Interpreted

Examples

• Sir James interpreted the heightened color in the way most gratifying to himself, and thought he never saw Miss Brooke looking so handsome. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Lee interpreted this as a semi-retreat of the Army of the Potomac to Fredericksburg, and so informed his government. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Mrs Plornish interpreted in her Italian manner, on behalf of Mr Pancks, 'E please. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Facts are marshaled, the news of the day is interpreted to show that men are determined by economic conditions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I interpreted what she said to my nephew, who immediately seized hold of the delicate Carlo, saying, Come along with me, little Boney. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• And still there arises another question: Are friends to be interpreted as real or seeming; enemies as real or seeming? Plato. The Republic.
• Then it was that we interpreted his command. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The shorter, more frequent waves of the ocean would typify the short, rapid waves which leave the sun, and which on reaching us are interpreted as light. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• If they were cold, yet how perversely this fond little soul interpreted them into warmth. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Surely I am not expected to repeat my niece's maid's explanation of her tears, interpreted in the English of my Swiss valet? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• You and he have had a lovers' quarrel--and my foolish son has interpreted it seriously. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The Frenchman would have been a very much surprised man could he have interpreted the true meaning of the girl's words. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• This was interpreted to mean: First, the parts will fit; second, they will almost fit; third, they do not fit, and can't be made to fit. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She interpreted it, that he had made a deep confession of love to her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Was short in his leaps and bad in his tumbling,' Mr. Childers interpreted. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The long, slow swell of the ocean would correspond with the longer, slower waves which travel out from the sun, and which on reaching us are interpreted as heat. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The splendid epochs will be interpreted as monuments of man's creation, not of his propulsion. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Aristotle, however, interpreted the lower by the hig her and not vice versa. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I interpreted it as a warning of disaster. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The dark hint, the obscure whisper, which have haunted me from childhood, are interpreted. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

Edited by Kitty