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Sentences starting with means

Means to marry her, if she is his cousin. [6]
Means he is going to the hotel. [5]
Means to send Ben Franklin to college. [6]

Sentences ending with means

You carried out your undertaking well to the end, though by somewhat overpowering means. [10]
I tell you, your honour, it means the way out--that's what it means. [11]
But if you will have the truth: the fish-knife business by all means. [11]
Do you know what that wheeze means? [5]
We must see what my lord means. [10]
Don't you see what it means? [11]
I know better what it means. [10]
Do you know what it all means? [6]
But we know what it all means. [10]
Let's show 'em what business means. [11]

Short sentences using means

He means murder, y'r honour. [9]
He used no underhand means. [6]
It means nothing to me. [11]
What should be the means? [11]
He means mischief, sure. [5]
It means grasshopper soup. [5]
That means the Rev. [6]
But it means nothing. [11]
That's what it means. [8]
Oh, no--by no means. [5]

Sentences containing means two or more times

If the spirit which imbued the founders of this nation means anything, Mr. Bass, it means that the able men who are given a chance to rise by their own efforts must still retain the duties and responsibilities of the humblest citizens. [9]
Still, now and then one saves a reminiscence that means a good deal by means of a casual question. [6]
They clap on the brakes by means of opium; they change the maddening monotony of the rhythm by means of fermented liquors. [6]
But there is one in the party who knows what this harbor means and what the lay of the land means. [5]
Work means money, money means bread, bread means life--so. [11]
The word fountain means one thing in Syria, where there is but a handful of people; it means quite another thing in North America, where there are 75,000,000. [5]
I have the means here," and he tapped his pocket, "I have the means here to set me on my feet again, Madame. [9]
Your word 'stout' means 'fleshy'; our word 'stout' usually means 'strong. [5]
It means, if it means anything, that our outlying properties will all be given up by the Democrats, and our flag hauled down. [5]
From the curiously diversified means for producing various sounds, we gain a high idea of the importance of this means of courtship. [1]

More example sentences with the word means in them

At last, the youth succeeded, by means of the cleverest trick I ever saw, in clasping his opponent firmly. [10]
He is licking your hands, that means, 'I thank you. [10]
A perfectly gentlemanly young man, of courteous address and mild utterance, but means at least as much as he says. [6]
It will tell you, too, what it means to me, and what I see before us. [11]
I can tell you what it means, if you--if you--" "Oh, all right! [5]
If I give you the sure means to win your election, it would be worth while--eh? [11]
My note to you only means that if you know of any such thing rendering a suspension of the execution proper, on your own judgment, you are at liberty to suspend it. [7]
Of the reports you mention, I have not the means of seeing any except your own. [7]
This means that you have not six months to live. [5]
She told how you had followed a fox over one of your rough provincial counties, which means three of Hertfordshire, with your arm broken, by Heaven! [9]
But what can you expect of a chief justice who need not be a lawyer, as this one is not, and has other means of earning income which, though not disloyal, are lowering to the status of a chief justice? [11]
It means that you can't skip out on any such--" Tracy made a step toward the old man, but Mrs. Marsh sprang between, and said: "Don't, Mr. Tracy, please. [5]
A rest means you are not to sing it. [5]
I do not yet see the means which would give me courage to begin the attack. [10]
For some years yet he must continue to earn his daily bread by the sweat of his brow, having absolutely no means, no home, no friend to consult. [7]
This is a yearning after beauty and ornamentation which has no other means of gratifying itself. [4]
It means X Y Z and the grand finale! [11]
Privileges like these would render the possession of such securities to the amount limited most desirable to every person of small means who might be able to save enough for the purpose. [7]
Now, if they would make the effort in good temper, could they not with nearly equal unanimity frame and pass a law by means of which to keep good that unanimous oath? [7]
Mr. Davis's pamphlet would hardly be complete without a mysterious letter from an unnamed writer, whether a faithless friend, a disguised enemy, a secret emissary, or an injudicious alarmist, we have no means of judging for ourselves. [6]
If necessary, she would find means to thrust him also aside, spite of his sister Charmian and the old tie which united him to Cleopatra. [10]
The Federal Government would find its highest interest in such a measure, as one of the most efficient means of self-preservation. [7]
And whereas he would by no means consent, the dispute was taken up by others present and Jorg Loffelholz devised the fancy of holding a Court of Love to decide the case. [10]
But the matter would be dangerous, because the singer's friends were numerous and by no means powerless. [10]
Most of the world has now outlived good part of these harms, though by no means all of them; but in our South they flourish pretty forcefully still. [5]
The mission of woman, about which we are pretty weary of hearing, is not accomplished by any means in her years of vernal bloom and loveliness; she has equal power to bless and sweeten life in the autumn of her pilgrimage. [4]
Anna Mikhaylovna, practical woman that she was, had even managed by favor with army authorities to secure advantageous means of communication for herself and her son. [2]
The great position, without the means of respectably maintaining it--there could be no wisdom in that. [5]
So again, species within the same large genus by no means resemble each other to the same degree: on the contrary, some of them can generally be arranged in little groups round other species, like satellites round planets. [1]
That means trouble with the directors, the stockholders, and calls for explanations. [9]
It lies wholly with the customer whether he will injure himself by means of either, or will derive from them the benefits which they will afford him if he uses their possibilities judiciously. [5]
We are threatened with national annihilation, and defied to use the only means of national preservation. [6]
Slender date-palms covered with golden fruit were scattered in every direction over the fields, which were thoroughly irrigated by means of canals and ditches. [10]
Fire is fought with fire, and you would be using all possible means to do what you esteem a great good. [11]
Caesar had come with a force by no means equal to theirs, and it might be possible to draw the mighty general into a snare. [10]
My friend Archibius wishes me a long life, if any one does; but he is as wise as he is faithful, and therefore will consider that earthly life is by no means a boon in every case. [10]
I chose to win you by personal means alone, to have you give yourself to Tinoir Doltaire because you set him before any other man. [11]
We accompanied Mr. Wilton to a room, and examined the matter as fully as we could with the means afforded us. [7]
Such a confession will probably flow more easily from the lips when sought by the person for whom it means happiness or despair, than when a stranger--even one as old and friendly as I--seeks to draw it from a modest maiden. [10]
Frau Friedrich, the wife of the man in charge of the fountains, kept a neat inn, in which, however, she by no means dished up to all persons what they would like. [10]
Tell Neithotep, in whose hands thou art as wax, that he has found the best means of forcing me to grant demands, which otherwise I should have refused. [10]
This attack was wholly unexpected, and therefore no means of defense had been provided. [7]
Of all those who, with every means at their disposal, have tried to conquer Lee, he is the only one who has in any manner succeeded. [9]
Even the priest who visited him several times was by no means kindly disposed towards her. [10]
As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and, next, no one left to borrow from, so must it be with a government. [7]
Mr. Buxton, however, who had excellent means of observation (11. [1]
At that time while with his regiment in Poland, a Polish landowner of small means had forced him to marry his daughter. [2]
New poetry; by which, he says, he means chiefly old poetry that is new to the reader. [6]
The guilt for which she was threatened with punishment was by no means small, and even if her earthly judge did not call her to account, she would go to confession to-morrow and honestly perform the penance imposed. [10]
The means by which she had intended to destroy him had been transformed into a benefit, and while in the desert he had perceived how often man finally blesses, as the highest gain, what he at first regarded as the most cruel affliction. [10]
In the interview which Father Damon sought with Dr. Leigh at the Women's Hospital all this was explained, and ways and means were discussed for help elsewhere. [4]
In the town where she lived was a lady of honorable condition, somewhat past middle age, who was possessed of pretty ample means, of cultivated tastes, of excellent principles, of exemplary character, and of more than common accomplishments. [6]
He added that, when his patience was at an end, he should positively insist on its surrender and bring every means at his disposal into play to procure it. [10]
We know now what War means, and we cannot look its dull, dead ghastliness in the face unless we feel that there is some great and noble principle behind it. [6]
You don't understand what that means, because you're not one. [9]
What alterations, or what provisions in the way of altering, were going on in committee, Trumbull had no means of knowing, until the altered bill was reported back. [7]
How, or by what means, he was connected with the great event foretold in the Apocalypse he did not know, but he did not doubt that connection for a moment. [2]
You don't know what it means, or you'd come home with me. [9]
You can see what it means to me, with this order on my hands. [9]
He knew now what it means to live bereft of light, and, he added in a low tone, to be also poor and unable to earn his daily bread. [10]
I know now what Homer means by "wandering islands. [4]
I cannot see what he means by parading these resolutions, if it is not to hold me responsible for them in some way. [7]
You don't know what discipline means, perhaps. [11]
Curious to see what changes time had wrought, she peered through the by no means narrow crack and overlooked the minister's spacious office, where he was now entirely alone with the Councillor Viglius. [10]
If you have, what can you want that you have not means to procure? [11]
If such means were suddenly doubled in Great Britain, our number would be quickly doubled. [1]
But few seconds were needed for these reflections, and as he was accustomed when need arose to control himself, he said: "We must see--some means must be found--" and then without any greeting to his host, he slowly returned to his own house. [10]
A hundred eyes were fastened upon the canvas-covered statue, which had been the means of the young man's undoing. [11]
Yet the consequences were by no means light, for when he, Pyramus, left him, he was barely able to totter from one chair to another. [10]
The Vicomte's feelings were by no means hidden processes to Honora, and it was as though she could lift the lid of the furnace at any time and behold the growth of the flame which she had lighted. [9]
Indeed, my clothes were by no means handsome, and save for my well-shaven face and clean handkerchief I was an ill-favoured spectacle; but I tried to bear my shoulders up as we marched through dark reeking corridors, and presently came suddenly into well-lighted passages. [11]
Among the company were also Captains Martin, Archer, Wood, Webbe, Moore, King, Davis, and several gentlemen of good means, and a crowd of the riff-raff of London. [4]
And then Hicks went on, with a serious air, "Colonel, if you register a letter, it means that it is of value, doesn't it? [5]
He comprehended perfectly well that Dryfoos had made him that extraordinary embassy because he wished him to renew his visits, and he easily imagined the means that had brought him to this pass. [8]
Let whoever means well go the town-hall, and demand a surrender before it is too late. [10]
It means, generally, weight and height, an advantage in a scrimmage. [11]
For some time we tried the hook-rope and other means of scaling it, but without success--that is, without perfect success. [5]
But per'aps if we keep them till they're ransomed, it means that we keep them till they're dead. [5]
What we wanted we got not by defying the world, but by conforming to it: we were ready to defy only when our desires overcame the resistance of our synapses, and even then not until we should have exhausted every legal and conventional means. [9]
Prayer means that we desire to, and will, walk in the light so far as we receive it, even though with bleeding footsteps, and waiting patiently on the Lord, will leave our real desires to be rewarded by Him. [5]
It shows what we could do without means, and what people can do with talent and energy when they find it in people like us. [5]
He had limitless ways and means and powers at his disposal for preparing and strengthening the case for the prosecution, and he used them all. [5]
Interchanged in any way you please it cannot be made to mean anything different from what it means when put in any other way. [5]
It means a watching every hour, every minute--thee can never take the eye off it. [11]
But seriously a Washoe wind is by no means a trifling matter. [5]
Whatever the reason was, he furnished her with means, not only for her necessary expenses, but sufficient to afford her many of the elegances which she would be like to want in the fashionable society with which she was for a short time to mingle. [6]
Philip's first motion was to stand up and say: "I dare not think your Highness means in very truth to make me your kinsman in the succession. [11]
Still, large as was the promised sum, it would by no means be sufficient to save the Eysvogel business from ruin. [10]
To Philip it was the first time in his life that a picnic had ever seemed a defensible means of getting rid of a day. [4]
Her first thought was that she had been doing herself a harm by some deadly means or other. [6]
When their cage was shaken, they would lift their heads and spring their rattles; but the sound was by no means so formidable to listen to as when it reverberated among the chasms of the echoing rocks. [6]
The Emperor Charles was sending the old man far away that the happiness of her love might be undisturbed and unclouded, and the consciousness weighed heavily upon her by no means unduly sensitive conscience. [10]
They declared there was only one physician in the place and he was arrested every week regularly and held to answer under the vagrant act for having "no visible means of support. [5]
Her inventive brain was now busy in devising means to induce the Syrian to undertake its execution. [10]
To her this was not a means of livelihood, but simply that she might be of service to those all about her who needed help more than she did. [4]
Though her voice was no longer so free from sharpness and harshness as in the old days, it by no means jarred upon the ear; nay, every tone revealed its admirable training. [10]
My father, who was my instructor, my companion, my dearest and best friend through all my later youth and my earlier manhood, died three years ago and left me my own master, with the means of living as might best please my fancy. [6]
True, his greeting was more eager and cordial than the genuine "sosiego"--which means "repose"--would have permitted. [10]
Before the "Sketch-Book" was launched, and while Irving was casting about for the means of livelihood, Walter Scott urged him to take the editorship of an anti-Jacobin periodical in Edinburgh. [4]
How quiet it was in the square in those late autumn days, and yet not lifeless by any means! [4]

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