Downing, I cannot understand the part played by Smith in this affair.

Now Daniel began to understand the part Papa Ravinet expected him to play.

I understand the part about our three brothers.

You have to read the Frenchman, Houssaye, to get a central view and to understand the part they played.

She wanted to understand the part that was real; the center line in this erratic and unpredictable skid of events.

Sadako was given to understand the part which she was to play in alienating her cousin's affections from the foreigner.

We are not yet equipped to understand the part played by levity in bringing about the processes of life; we shall come to this later.

She understood the part about his wife's having died recently.

I never understood the part about the flower until now.

And she understood the part about the wife's having left behind a lot of clothing.

He was not completely convinced that he had understood the part about airline sick bags.

We understand the parts, but not the rules.

She asked his advice, inquired if he thought her interpretation correct, if he understood the part in that way.

For the first time in her life, Cait understood the part of her bloodline that had always been mysterious and undefined.

It was all about polarities and chronons and critical cycles, but I understood the part about Time City being nearly worn out.

Mr. Phelan, in his "History of Tennessee," deserves especial praise for having so clearly understood the part played by the Scotch-Irish.