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Updated: May 13, 2025
She watched the advance to the edge of the platform of that tall, beautiful figure in the shining dress which it would have been an understatement to call sky-blue, unless one predicated that the sky was Italian, and rejoiced that nature had so appropriately given such a saint a halo of gold hair.
I remember how a Winchester boy, when he was reproached with the fact that Winchester has produced hardly any great men, replied, 'No, indeed, I should think not. We would pretty soon have knocked that out of them. And the epigrams of the English temper usually take the form of understatement.
It is an understatement to say that no appreciable harm would be caused by, and substantial benefit would accrue from, decreasing the amount of printing now done by at least one-half.
A condition of healthy life so nearly resembling the torpor of death is a noticeable thing of its sort; to exhibit the inertness of the desert, and at the same time to be exercising powers akin to those of the meadow, and even of the forest, awakened in those who thought of it the attentiveness usually engendered by understatement and reserve.
He can manage to do as he would be done by, fairly well in the next yard. But how about doing as one would be done by with ninety million people all sizes, all climates, all religions, Buffalo, New Orleans, Seattle? How about doing as one would be done by three thousand miles? It is an understatement to say, as we look about our modern world, that Christianity has not been tried yet.
He hasn't any more of an idea of what he possesses by legal right than the man I discovered driving in a cart one of the best hunters I ever had in my stables. To say that he doesn't appreciate you is a ludicrous understatement. Any woman would have done for him." "Please don't!" she implored him. "Please don't!"
"Then do you think the net result of the census is to make it seem that there are more people in the country than really are here?" "No," the Inspector replied confidently, "the total figures are an understatement, probably of about one per cent, maybe a little less, but certainly not much more." "I think that's mighty close," Hamilton said.
And I want you to know that I have no intention whatever of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do for the people of the United States. Now, needless to say, it would be understatement if I were not to admit that the year 1973 was not a very easy year for me personally or for my family.
He said this but in considering his time in the toilet it was a vast understatement. "He tells it the way he sees it." "Good. I like that sometimes all the time really, as long as it is in limits not stuck on the bad which is vicious nor on the good to obtain an advantage. Then I guess it is fine fine for me. Did you came in at the last stop." "Two or three back. Udom Thani.
To say that they had also the authority of the Church is something of an understatement; for religion ran like a rich thread through the rude tapestry of these popular things while they were still merely popular; and many a trade society must have had a patron saint long before it had a royal seal.
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