I'll be moreexplanatory. This madcap quest of mine, was it not understood between us from the beginning to be a fantastic whim, a poetical wild-goose chase, conceived entirely as an excuse for being some time in each other's company?

Fourteen years ago I scraped together the wretched means of existence in this very town by reading the newspaper (withexplanatory comments) to the company at a public-house.

Captain Peleg's bruited reason for this thing appeared by no means adequate; though, indeed, as touching all Ahab's deeper part, every revelation partook more of significant darkness than ofexplanatory light.

He said something to his warriorsexplanatory of this singular posture of affairs, and in vindication, perhaps, of the pacific temper of his son-in-law.

"Can't do that," said Montgomery, with anexplanatory nod over his shoulder.

There was a date at one end of the line and at the other a sum of money, as in common account-books, but instead ofexplanatory writing, only a varying number of crosses between the two.

Perhaps my face said so, for her first remark wasexplanatory.

Dunfer, his fragmentary revelation, and the unsatisfyingexplanatory note by the headstone, came back with singular distinctness.

In his deportment he was solemn, if not sullen; and when he spoke, which was seldom, he always delivered himself in a slow voice; and, though his sentences were short, they were still interrupted with many hums and ha's, ay ays, and other expletives: so that, though he accompanied his words with certainexplanatory gestures, such as shaking or nodding the head, or pointing with his fore-finger, he generally left his hearers to understand more than he expressed; nay, he commonly gave them a hint that he knew much more than he thought proper to disclose.

Tulliver remarked, in anexplanatory manner, to his friends on his right and left, that he had spent a deal of money on his son's education.

To return, for anexplanatory moment, to that guide, and then I shall be done with him.

In one moment her imagination placed before her a letter from Willoughby, full of tenderness and contrition,explanatory of all that had passed, satisfactory, convincing; and instantly followed by Willoughby himself, rushing eagerly into the room to inforce, at her feet, by the eloquence of his eyes, the assurances of his letter.