convey

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Please convey my gratitude for her hospitality.

And it was a peculiar situation that Wu was trying to convey.  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

It was not a move designed to elicit arousal, but it was certainly a designed move, because Augustus Waters was no improviser. So what had he been trying to convey?  (source) John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012

Far more difficult was the idea that another dog might convey a command.  (source) David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, 2008

Even from a distance, their eyes conveyed the strength of their souls.  (source) Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist, 1988

I felt Father Michael's hand on mine, conveying what there were not words to say.†  (source) Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart, 2008

But while weaving through traffic his side mirror scraped the door of a shiny black luxury SUV, the conveyance of some industrialist or bigwig, costing more than a house, and Saeed steeled himself for a shouting, perhaps even a beating, but the guard who stepped out of the front passenger-side door of the SUV, assault rifle pointed skyward, merely had time to look at Saeed, a smooth, ferocious glance, before being summoned back in, and the SUV sped off, its owner clearly not wishing, on this night, to tarry.†  (source) Moshin Hamid, Exit West, 2017

He conveys his message through jokes or by spinning a lesson out of a popular movie or song.  (source) Sonia Nazario, Enrique's Journey, 2006

Encourag'd, however, by this, I wrote and convey'd in the same way to the press several more papers which were equally approv'd; and I kept my secret till my small fund of sense for such performances was pretty well exhausted and then I discovered it, when I began to be considered a little more by my brother's acquaintance, and in a manner that did not quite please him, as he thought, probably with reason, that it tended to make me too vain.†  (source) Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 1791

Mihailovich had the bureau chief call again to convey his wishes for Watanabe's recovery.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

Dark and emotive, they suggested a trace of exotic blood in his heritage, Greek, maybe, or Chippewa, and conveyed a vulnerability that made Westerberg want to take the kid under his wing.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

The dress came just up to her darkly suntanned shoulders, the delicate material clinging to her torso but not so tightly as to be indecent, the handsome drape conveying only the suggestion of the young woman beneath.†  (source) Chang-rae Lee, A Gesture Life, 1999

To call this conveyance a "passenger dirigible" is an exercise in creative semantics.†  (source) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989

This document conveys title to the new owner.

Suppose a New York law says that a married woman cannot convey her property.  (source) James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, & John Jay, The Federalist Papers -- Modern English Edition 2, 2008

I shall set up chambers in the City, and work at actuarial calculations and conveyancing.  (source) George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession, 1893

I accepted the explanation in silence; but she had told me that my child belonged to her daughter, and I suspected that her real motive was a fear of my conveying her property away from her.  (source) Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 1861

Agreements to convey lands claimed under the grants of different States are another example of the need for an equitable jurisdiction in the federal courts.  (source) James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, & John Jay, The Federalist Papers -- Modern English Edition 2, 2008

Am I to go to him and make a deed of conveyance?  (source) Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, 1877

If the law allows an opulent citizen but a single vote in the choice of his representative, the respect and consequence which he derives from his fortunate situation very frequently guide the votes of others to the objects of his choice; and through this imperceptible channel the rights of property are conveyed into the public representation.  (source) James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, & John Jay, The Federalist Papers, 1788

He hired a small office down in the town and hung out a tin sign with these words on it: DAVID WILSON ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR-AT-LAW SURVEYING, CONVEYANCING, ETC.  (source) Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894

The Conduits, and Wayes by which it is conveyed to the Publique use, are of two sorts; One, that Conveyeth it to the Publique Coffers; The other, that Issueth the same out againe for publique payments.†  (source) Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651

Could we infer from this regulation that a married woman could not get the approval of her relatives when conveying property of inferior value?  (source) James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, & John Jay, The Federalist Papers -- Modern English Edition 2, 2008

At an early date they shortened the English law-phrase, /to convey by deed/, to the simple verb, /to deed/.  (source) Henry L. Mencken, The American Language, 1919

The little village and the rather fine town house which formed part of her dowry he did his utmost for a long time to transfer to his name, by means of some deed of conveyance.  (source) Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, 1880

Let us suppose that by the laws of this State a married woman was incapable of conveying her estate, and that the legislature, considering this as an evil, should enact that she might dispose of her property by deed executed in the presence of a magistrate.  (source) James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, & John Jay, The Federalist Papers, 1788

We hired a carriage to convey us to the city.

They made conveyance of goods unwieldy.  (source) Lois Lowry, The Giver, 1993

It's a desert world with practically no atmosphere to convey sound.  (source) Andy Weir, The Martian, 2011

The guards lift me up above the fray, where I continue to thrash as I'm conveyed over the crush of people.  (source) Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, 2010

The nearest station is Oakbridge, you will be met there and motored to Sticklehaven where a motor launch will convey you to Indian Island.  (source) Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None, 1939

We were standing in the driveway of the manse waiting for the horse and cart, which Made still regarded as the only dependable conveyance when there was a train to be caught.  (source) Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place, 1971

Her awareness of life's perils convinced her that while I would be safe on the public conveyances, she "wasn't about to trust a taxi driver with her baby."  (source) Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969

On September 20th two covered carts went off laden to Buckland, conveying the furniture and goods that Frodo had not sold to his new home, by way of the Brandywine Bridge.  (source) J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954

The two first were clerks to an eminent scrivener or conveyancer in the town, Charles Brogden; the other was clerk to a merchant.†  (source) Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 1791

"They have only differed on some point of science," he thought; and being a man of no scientific passions (except in the matter of conveyancing), he even added: "It is nothing worse than that!"  (source) Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1886

Our conveyancers, in describing real property, always speak of "all that /lot/ or /parcel/ of land."†  (source) Henry L. Mencken, The American Language, 1919

If you're being attacked with heat, you have to know whether it is being conveyed to you through air, fire, light, or some other medium.  (source) Christopher Paolini, Eragon, 2003

Dinner over, the coach which was to convey the passengers and their luggage to the station drew up to the door.  (source) Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days, 1873