"That is to say" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of things to say to you," he announced. "That is to say— well—I have, if things are as I hope." She got off the horse and they stood together by the side of the path. Sam never forgot the few minutes of silence that followed. The wide prospects of green sward, the golf player trudging wearily toward them through ...
— Windy McPherson's Son • Sherwood Anderson
... carried off the field the boggans forfeit half-a-crown, which is spent in beer, doubtless by the men of the particular hamlet who have carried off the hood." The great event of the day is the struggle for the last hood—made of leather—between the men of Haxey and the men of Westwoodside—"that is to say really between the customers of the public-houses there—each party trying to get it to his favourite 'house.' The publican at the successful ...
— Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan • Clement A. Miles
... neither sang, nor played, nor painted in water-colours; but she had once learnt to play the organ a little—a very little. So she professed herself willing to undertake the office of organ-player for once, that is to say, if she found she could do it pretty well, only she must go into church and try all the chants over. So Jimmy Griffiths was sent for from the village, and Vera, with the church key in her pocket, strolled idly into the churchyard, and, whilst awaiting him, meditated upon ...
— Vera Nevill - Poor Wisdom's Chance • Mrs. H. Lovett Cameron
... the warm bath should be nine to twelve hours at most. The best temperature is 30 degree to 35 degree [86 degree to 95 degree F] . . . That is to say, in the majority of cases, one may simply employ the water available in hothouses, which is just at the proper temperature. The process is thus at ...
— Three Acres and Liberty • Bolton Hall
... figurative language to clearly and forcibly impress this matter upon us; ordinarily it would have been sufficient for him to ask: "We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?" that is to say, Inasmuch as ye have been saved from sin through grace, it is not possible that grace should command you to continue in sin, for it is the business of grace to destroy sin. Now, in the figurative words above quoted, he wishes to vividly remind us what Christ has bestowed upon us. ...
— Epistle Sermons, Vol. III - Trinity Sunday to Advent • Martin Luther
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