"Make sense" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the minstrel upon such subjects, as he had been instructed by Sir John de Walton to comply with his humour. Accordingly the minstrel began to recite verses, which, in our time, the ablest interpreter could not make sense ...
— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott
... Her words did not appear to make sense. They seemed the mere aimless vapouring of an aunt who has been sitting out in the sun ...
— Right Ho, Jeeves • P. G. Wodehouse
... be going)—Ver. 742. Colman here remarks to the following effect: "There is some difficulty in this and the next speech in the original, and the Commentators have been puzzled to make sense of them. It seems to me that the Poet's intention is no more than this: Bacchis expresses some reluctance to act under the direction of Syrus, but is at length prevailed on, finding that he ...
— The Comedies of Terence - Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes • Publius Terentius Afer, (AKA) Terence
... the cabin wall, tried to make sense out of a confused jumble of thoughts and impressions and memories that flooded in one wave to his mind. His few hours of blindness had seemingly sharpened his other senses: and there was a quality of the half-breed's voice that was distinctly familiar. He had assumed at once that the two breeds ...
— The Snowshoe Trail • Edison Marshall
... narratives," said Keogh. "I can use language for purposes of speech; but when I attempt a discourse the words come out as they will, and they may make sense when they strike the atmosphere, or they ...
— Cabbages and Kings • O. Henry
... suspiciously melodramatic story I caught sight of a mysterious document fastened by nails to the house opposite the inn. It was covered with coloured signs which, whatever they were, certainly did not form letters or make sense in any way. I examined the document closely. One sign looked like an aeroplane, another like a house, a third like the rough drawing of a wood. I took it to a certain officer, who agreed with me ...
— Adventures of a Despatch Rider • W. H. L. Watson
... That was apparent; nor could he make sense out of any combination of letters. He knew that there were certain codes whereby the two progressions, arithmetical and geometric were employed in their composition, but this seemingly answered to none of them. He went over the list ...
— The Loyalist - A Story of the American Revolution • James Francis Barrett
... endeavor to trace its history; and, after finally putting all of its manuscript readings upon record, and confessing frankly that he had been in error with regard to some of them, and that there are many of them which are "innovations,—changes which had crept in from time to time, [upon the stage,] to make sense out of difficult passages, but which do not represent the authentic text of Shakespeare," he gives the volume away to the Duke of Devonshire, the owner of one of the most celebrated dramatic libraries in ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various
... It didn't make sense, but then it never had. You couldn't argue with prejudice. He was "different." He didn't act like they did. He didn't believe the same things. He was the outsider, therefore suspect. The alien ...
— The Planet with No Nightmare • Jim Harmon
... persons abused are—the King, the Queen, his late Majesty, both Houses of Parliament, the Privy Council, the Bench of Bishops, the Established Church, the present Ministry, &c. To make sense of some passages, they must be ...
— Poetical Works of Pope, Vol. II • Alexander Pope
... protested Morgan. "The facts fit together! I'm no hand at working out theories; I deal in facts. But the facts do make sense!" ...
— Talents, Incorporated • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... dinner, they brought their colloquy to a close. Don Diego asked his son what he had been able to make out as to the wits of their guest. To which he replied, "All the doctors and clever scribes in the world will not make sense of the scrawl of his madness; he is a madman full of ...
— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
... went on. "We've all been wondering and it doesn't make sense. Have you any idea at all of what the Board actually ...
— Masters of Space • Edward Elmer Smith
... trying to argue. But it simply doesn't make sense. If I learned about this operation you're speaking of from you, what reason could I have to feed you Truth in the first place? There'd be almost a fifty-fifty chance that you'd spot it immediately. Why should I take such a ...
— Lion Loose • James H. Schmitz
... Margot said in the boat. "I can read minds, so I'd know best if we were being watched. To get a clear reading I have to aim my thoughts specifically, but I can pick up free-floating thoughts as a kind of emotional tone rather than words. Does that make sense?" ...
— Equation of Doom • Gerald Vance |
