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See if you can "understande" this, "becoz" I am going to try and explain it slow.

MetsBlog.com 2009

This is the joke of the century…and the last thing we need in the white house is someone who does not understande that my 83 year-old mother who is caught right in the middle of a nasty marriage, separation, property settlement, and divorce is not able to ever make back what she has lost in her remaining elder years and neither am I.

The Ultimate Humiliation « Whatever 2006

Marry these other pleasaunt fault-finders, who will correct the Verbe, before they understande the Nowne, and confute others knowledge, before they confirme their owne, I would have them onely remember, that scoffing commeth not of wisedome; so as the best title in true English they get with their meriments, is to be called good fooles: for so have our grave forefathers ever tearmed that humorous kinde of jesters.

Defence of Poesie 1992

This proclamation after it was read, was for a time hunge up in the Hall, that every man might the better understande the qualitie of his owne place, and they that were of lower, or no place, might learne what duety to performe to others.

Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson

"The French King," wrote Throkmorton to his royal mistress, "alredy hathe geven him (the constable) to understande, that the Cardinal of Lorrain and the Duke of Guise shal manage his hole affairs."

The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird

In all other particulars, he filled his place plentifully, beinge sufficiently versed in languages, to understande any that is used in businesse, and to make himselfe agayne understoode: To speake of his integrity, and his high disdayne of any bayte that might seeme to looke towards corruption, in tanto viro, injuria virtutum fuerit.

Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

The whole passage about the coldness and selfishness of Arundel's nature on p. 31, ll. 12-30, was omitted, as likewise the allusion to his ignorance on p. 30, ll. 25-7, 'wheras in truth he was only able to buy them, never to understande them.'

Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

He was willinge to be thought a scholar, and to understande the most misterious partes of Antiquity, because he made a wounderfull and costly purchase of excellent statues whilst he was in Italy and in Rome (some wherof he could never obtayne permission to remoove from Rome, though he had payd for them) and had

Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

And if they did so in those toongs, where they had so many, and so great helpes, and in toongs which were helpes to one another; they that understande, will easily acknowledge the difference betwixt my paines and theirs: yet I desire no pre-eminence of thankes; but either equall thankes, or equall excuse.

Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897

There is no manne so blynd as he that will not see, nor so dull as he that will not understande.

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