Understands

Examples

• Nobody understands thee. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• She will be glad: nobody here understands her: Madame Fairfax is all English. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Of course he understands his own affairs. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Standing as a spokesman of an actual social revolt, he has not lost his vision because he understands its function. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He neither speaks nor understands any European tongue--and his ornaments and weapons are those of the West Coast savages. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• I must familiarise my style--but she understands it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• No, sir, we have strong reason to believe that he already understands that he has acted in an indiscreet and hot-headed manner. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• These children are wiser than we are, and I have no doubt the boy understands every word I have said to him. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• But a man who understands the machine is the man who knows what he is about. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• And who understands them? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Why, though I'm umble, I'm useful to him, you know; and he understands his interest when he isn't in liquor! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The reader now understands, as well as I do, what I was when I came to that point of my youthful history to which I am now coming again. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Woodrow Wilson understands easily, but he does not incarnate: he has never been a part of the protest he speaks. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He understands the catechism of his trade. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• But I suppose if Moore understands me that will do, will it not? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Joseph, turn it a little towards Mr. Ladislaw--Mr. Ladislaw, having been abroad, understands the merit of these things, you observe. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• At first I thought he might be Tarzan of the Apes; but he neither speaks nor understands English, so that theory is untenable. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• But its true and proper name is belief, which is a term that every one sufficiently understands in common life. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• What the pupil learns he at least understands. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I fully understands my instructions, do I, Sir? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Then, that's the wery best reason wy you should alvays have somebody by you as understands you, to keep you up and make you comfortable. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Sergeant Cuff understands it, my lady, I answered. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I wish William could get a job as gardener or summat i' that way; he understands gardening weel. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The less the court understands of all this, the more the court likes it, and the greater enjoyment it has in the stock in trade of the Sol's Arms. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• This woman understands me, Mr. Tulkinghorn thinks as she lets her glance fall again. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But I used to; and he understands. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Mrs. Bagnet understands them. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The best and dearest Englishwoman in the world understands them. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• You only understand what you want; Tom understands cost and come to; and there may be some end to money, bye and bye if we don't let somebody do that. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I don't think Granny understands her, or uncle Lovell Mingott either; they really think she's much worldlier and fonder of society than she is. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.

Edited by Juanita