They usefully managed to construe an efficient work ethic.
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Construe
/kənˈstɹuː/
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8 total sentences available.
She could construe irregular Latin verbs without a moment's hesitation.
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Prayers and calling-over seemed twice as short as usual, and before they could get construes of a tithe of the hard passages marked in the margin of their books, they were all seated round, and the Doctor was standing in the middle, talking in whispers to the master.
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Bru[tus]. […] But let not therefore my good Friends be greeu'd (Among which number Cassius be you one) Nor conſtrue any further my neglect, Then that poore Brutus with himſelfe at warre, Forgets the ſhews of Loue to other men.
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