Meaneth

Grand Cham's lingo meaneth as much as to say Empress in our tongue. ❋ Giovanni Boccaccio (1344)

Bewildered we are and passion-tossed, mad with the madness of a mobbed and mocked and murdered people; straining at the armposts of Thy throne, we raise our shackled hands and charge Thee, God, by the bones of our stolen fathers, by the tears of our dead mothers, by the very blood of Thy crucified Christ: What meaneth this? ❋ W.E.B. DU BOIS (2004)

She possessed herself of this city and seized it from its citizens by sorcery and her name is Queen Lab, which being interpreted, meaneth in Arabic ❋ Unknown (2006)

And indeed he spoke sooth in the words, ‘Whoso saith the world meaneth woman.’ ❋ Unknown (2006)

Then quoth Ibrahim the rhetorician, What meaneth the poet when he saith, ❋ Unknown (2006)

But these men do feign, to make things dear and of great price; but as the sooth meaneth, cannel groweth among the Trogodites in the little Ethiopia, and cometh by long space of the sea in ships to the haven of Gelenites. ❋ Unknown (2008)

So Kurajan sent out scouts, saying, “Go forth and bring me tidings of what meaneth this dust.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

What meaneth this heart - breaking, miserable ill-luck and hapless fortune? ❋ Unknown (2006)

Quoth he, “Tell me what meaneth this talk and what hath straitened thy breast and troubled thy temper.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

Quoth the Princess, “What meaneth thy speech, O nurse?” ❋ Unknown (2006)

He meaneth to sacrifice himself unjustly for my sake, when I it was who slew her. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Quoth Ali the Clever One, “What meaneth all this?” ❋ Unknown (2006)

“Tell me truly what this meaneth or I will lay violent hands on thee forthright.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

Nevertheless, he is a youth of no common spirit, but much like those (in my weak judgment) whom God raises up among a people when he meaneth that their deliverance shall be wrought out with strength of hand and valour of heart. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And Ali also said in his mind, “By Allah, this fellow meaneth to slaughter me; but deliverance is with the Almighty.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

‘Thy body is present but thy heart is absent’; and she meaneth, ‘Love is not thus: so do not reckon thyself among lovers.’ ❋ Unknown (2006)

And as to the power of separating and shutting up of furious rams, by which he meaneth Christian kings that refuse to submit themselves to the Roman pastor, our ❋ Unknown (2007)

Therefore our Saviour meaneth that those patriarches were immortal, not by a property consequent to the essence and nature of mankind, but by the will of God, that was pleased of His mere grace to bestow eternal life upon the faithful. ❋ Unknown (2007)

So also our Saviour, when he speaketh of the nature of man after the resurrection, meaneth the resurrection to life eternal, not to punishment. ❋ Unknown (2007)