Understood

Examples

• Her feelings were very acute, and too little understood to be properly attended to. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Putting out my hand I felt several coats hanging from the wall, and I understood that I was in a passage. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• At the old lodgings it was understood that he was summoned to Dover, and, in fact, he was taken down the Dover road and cornered out of it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• A certain great traveller, who understood the Indians and their language, had figured in Mr. Seegrave's report, hadn't he? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It seemed it was a very funny joke if you understood it properly. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• But one thing was the stars, when I really understood something about the stars. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It's understood, then? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• She had all her wits about her, and she certainly understood her business. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The sovereignty of the king is therefore easily understood. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I understood that you were writing a report of this case, said he. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Not that there was any particular harm in the man beyond his cocoa trees; but we never suited nor understood each other. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Their surgeons understood the use of an?sthetics, and performed some of the most difficult operations known. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Preserve a certain order; do not attempt to jump from the ground to the gable, but rise gradually from what is simple and easily understood. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• He understood the various processes of handling wool and cotton, although his own work lay outside them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• But he understood a good deal of what was said, nevertheless. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• In the meanwhile let it be fully understood that I shall not neglect bringing the grindstone to bear, nor yet bringing Dusty Boffin's nose to it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I never understood it from Aunt Shaw; I only knew he could not come back to England because of that terrible affair. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I was so entirely unacquainted with the subject that I understood nothing about it even then. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I also perfectly understood English and German. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Her hero himself only half understood her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But there in my country it is understood that a man may love God. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I understood that very well. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I always wished I could have understood Siemens's explanations of the points of those stories. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They understood how difficult it is to transmit knowledge without putting initiative in jeopardy and that quiet int ellect is easily dismayed in the presence of bold speech. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• In a thick crowd of sounds, but still intelligibly enough to be understood. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I had silently feared St. John till now, because I had not understood him. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• These propositions will be most readily understood by looking to our domestic races. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• I never understood the phrase 'child of Nature' until I saw Caliphronas, and it is the only way in which he can be explained. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• If they could have seen dead Johnny on that little bed, would they have understood it? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She believed he was very clever, and understood every thing. Jane Austen. Emma.

Editor: Sharon