Citations:explain


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * To explain myself — the Word of God saith of persons in a natural condition, "There is none righteous, there is none that doeth good." [Rom.


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The old man appeared enraptured and said some words which Agatha endeavoured to explain to Safie, and by which he appeared to wish to express that she bestowed on him the greatest delight by her music.
 * "I will soon explain to what these feelings tended, but allow me now to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but which all terminated in additional love and reverence for my protectors (for so I loved, in an innocent, half-painful self-deceit, to call them)."


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * And then let any man explain to me, if he can, how it happened that Scrooge, having his key in the lock of the door, saw in the knocker, without its undergoing any intermediate process of change — not a knocker, but Marley's face.