathan and Destiny might understand, but the twins wouldn't.

    268

    Josh is religious, but there aren't many men who would claim to understand women.

    269

    Jule's next words were low and in a tongue she didn't understand.

    270

    Later, all that we understand by Syria came to be so known officially to the Romans and Byzantines; but the only province called simply Syria, without qualification, remained in the Orontes valley.

    271

    Let me start all over - in a way I know you'll understand.

    272

    Like her other thoughts, this one escaped before she was able to understand its meaning.

    273

    Look, I understand why you want to hurt me right now, but how can you do this to your own children?

    274

    Losing his family at such an early age, I understand why, she said, thoughts on her cousins.

    275

    Magic is a child's interpretation of a miracle, or anything they can't understand.

    276

    Maybe he did understand.

    277

    Maybe he'd understand about the place on the mountain.

    278

    Maybe I'm not smart enough to understand it but I deserve to know.

    279

    Maybe it was a relationship that was difficult for the modern wife to understand.

    280

    Mill applied to them again, but with the exception of Grote, who sent a small sum, they gave Comte to understand that they expected him to earn his own living.

    281

    Miss Fuller and Miss Sullivan could understand me, but most people would not have understood one word in a hundred.

    282

    Mums would understand, and Mums would keep it confidential.

    283

    My dog friends seem to understand my limitations, and always keep close beside me when I am alone.

    284

    My mother, moreover, succeeded in making me understand a good deal.

    285

    Natalie and Matthew were probably too young to understand, but Jonathan did.

    286

    Next, it must be carefully remembered that the early church was, in a sense hard for us even to understand, ruled and edified by the direct action of the Holy Spirit.

    287

    No guarantee we'll survive the night, but you probably understand that.

    288

    No matter what he said, she'd heard enough about past-Deidre to understand there was much more to their relationship.

    289

    No, because men have needs and desires women couldn't understand.

    290

    No, I don't understand.

    291

    No, you don't understand.

    292

    No; just trying to understand a few things.

    293

    No. She can't understand how sure I was she wouldn't hurt me.

    294

    No. You don't understand.

    295

    None extend farther to the westward than the valley of the Indus,' which, considering the nature of the country in Baluchistan and Afghanistan, is perhaps intelligible enough; but it is not so easy to understand why none are found either in Cochin China or China proper; and they are also wanting in the Philippine Islands, which is the more remarkable and instructive when we find how abundant they are in the groups a little farther to the southward.

    296

    Not at all crazy, I understand completely.

    297

    Not because you deserve it, but because I understand you had a weakness that consumed you.

    298

    Not being a military man I can't say I have understood it fully, but I understand the general position.

    299

    Not the kind you'd understand.

    300

    Nothing a blood monkey could understand.

    301

    Now I understand why you were crying.

    302

    Now you will understand why we drink so much.

    303

    Of all the White God's brothers, Dusty was the one most likely to understand Xander's position.

    304

    Oh, I can understand why you would want to deceive people, I just don't understand how you can involve your family in such a thing – especially Tammy!

    305

    Older and wiser, Xander was aware of what she did now, just as he was starting to understand the identity crisis that caused Eden to seek him out.

    306

    On the other hand the Austrians pointed out that not only would failure to understand each other's language cause fatal confusion on a battlefield, but also tend to disintegrate the forces even in peace time.

    307

    Once, when a question puzzled her very much, I suggested that we take a walk and then perhaps she would understand it.

    308

    One can readily understand the popularity of the Crusades, when one reflects that they permitted men to get to the other world by fighting hard on earth, and allowed them to gain the fruits of asceticism by the ways of hedonism.

    309

    One day, you'll understand.

    310

    Only little Lydia—who I understand was Jill-on-the-job and busted you for racing on her first day on duty.

    311

    Only now was he beginning to understand that her staying depended less on duty and honor and more on him.

    312

    Other points in the modification of the typical ctenidium must be noted in order to understand the ctenidium of Anodonta.

    313

    Our numbers have plummeted the past year, and I don't understand the placement of our army.

    314

    People who cannot scry may have these hypnagogic illusions, and, so far, may partly understand the experience of the scryer who is wide awake.

    315

    Pepys, a far more trustworthy judge, speaks of him invariably in terms of respect and approval as a " grave, serious man," and commends his appointment as treasurer of the navy as that of " a very notable man and understanding and will do things regular and understand them himself."

    316

    Perceiving further, that in order to understand these relations I should sometimes have to consider them one by one, and sometimes only to bear them in mind or embrace them in the aggregate, I thought that, in order the better to consider them individually, I should view them as subsisting between straight lines, than which I could find no objects more simple, or capable of being more distinctly represented to my imagination and senses; and on the other hand that, in order to retain them in the memory or embrace an aggregate of many, I should express them by certain characters, the briefest possible."

    317

    Perhaps I don't understand things, but Austria never has wished, and does not wish, for war.

    318

    Princess Mary did not understand what he wanted of her or why he was asking to be discharged.

    319

    Railways.It is easy to understand that an enterprise like railway construction, requiring a great outlay of capital with returns long delayed, did not at first commend itself to the Japanese, who were almost entirely ignorant of co-operation as a factor of business organization.

    320

    Reiske's linguistic knowledge was great, but he used it only to understand his authors; he had no feeling for form, for language as language, or for metre.

    321

    Remembering the organization of the tribe everywhere prevalent, it is not difficult to understand that the army, or horde, that stands for the idea, was assembled on the clan basis.

    322

    Rhyn does understand, but he can't control what he is.  Even if he wanted to do good, he'd fail.  He's too weak to control his impulses, Kris.

    323

    Sami, I don't understand what's happening!

    324

    Sarah could never understand why; she guessed it was some macho alpha male thing, but Jackson would occasionally go out looking for trouble.

    325

    Sarah usually made her beaus understand that vampirism isn't all it is cracked up to be, and she would not wish this life on anyone.

    326

    Sasha was not a hard creature to understand.

    327

    She could understand nothing, think of nothing and feel nothing, except passionate love for her father, love such as she thought she had never felt till that moment.

    328

    She definitely wouldn't understand a world like this one.

    329

    She did not understand what he was laughing at.

    330

    She did not understand who was to go or where to.

    331

    She didn.t understand much of the Immortal world, but she knew Death always won.

    332

    She didn't exactly understand the sensation except that she didn't ever want that feeling to end.

    333

    She didn't fully understand the demon senses that Darkyn indicated were part of her now.

    334

    She didn't fully understand what was going on between her father and these people.

    335

    She didn't fully understand why.

    336

    She didn't understand exactly why, except that Gabe was locked out of the underworld.

    337

    She didn't understand him.

    338

    She didn't understand how humans could feel so much and still function when she was overwhelmed.

    339

    She didn't understand how, when there was so much beauty around her.

    340

    She didn't understand it, not when he obviously had another woman.

    341

    She didn't understand the rules of this world well enough to know if she were jumping the gun, but what she heard made her very uncomfortable.

    342

    She didn't understand the significance of the pictures or writing and frowned, wondering how such a simple place was considered sacred.

    343

    She didn't understand what her instincts were trying to tell her, but right now, they wanted her to climb a tree to see the lake from above.

    344

    She didn't understand what pain was at that point.

    345

    She didn't understand what she was supposed to do with it around her neck.

    346

    She didn't understand why he'd chosen her of all people.

    347

    She didn't understand why until they reached the top, overlooking a deep canyon.

    348

    She doesn't understand how unlikely that is.

    349

    She doesn't understand the human world yet.

    350

    She doesn't understand you are mated.

    351

    She hesitated, sensing that entering his domain would somehow seal her to a fate she didn't yet understand.

    352

    She is not from here, doesn't understand her role.

    353

    She laughed, knowing he couldn't possibly understand why she found it funny.

    354

    She left him alone in the dark with his thoughts, and he began to understand more how his friend Rhyn felt in a world that was pitted against him.

    355

    She mumbled something he could not understand until he forced concentration, eventually discerning the thin voice whispering The Lord's Prayer.

    356

    She neared him, sensing a flood of raw emotion she didn't understand.

    357

    She needed someone who would listen and understand a little.

    358

    She pressed one button, then another, struggling to understand the symbols that popped up on the screen in response.

    359

    She rubbed the area beneath her collarbone with a frown, unable to understand the demon's movement.

    360

    She said nothing, too uneasy to understand what she thought.

    361

    She seemed to understand and was off to walk Bumpus while I filled in Betsy on my conversation.

    362

    She stared at him, trying to understand.

    363

    She struggled to understand what the images were trying to tell her.

    364

    She was beginning to understand the voicemails he kept getting.

    365

    She was in pain she didn't understand.

    366

    She was the one who insisted on having a man who would wear the pants – even if she didn't fully understand what that encompassed.

    367

    She was the only one who would probably understand her concern for Brutus.

    368

    She.d never understand a man like Kris, who saw the world only in black and white!

    369

    She'd been asked that question more than once while out and didn't understand it, unless it was some sort of odd Southern greeting.

    370

    She'd watched him go from a near-comatose state, through his teenager stage that nearly drove them all mad, to the gym-obsessed warrior trying to understand his place in the world.

    371

    So you understand the whole position of our troops?

    372

    So, I think you can understand you really get to know a person in that kind of time, right?

    373

    Some understand her readily; others do not.

    374

    Someone like you could never understand.

    375

    Someone who could love her and understand how important it was that she remained her own person.

    376

    Sometimes, when he was afraid, he was easy for her to understand.

    377

    Standard Chinese soon became easier to understand than archaic Japanese, as the former alone was taught in the schools, and the native language changed rapidly during the century or two that followed the diffusion of the foreign tongue and civilization (CnAMBERLAIN).

    378

    Stewart gives us to understand that he had, as early as 1752, adopted the liberal views of commercial policy which he afterwards preached; and this we should have been inclined to believe independently from the fact that such views I These two numbers were reprinted in 1818.

    379

    Such considerations help us to understand the enormous importance attached in ancient societies to the right of intermarriage, as also to grasp the origin of wills and testaments.

    380

    Such recitations were given by itinerant Bonzes, and it is easy to understand the connection between them and the No.

    381

    Surely she would understand.

    382

    Taran did not understand the need for her to return so soon, but the woman was beyond any man's control.

    383

    Tears began to spill again, and she began to understand how Darian felt, utterly alone and abandoned in the corner of her mind.

    384

    That every one who has capacity to understand the law is presumed to know it is a very necessary principle, for otherwise the courts would be continually occupied in endeavouring to solve problems which by their very impracticability would render the administration of justice next to impossible.

    385

    That he was troubled was no secret, though Rhyn didn.t understand why, aside from being a slave to Death.

    386

    That issue, she should understand how to fix.

    387

    That science must be left free to determine the aims of her investigation, to select and apply her own methods, and to publish the results of her researches without restraint, is a postulate which Ultramontanism either cannot understand or treats with indifference, for it regards as strange and incredible the fundamental law governing all scientific research - that there is for it no higher aim than the discovery of the truth.

    388

    That wasn't the point she was trying to make, but maybe a man would never understand what she was talking about.

    389

    That's an emotion I do understand, she said.

    390

    That's true but the electrostatic attraction is something we're just beginning to understand.

    391

    That's why it bothered me so much when Martha seemed to understand so quickly.

    392

    The better to understand the point of view of the Cape Dutch and the burghers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State, Milner also during this period learned both Dutch and the South African "Taal."

    393

    The book will contain four essays, all in French, with the general title of Project of a Universal science, capable of raising our nature to its highest perfection; also Dioptrics, Meteors and Geometry, wherein the most curious matters which the author could select as a proof of the universal science which he proposes are explained in such a way that even the unlearned may understand them.'

    394

    The Council meeting was a bust, and there was more tension in the air than he could understand.

    395

    The counties were administered by imperial officials, Germans, Czechs and Galicians, who did not understand the Magyar tongue.

    396

    The dialects differ very much in different parts of the island, so that those who speak one often cannot understand those who speak another, and use Italian as the medium of communication.

    397

    The endeavour to restrict juries to those who understand Italian reveals glaring incongruities.

    398

    The human organism is far too complex to enable us to understand the true significance of diseased processes.

    399

    The Ibn Tibbon family thus rendered conspicuous services to European culture, and did much to further among Jews who did not understand Arabic the study of science and philosophy.

    400

    The idea of adult baptism, which had after 1525 become generally accepted among them, roused a bitterness which it is rather hard to understand nowadays.

    401

    The kid was hard to read, and she guessed his anger had more to do with his struggle to understand his new role than the vamps who clearly had no respect for him.

    402

    The main cause of the humiliations William suffered from parliament lay in his incapacity to understand the party or cabinet system.

    403

    The Maltese, of whom 86% cannot understand Italian, are still liable to be tried, even for their lives, in Italian, to them a foreign language.

    404

    The old chant of the Salii, called axamenta, was written in the old Saturnian metre, in language so archaic that even the priests themselves could hardly understand it.

    405

    The patrocinium they were made ready to understand by the existence of a somewhat similar institution among themselves, the comitatus, described by Tacitus.

    406

    The people didn't understand.

    407

    The physical geography of Canada is so closely bound up with its geology that at least an outline of the geological factors involved in its history is necessary to understand the present physiography.

    408

    The power of an Ancient is beyond anything humans can understand.

    409

    The praise of the fair sex in the first poem is exceptional in the literature of his age; and its geniality may help us to understand the author's popularity with his contemporaries.

    410

    The problem is a very difficult one and cannot be regarded as definitely settled, but it is difficult to understand why all this additional complexity in the division of the nucleus should be necessary if the final result is only a quantitative separation of the chromatin.

    411

    The Roman case is often misunderstood, because the later Roman writers did not fully understand the case themselves.

    412

    The scientific study of practical problems and difficulties is (generally speaking, and with honourable exceptions) far more advanced in almost every civilized country than it is in England, where the limited scale upon which such work is carried on, the indifference of statesmen, officials and business men, and the incapacity of the public to understand the close relation between scientific study and practical success, contrast very unfavourably with the state of affairs in Germany or the United States.

    413

    The soft bed was warm from her body heat, and she found herself running a hand over the downy comforter while she tried to understand the emotions within her.

    414

    The truth is, without doubt, that the dwellings of the lower classes were still built of reeds and mud, and covered the greater part of the city's area, otherwise it is impossible to understand how a mere handful of Spanish soldiers, without tools and explosives, could so easily have levelled it to the ground.

    415

    Then again, he was a man, and he didn't pretend to understand a woman's mind.

    416

    Then he again opened his eyes and said something none of them could understand for a long time, till at last Tikhon understood and repeated it.

    417

    Then maybe you wouldn't understand but they were what marriage is supposed to be.

    418

    Then, Fitzgerald added, I understand Mr. Dean was in the area, too, though I don't as yet know why.

    419

    There he studied the New Testament in the editions of Erasmus and began to found his preaching on "the Gospel," which he declared to be simple and easy to understand.

    420

    There is also a spiritual chewing of the body of Christ, not such that by it we understand the very food to be changed into spirit, but such that, the body and blood of the Lord abiding in their essence and peculiarity, they are spiritually communicated to us, not in any corporeal way, but in a spiritual, through the Holy Spirit which applies and bestows on us those things which were prepared through the flesh and blood of the Lord betrayed for our sake to death, to wit, remission of sins, liberation and life eternal, so that Christ lives in us and we in him...

    421

    There is one thing I still don't understand – it's out of character.

    422

    There seems no good reason why in modern performances the pianoforte should not be used for the purpose; if only accompanists can be trained to acquire the necessary delicacy of touch, and can be made to understand that, if they cannot extemporize the necessary polyphony, and so have to play something definitely written for them, it is not a mass of interesting detail which they are to bring to the public ear.

    423

    There were some things about the business world Dean would never understand.

    424

    There's no reason I should expect you to understand.

    425

    These last days I've begun to understand this and come to the dreaded decision of what is to become of me.

    426

    They all didn't understand that she couldn't simply run out and get a job like she had in Tulsa.

    427

    They manufacture copper boilers for making sugar and understand several trades, weave ponchos and hammocks and make straw hats.

    428

    They spoke in broken English, but they appeared to understand what she wanted.

    429

    They understand the coming of Christ in the flesh, his works, teaching and sufferings, in a spiritual sense.

    430

    This disposition on the left flank increased Pierre's doubt of his own capacity to understand military matters.

    431

    This is achieved; and Briinnhilde's horror and bewilderment at meeting Siegfried again as a stranger in his own shape creates a situation which Siegfried cannot understand, and which Hagen pretends to construe as damning evidence that Siegfried has betrayed Gunther's honour as well as Briinnhilde's.

    432

    This may best be answered by defining what we understand by health.

    433

    Those who care to understand the contradictions of which such a character was capable should study his correspondence with Vettori.

    434

    Thus we can understand how in Gen.

    435

    Thus, when it is said that the first y ear of the Incarnation corresponds to the first of the 195th Olympiad, we are to understand that it is only with respect to the last six months of that year that the correspondence takes place.

    436

    To appreciate his diagnoses it is necessary to understand certain terms, which unfortunately are not used in the same sense by all authors.

    437

    To understand Lotze's philosophy, a careful and repeated perusal of these works is absolutely necessary.

    438

    To understand the feudal state it is essential to make clear to one's mind that all sorts of services, which men ordinarily owe to the public or to one another, were translated into a form of rent paid for the use of land, and defined and enforced by a private contract.

    439

    To understand the philosophical theory that has come to be known under this title, we may ask (I) what in general it is and how it is differentiated from other theories of knowledge and reality, (2) how it has risen in the history of philosophy, (3) what position it occupies at present in the world of speculation.

    440

    To understand this 17th century renaissance, knowledge of one fact is necessary, namely, that about the year A.D.

    441

    To understand this problem, consider our relationship with knowledge over the centuries.

    442

    To understand this series of Lotze's writings, it is necessary to begin with his definition of philosophy.

    443

    Toby was silent, knowing a normal Immortal could never understand.  He didn't yet have the full power of a real guardian angel, but he should've been able to do more than … nothing.  Angels were placed with human mothers so they could understand the creatures they were meant to take care of.  Human mothers raised them as their own, yet none of his human mothers had gone to the extent Katie did to try to protect him.

    444

    Too surprised to understand what exactly was happening, she obeyed the police officer's instructions to sit down and shut up and sat in the quiet police station reception area.

    445

    Trust us to understand and maybe help.

    446

    Water, I can understand.

    447

    We all understand intuitively there is plenty of food in the world.

    448

    We cannot understand it nor the reason of it.

    449

    We have a natural desire to make beautiful things and a bone-deep need to understand the world we live in and our place in it.

    450

    We have no means of explaining this statement, nor can we fully understand all the incidents connected with his usurpation; but the attempts of modern authors to prove that Gaumata in reality was the genuine Smerdis and Darius a usurper have failed.

    451

    We understand they give swim­ming lessons there.

    452

    We understand what is meant and neither desire nor demand a strict definition.

    453

    We've got an address now and understand he's back from vacation.

    454

    We've got patrols around-- " "Speck doesn't understand that if even a mosquito leaves the town, there's no way we can stop the spread!"

    455

    What he did not understand was that she found his music to be cathartic.

    456

    What I don't understand is why you didn't get Rob to go up there with you.

    457

    What if you can't make them understand?

    458

    What she didn't understand was why a vamp would consider it his job to remind her of her mission.

    459

    When new technology comes out, we generally understand it in terms of what it displaces.

    460

    When they talked to him, he seemed to understand, but he didn't respond.

    461

    When we thus understand its origin, the tradition becomes really instructive, and may be translated into a statement which throws light on a number of points connected with the book, namely, that the Psalter was (finally, at least) collected with a liturgical purpose.

    462

    When we were fortunate enough to find a nest I never allowed her to carry the eggs home, making her understand by emphatic signs that she might fall and break them.

    463

    Whether it was the way he did it or they simply didn't understand, there was no wailing as she had anticipated.

    464

    While she didn't yet understand the depths of her new world, she found peace in knowing this was indeed her world, too.

    465

    While the Malays were famous almost exclusively for their piratical expeditions they naturally bore an evil reputation among Europeans, but now that we have come into closer Character, contact with them,, and have learned to understand aca them better, the old opinions concerning them have been greatly modified.

    466

    Why couldn't a mature male understand that without being told?

    467

    Why couldn't Katie understand that there was a principle involved?

    468

    Why Pete hired you instead of a man, I'll never understand.

    469

    With Goethe, who viewed with interest and appreciation the poetical fashion of treating fact characteristic of the Naturphilosophie, he continued on excellent terms, while on the other hand he was repelled by Schiller's less expansive disposition, and failed altogether to understand the lofty ethical idealism that animated his work.

    470

    With respect to his attacks on the critical philosophy in the Metakritik (1799), it is easy to understand how his concrete mind, ever alive to the unity of things, instinctively rebelled against that analytic separation of the mental processes which Kant attempted.

    471

    With the continuance of military power over details, the public could not understand where responsibility really rested.

    472

    Would she ever understand him?

    473

    Wynn wasn't able to pity her, but he was able to understand the bigger picture.

    474

    Yes, but I don't understand how to use them yet.

    475

    Yes, I understand why Alex doesn't want me to come up here alone.

    476

    Yes, she could understand why she would walk gladly into death's arms.

    477

    Yet it made sense on a level that she didn't quite understand.

    478

    Yet it would seem there had been a still higher pitch used in the old ecclesiastical music. Upon this interesting question Praetorius is confused and difficult to understand, but he never wavers about the transposition of a fourth.

    479

    Yet neither the acts by which their league was ratified nor the terms negotiated for them by their patron Alexander evince the smallest desire of what we now understand as national independence.

    480

    You can never understand.

    481

    You can't be a part of his world, unless you understand what he is.

    482

    You can't understand that or how I feel.

    483

    You cannot discover the relations of the facts of human society without reference to the conditions of animal life; you cannot understand the conditions of animal life without the laws of chemistry; and so with the rest.

    484

    You didn't have the ability to understand.

    485

    You gotta understand these genealogy-type women, he added.

    486

    You Guardians don't understand how to bargain.

    487

    You have to understand.

    488

    You might say I understand better why you feel as you do about Landis.

    489

    You must understand how important that is?

    490

    You must understand I have too much to do here to help you.

    491

    You must understand there is a reason behind what I ask of you that will not become clear for some time.

    492

    You of all people understand how things should work.

    493

    You understand ground and space battles?

    494

    You understand him better than I thought.

    495

    You understand, I need to know as much as possible about the guy who finally landed my girl here.

    496

    You will soon see for yourself, and you will understand everything.

    497

    You wouldn.t understand.

    498

    You.re right, Kris, I can.t understand how you could turn your back on the person who needed you most and justify it with your shortsighted arrogance.

    499

    You'll understand if I don't trust you out of my sight.

    500

    You've got to understand the guy, he didn't want to have any­thing to do with the dough.