tell the meaning of
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No great spokesman arose in the U. S. to tell the meaning of this contest.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Newspapers must tell the meaning of the news .
From Time Magazine Archive
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And yet she would have been puzzled to tell the meaning of the expression, for it did not look like a threatening one.
From Verner's Pride by Wood, Henry, Mrs.
"Ay, ay," said one of the company; "the gitanilla can tell the meaning of a wrinkle."
From The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
His gesture speaks, but hard to tell the meaning of it is, And thus my yearning without end is ever magnified.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by Payne, John