tell the meaning of
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Newspapers must tell the meaning of the news .
From Time Magazine Archive
No great spokesman arose in the U. S. to tell the meaning of this contest.
From Time Magazine Archive
Magicians, astrologers, Chaldæans, and soothsayers, all the wise men of Babylon came to his palace to hear his dream, and to try to tell the meaning of it.
From Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various
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.
I cannot tell the meaning of these figures, but between them are suspended censers attached to crosses; a most beautiful symbolic expression of Christ’s mediatorial function.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) by Ruskin, John
