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Come, Frank, thou art a scholar; construe me that same fellow, with his blue cap with a cock's feather in it, to show he's of gentle blood, God wot his grey eyes, his yellow hair, his sword with a ton of iron in the handle his grey thread-bare cloak his step like a Frenchman his look like a Spaniard a book at his girdle, and a broad dudgeon-dagger on the other side, to show him half-pedant, half-bully.
It is at once a legislative and a judicial body; in the former capacity it makes law; in the latter capacity it has the power to construe law. It is at once a Congress, if you please, to enact law, and a supreme court to interpret law. Now, then, in admitting women to our General Conference, we are simply construing the Constitution, and not changing the Constitution.
Nevertheless, I wished the Russians to think that I had gone through with the whole ceremony, if they should chance to look back. I felt sure that I could trust the priest to be liberal, but I was not so certain that our lay companions, who were petty traders and peasants, might not be sufficiently fanatical to construe our refusal into disrespect for their church, and resent it in some way.
She used to consult him on passages of French which she could not understand, though her mother was a Frenchwoman, and which he would construe to her satisfaction: and, besides giving her his aid in profane literature, he was kind enough to select for her books of a more serious tendency, and address to her much of his conversation.
It must have been a country of considerable size to have so many monks in it. This means in one sense China, but Fa-Hsien, in his use of the name, was only thinking of the three Ts'in states of which I have spoken in a previous note; perhaps only of that from the capital of which he had himself set out. This sentence altogether is difficult to construe, and Mr.
I wish you to begin and go through it again; for it would be shameful to pretend to have read a book of which you could not construe a page. At the second reading you will, I suppose, be able to double your lessons; so that you may go through it in three weeks. You say nothing of writing or learning Greek verbs; is this practice discontinued? and why? I wish you to go oftener to the house.
"Did he, though?" said Tom; "then Arthur must be wrong." "Of course he is," said Gower "the little prig. We'll only use the crib when we can't construe without it. Go ahead, East." And on this agreement they started Tom, satisfied with having made his confession, and not sorry to have a locus penitentiae, and not to be deprived altogether of the use of his old and faithful friend.
A taste for letters was prevalent among the upper class, and indeed was fashionable among both ladies and gentlemen of rank. In this the court of Elizabeth set the fashion. The daughter of the duchess was taught not only to distill strong waters, but to construe Greek.
"Your humility may construe that into flattery which was said by me in perfect sincerity and truth that I cannot help," replied Edward. "I might have added much more, and yet have been sincere; if you had not reminded me of my not being of gentle birth I might have had the presumption to have told you much more; but I have been rebuked."
Trusting to memory alone, she misdates, mistakes, misplaces; jumbles all things topsy-turvy; giving, on the whole, an image of affairs which is altogether oblique, dislocated, exaggerative; and which, in fine, proves unintelligible, if you try to construe it into a fact or thing DONE. Yet her Human Narrative, in that wide waste of merely Pedant Maunderings, is of great worth to us.
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