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He remembered something—the cherished pose of being a man plunged fathoms-deep in business.

Hilda, trembling at the door, more than half expected Mr. Orgreave to say: "You mean, she's invited herself."

He wanted to tell her that if she called her father, it would mean the end of everything for them, but he withheld this.

It was difficult, with the mean appliances of the time, to wring subsistence from the reluctant earth.

With Bacon, experientia does not always mean observation; and may mean either experience or experiment.

A letter from Fajardo to the king (December 10, 1621) concerns various matters of administration and business.

My husband detests them; on the contrary, I like those carriages, for they tell me of happy—I mean to say, of former times.

I mean it is well my mother is ill, and doesn't wish to eat, for there would be nothing for her, if she did.

Moreover, Napoleon, so great in many things, was so jealous of his own glory that he could be mean beyond words.

The father of Mr. Stacy Marks predestined him for the coach-building business.

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