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Sentences starting with meaning

Meaning no harm, worthy merchant! [10]

Sentences ending with meaning

Now, ma'am, if you was wantin' to make a long an' fast ride across the sage--say to elope--" Lassiter ended there with dry humor, yet behind that was meaning. [13]
An imaginary case would illustrate his meaning. [4]
These were our words, yet we scarce heeded their meaning. [9]
He scarcely knew what he said, but it had meaning. [11]
Then Madame La Vicomtesse motioned to Andre to leave, and gave me a glance, and it was part of the deep understanding of her I had that I took its meaning. [9]
She tried to understand, but she was breaking, under exhaustion, and she could not gather the meaning. [5]
She did not understand his meaning. [13]
Raising human beings under glass I take to be a metaphorical rather than a literal statement of your meaning. [6]
It was a trifle easier to avoid being specific in that country in his day than it is now, and the document was, in my opinion, sufficiently vague to admit of a double meaning. [9]
When sleep threatened to overpower her she thought of her mother's last words, especially one phrase, "the forge fire of life," which seemed specially pregnant with meaning. [10]

Short sentences using meaning

The Cure's meaning was plain. [11]
I know thy meaning. [11]
He had mistaken Fournel's meaning. [11]
The meaning was clear. [11]
Economy, its meaning, 142. [6]

Sentences containing meaning two or more times

We read that such a man is magnetic, meaning that he can poll a great many votes; or that such a woman thrilled her audience, meaning probably that they were in an electric condition to be shocked by her. [4]
The awkward expression of the ancients, declaring that he 'came down' for our salvation (enlightenment) contains a fact we may prove by experience, if we accept the meaning he put upon existence, and adopt this meaning as our scheme of life. [9]
I am not meaning to be flippant and irreverent, I am only meaning to be truthful. [5]
There may or may not be a difference in the meaning, but it is worth while considering whether there is not also a difference in meaning. [7]
It was ordained it was law it had its meaning, and we know what that meaning was. [5]
Not that he himself dealt in the higher or the lower mathematics, but he saw the hidden spiritual meaning of things as Professor Cayley or Professor Sylvester see the meaning of their mysterious formulae. [6]
The section, if he read its meaning aright, was fraught with the gravest consequences for the Northeastern Railroads; if he read its meaning aright, the Northeastern Railroads had been violating it persistently for many years and were liable for unknown sums in damages. [9]

More example sentences with the word meaning in them

If you call your bosom friend a fool, and intend it for an insult, it is an insult; but if you do it playfully, and meaning no insult, it is not an insult. [5]
Now, for some years it has been inadequate, frequently unintelligible, often grossly misleading, failing wholly to give the real spirit and meaning of the most important discussions; and it is as dry as chips besides. [4]
I may be wrong, but the Tiber has a voice for me, as it whispers to the piers of the Pons Alius, even more full of meaning than my well-beloved Charles eddying round the piles of West Boston Bridge. [6]
The narrator's expressions would only be intelligible to a select few, and, I should have done my Margery injustice, had I left the ideas and descriptions, whose meaning I thoroughly understood, in the clumsy form she had given them. [10]
She heard the words, but they had no meaning to her. [5]
One set of words was the truthful mirror of her thoughts; no others, however apparently identical in meaning, would do. [14]
At the first words O'Ryan put a hand on himself and tried to grasp the meaning of it all, but his entrance and the subsequent applause had confused him. [11]
Hodder read every word of these, and all were in the same strain: at last they could perceive a meaning to religion, an application of it to such plodding lives as theirs . [9]
Ledscha cast a wondering glance sometimes at one object, sometimes at another, but without understanding its meaning or its use. [10]
That," he said, with delicate meaning, "that is another quality I should desire in a woman. [9]
All these memories will be no more, none of them will have any meaning for me. [2]
But the mass, whose meaning she did not understand, offered no solace to the soul which yearned for love alone. [10]
He gave a whining bark almost human in its meaning, and threw himself at the legs of his master, pushing him backwards and over towards the road leading upon the bridge, as a collie guides sheep. [11]
To add interpretations which would convey the right meaning is a something which would require --what? [5]
The mode in which this knowledge was pressed into service on all occasions to express his meaning and illustrate his thoughts was quite unexampled. [5]
It is doubtful whether Kamehameha approved of the plan of the chiefs and priests to sacrifice men, as he was known to say, 'The men are sacred for the King;' meaning that they were for the service of his successor. [5]
The only point where the mind and meaning of the man worked according to the law of his life was at the eye, where the monocle was caught now as in a vise. [11]
It was only when we had got into the carriage and started for the house and she turned to me her face from which the veil had been thrown back that I realized what a sublime meaning it all had for her. [9]
My idlest babble, when I am toying with the trifles that fall in my way, if not very full of meaning, is at least musical. [6]
When she saw what she had done, she knew the reason of it and the meaning of it; and she put her work away from her and said she would accept the sign. [5]
Not so much what Rhodo had said as the meaning in his voice, aroused her to a situation which she must face. [11]
He is getting what he wants now," she added, with such obvious meaning that I found no words to reply. [9]
His friends who were not "saved," closed in on him to find the meaning of his words, but he pulled himself together, looked blankly at them, and asked them questions. [11]
The right words were easy to the master, and with them he had given the clumsy sentence meaning and significance. [10]
She knew full well the meaning of the deep lines that marked his lips and brow; for Porphyrius had never made any secret of his distress and vexation whenever he found himself compelled to confess a creed in which he did not honestly believe. [10]
One of our well meaning reptiles--I mean relic-hunters--had crawled up there and was trying to break a "specimen" from the face of this the most majestic creation the hand of man has wrought. [5]
The Persians had watched this scene and obtained an explanation of its meaning from their interpreter. [10]
Her double meaning was, naturally, lost on Farrar, but he enjoyed the thing hugely, nevertheless, as more or less applicable to Mr. Allen. [9]
But his intellect was superficial, and his temperament was dangerous, because there were not the experiences of a soul of truth to give the deeper hold upon the meaning of life. [11]
The tailor's meaning was sufficiently clear: if they had come to see him personally, then it was natural for him to wish to know the names and stations of his guests, and their business. [11]
And while Wetherell was pondering over the possible meaning of these words the Honorable Alva Hopkins entered, wreathed in smiles, and closed the door behind him. [9]
But the mountaineer was gone mad, and did not grasp the meaning of the words. [11]
But now they wanted her to sacrifice the very thing that constituted the whole reward for her self-sacrifice and the whole meaning of her life. [2]
It was in virtue of this that his rare genius acted on so many minds as a trumpet call to awaken them to the meaning and the privileges of this earthly existence with all its infinite promise. [6]
Where did this virile, blood-full, throbbing Russian literature come from; this Russian painting of Verestchagin, that smites us like a sword with the consciousness of the tremendous meaning of existence? [4]
Tortured by rage, vexation, and sincere distress, she said in a complaining voice, while the tears started to her eyes: "But what is the meaning of all this? [10]
He will be very liable to misquote his author's meaning while he is picking off his outside sentences. [3]
Sometime shall the veil between The things that are and that might have been Be folded back for our eyes to see, And the meaning of all shall be clear to me. [11]
This was the Vale of the Blue, and she had touched it with meaning for him, and gone. [9]
Pierre was so used to that smile, and it had so little meaning for him, that he paid no attention to it. [2]
Three dayes they used this Ceremony: the meaning whereof they told him was to know if he intended them well or no. [4]
The various words used in building them are in the dictionary, but in a very scattered condition; so you can hunt the materials out, one by one, and get at the meaning at last, but it is a tedious and harassing business. [5]
When she took up the first book on Physiology which Dr. Butts handed her, it seemed to him that if she only opened at any place, and gave one look, her mind drank its meaning up, as a moist sponge absorbs water. [6]
So they remained, until presently his eyes lost their meaning, though they still remained vacantly fixed upon the white image. [6]
She caught the unfinished word in its flight and took it straight into her open heart, divining the secret meaning of all Pierre's mental travail. [2]
He has not undertaken to say that Trumbull tells a lie about these words being stricken out, but he is really, when pushed up to it, only taking an issue upon the meaning of the words. [7]
They did not understand my words, but they grasped the meaning, and one of them, the leader, who understood English, was inclined to have reason. [11]
She read it twice before the full meaning of it came to her, and after that she could not well mistake it,--the language being so admirable in every way. [9]
What was the true meaning of her actions? [11]
Soft act, faint touch, no meaning did it bear To any save myself, who felt the air Of a new feeling cross my soul's clear sight. [11]
The change that took place in Natasha at first surprised Princess Mary; but when she understood its meaning it grieved her. [2]
He had often told her that she could read his soul like an open book, but she did not conceal from herself that there were certain sides of that complex structure whose meaning she was incapable of comprehending. [10]
Now we begin to think that there was some meaning in our poor couplet. [6]
She looked first to the left, then to the right, then straight before her, apparently without seeing anything, and at last slowly settled down, with her two eyes, blank of any particular meaning, directed upon the Colonel. [6]
I have tried to repeat this lad's very words; if I have failed anywhere I have at least not failed to reproduce the marrow and meaning of what he said. [5]
Lopez understood how to read their meaning, and asked: "So it is not the bailiffs you fear; something else is troubling you? [10]
The man tried to mumble out some words--could not succeed; tried to express something with his obstructed hands--failed; paused a moment, then feebly tilted his head, in a meaning way, toward the corpse that lay nearest him. [5]
The compassionate impulse to lighten the lot of a sufferer, which had before drawn her so strongly to Caracalla, had now lost its sense and meaning for this healthy, high-spirited man. [10]
Accordingly I wrote to Herr J. von Fischer to ask what he supposed was the meaning of this strange action, and he has sent me two long letters full of new and curious details, which will, I hope, be hereafter published. [1]
When Andreas came to her side and pointed to the centurion, saying that without him he would never have succeeded in saving her beloved, she heard it only as a hollow murmur, without any consciousness of its meaning. [10]
Formerly we used to go to sleep in the lecture-hall; but his words carry us away, and if we do not take in the full meaning of his thoughts, yet we feel that they are genuine and noble. [10]
When Oropastes attempted to explain to him the celebrated Babylonian sun-dial, introduced by Anaximander of Miletus into Greece, he turned from the Magian with a scornful laugh, saying: "We knew all this, before you knew the meaning of an hour. [10]
It is charitable to believe that they do not seriously contemplate or truly understand the meaning of the words they use, but rather play with them, as certain so-called "learned" quadrupeds play with the printed characters set before them. [6]
She did not, to be sure, understand its meaning, but she felt as though it must have some deep significance. [10]
I may seem to be flattering the sun, but I do not mean it so; I am meaning only to be just and fair all around. [5]
It pleased her to be able to play the hostess, according to the meaning of the word in her parents' house. [10]
For the first time since the Revolution had begun, the horror of it and the meaning of it were brought home to him. [11]
This study always throws a flood of light upon the meaning of the text of an old author, the same light that the reader unconsciously has upon contemporary pages dealing with the life with which he is familiar. [4]
She forgot little threads that hold life's patches of meaning together. [5]
Coincidences meaning nothing, though a man have a monopoly of the disease for weeks or months; or cause and effect, the cause being in some way connected with the person; this is the question. [3]
I lived again those moments that had followed Nancy's surrender, seeking to recall and fix in my mind every word that had escaped from her lips--the trivial things that to lovers are so fraught with meaning. [9]
It was at this moment that the butler handed her a telegram, which, with Mrs. Holt's permission, she opened and read twice before the meaning of it came to her. [9]
People have called this kind of war "guerrilla warfare" and assume that by so calling it they have explained its meaning. [2]
Mr. Hue I think it is, who tells us some very good stories about the way in which two Chinese gentlemen contrive to keep up a long talk without saying a word which has any meaning in it. [6]
He wanted to think and think of the meaning, but he resolutely dispelled emotion. [13]
He heard what they said, but did not understand the meaning of the words and made no kind of deduction from or application of them. [2]
Hunt is what they call a 'safe' man, meaning by that a man who will do what Mr. Flint wants him to do. [9]
Let me sweeten these closing paragraphs of an essay not meaning to hold a word of bitterness with a passage or two from the lay-preacher who is listened to by a larger congregation than any man who speaks from the pulpit. [6]
And here and there some simple soul, more gifted than his comrades, may touch off the meaning of it all, as it appears to those who hold their lives in their hands for a nation's sake, by a stroke of mordant comment. [11]
No, I replied; there is meaning in each of those images,--the butterfly as well as the others. [6]
She did not then follow her first impulse to show that she saw the real meaning of that speech, and rise and say, "You are insulting," and bid her good-day. [11]
When I heard them--and saw the shiny trees--and the blue sky--and then a blaze of gold dropping down--I wondered--" She did not complete her fancy, but Venters imagined he understood her meaning. [13]
Some one of them, keener-eyed than the rest, had seen that there was a meaning and virtue in this unsuccessful book, for which there was a new audience educated since it had tried to breathe before its time. [6]
He now understood the whole meaning and importance of this war and of the impending battle. [2]
Some time shall the veil between The things that are, and that might have been Be folded back for our eyes to see, And the meaning of all be clear to me. [11]
Then will come the usual talk about a change in the character of disease, which has about as much meaning as that concerning "old-fashioned snow-storms. [3]
They belong to the universities of learning, and today they have no more ecclesiastic meaning than do the gorgeous robes of the Oxford chancellor and vice-chancellor and the scarlet hood. [4]
As he travelled the streets he needed all his fortitude, for his fiery speech had gone abroad, distorted from its meaning, and the common folk railed at him. [11]
Only now in the stillness of the night, reading it by the faint light under the green shade, did he grasp its meaning for a moment. [2]
But he knew the spirit behind the question, and the meaning justified the man. [11]
It is as the sound of a bell in the distance, a familiar note with a new meaning, revealing new things of life in the panorama of the mind. [11]
His smile and the shake of his head at the club when talk was personal conveyed a world of meaning. [4]
Then she recollected the severe punishment she had once suffered, because, when she was still quite little, and without meaning any harm, she had taken her father's water-clock to pieces, and had spoiled it. [10]
Before Pollux left the room the Emperor gave him the tablets with the verses and begged him, with a meaning smile, to desire the gate-keeper at the Caesareum to give them to Annaeus Florus the Roman. [10]
Often, listening to the pilgrims' tales, she was so stimulated by their simple speech, mechanical to them but to her so full of deep meaning, that several times she was on the point of abandoning everything and running away from home. [2]
But I was the only person in all that throng who knew the meaning of this mighty birth, and what this imperial magician was come into the world to do. [5]
She came across the moonlight without speaking, but he exclaimed in a sharp tone: "What is the meaning of this? [10]
That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself. [13]
Lord Faramond caught the meaning, and smiled grimly. [11]
What could be the meaning of this? [5]

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