Word: meant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have no followers? [She does not answer, and he goes on.] Honest and capable? [Aside.] I suppose the old lady meant me to ask straight ahead...
...then what a luxury it was to sit and muse over his adored! He wrote a dissertation on whether a rose (he meant his Rose) by any other name would have been as sweet. He decided not, in case the other name were Bridget or Maria. One thing troubled him not a little: though he could recall separately every one of the features of his captivatress, - including her delightful little retrousse nose (vulgar and ignorant people spoke of it as a "pug"), - he could not, for the life of him, picture her face as a whole. One day, however, Snifkins...
...hope so; why not?" Not much in themselves, these words; but the tone was so low, so pleading, so hopeful, and withal so sweet, that the answer meant much...
...great deal more in the same language; and one boy said it was Ponca, and meant that Mr. Wendell Parnell would discuss the Irish question in Holden basement. Another said it had just come over from Assos, and was a Christmas card designed by Agamemnon. But whatever it was, my aunt swooned at the sight and was carried to the college hospital, where, surrounded by luxury and a circle of happy friends, she died...
Here the ??? man was interrupted by some one who approached and asked him what he meant by spelling his name, which was Brown, in the more muscular fashion, Brawn. Henry did not wait to hear the answer to this dispute but hastened...