"mean" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It is also an infallible means of discovering that which he wishes to hide.
- A good means for effecting that- an almost infallible means, indeed- is to try to prove his victim to be in the wrong.
- 'However,' he added, 'I know an infallible means of procuring your happiness.'
- In 1793 Bertuch himself defined this art business in a magazine as being "an infallible means of encouraging German industry and spreading food and prosperity among us".
- He and Lewis were supposed to have an infallible means of secret communication - the only two Shipmen so gifted.
- He had early on discovered that the infallible means of making anything irresistibly attractive was to deny it to Kitty Godolphin.
- Also, when I have a mind to visit the depths of the ocean five or six mlles below the surface, I make use of slower but not less infallible means.
- The university of Coimbra decides that this "great ceremony was an infallible means of preventing the earth from quaking."
- A sure and infallible means, that will as certainly dispatch him into eternity as the hunter's tiny bullet slays the proudest stag.
- They had, as we had found with Ruki, an apparently infallible means of sensing anything in their food or drink which could be injurious.
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