Sentence Examples:
Ah, here is the gist of it!
Brunt, is the gist of the will.
The very gist of romanticism was passion.
Gist, and shared rations and supplies in common.
You have misunderstood the gist of the play, then!
The gist of his rambling statement was as follows.
The foregoing gives the gist of the first trials.
This squint gives them the gist of their world.
The whole gist of the matter lies in the postscript.
The words in italics give the gist of the matter.
The gist of the diatribe was the delay and expense.
That had been the hateful gist culled from the detail.
In this lies the gist of all deliberate discouragement of female learning.
I may advantageously summarize the essential gist of the entire matter.
Ah, now I begin to get at the gist of your argument.
He expressed it more elegantly, but that was the gist of it.
Without much need of sagacity, he divined the gist of the truth.
The gist of the dispute was emerging from a cloud of verbiage.
The gist of it was a yearning for a sort of sublime socialism.
The two words, courteously spoken, gave the gist of all his interviews.
"That seems to be the gist of it," I said, rereading the letter.
If I recollect myself aright, such is very much the gist of them.
Bernard Shaw, the gist of the matter can be compressed in fewer words.
Perhaps you can guess its purport, and the gist of what he said.
I leave the reader to discern the gist of their talk from its technicalities.
The gist of its purport is: "I am doing wrong in acting like this."
That was the gist of their talks with me from the warders up.
Not in those flowery words, of course, but give him the gist of it.
Said I, carefully careless, but I wanted more than ever to know that missive's gist.
Gist to the Indian, suspicious that he was intentionally taking them out of their way.
This was the gist of the despatch; I do not pretend to give its wording.
I need hardly say that his Highness at once saw the gist of the matter.
And now, therefore, note this well, the gist of all these long prefatory talks.
And now, therefore, note this well, the gist of all these long prefatory talks.
At this time Gist and I were near together, and the Indian about twenty paces away.
Hayes, who began to perceive the gist of the argument, and to grow dreadfully frightened.
In a most forcible and masterly way, and the gist of his reply is this.
This is the gist of these scornful answers which disclose the psychology of commercial undertakings.
The gist of the first essential, then, is to treat syphilis early rather than late.
I would give him the gist of what I knew of chemistry, and botany, and psychology.
Oral precepts thus condense the gist of recurrent experience for the benefit of each new generation.
The gist of the commissions' reports was that imagination, not magnetism, accounted for the results.
We shall now give you, briefly, the gist of the answer of science to the aforesaid objections.
As the gist of what he was trying to say was borne in upon her, Louise winced.
Gist, the intrepid pioneer, whom he engaged to accompany and pilot him in the present expedition.
The gist of the letter, so far as Ralph was concerned, was contained in the postscript.
Such was the gist of that memorable conversation, which I have condensed as much as I could.
The deputation clearly gathered the gist of it, for with every sentence they became manifestly more incensed.
Gist must sulkily put up his knife, and the would-be assassin was suffered to depart in peace.
The gist of the petition is enclosed herewith, in case that the city shall forget to send it.
The gist of our argument was afterwards published in a conversation, entitled "Can we reach the other planets?"
The gist of his argument was to show that audacity in Reform was the very backbone of Conservatism.
Besides, the French translation of the gist of the address has been printed and is in their hands.
The gist of it is that all malting done on the planet must be carried on under government supervision.
At this a great clacking began, so that Master Middle only came to the gist of it in an hour.
Such was the gist of the document under which the enormities mentioned in the preceding chapters were committed.
And Sidney, though anxiously desiring to know the gist of the conversation, in this instance was not gratified.
I have put the foregoing very broadly, but enough is given to show the reader the gist of the argument.
Such, in fact, is the gist of the chronicles, and all later documents and events serve to confirm it.
He ran his eyes down the column quickly to gather its gist, and then perused it with concentrated attention.
The gist of the matter is this: Adam and Eve were commanded to abstain from a certain tree growing in Eden.
The gist of all the arguments in favor of the revolution is: better imperialism than an oligarchy of corrupt nobles.
Who was it who first said that the gist of a woman's letter would always be found in the postscript?
The gist of the work (or at least of three-fourths of it) is to show how the impossible might occur.
I shall give the gist of the narrative as concisely as a proper attention to its more important phases will allow.
The last sentence is, in my view, the gist of the matter; the preceding sentences greatly overstate the case.
The whole gist of his writings might be compressed into two or three of the maxims that he affects to despise.
Though seizing a disconnected word or two, fear kept him from getting the gist of it all, as he generally did.
The gist of it was that wherever the Walkers might be they would soon set the place by the ears.
Fifteen years later she gets an inward response as to the general gist and unifying purport of the sixteen revelations.
An adventure that had started as a mere lark or whim had now become for me the very gist of life itself.
Trying to shunt the real gist of the social question off on to lines that promise to be smooth for the bourgeois sort.
That seems to have been the gist of his sentiments, and the Vicar applauded it, as any reasonable man must have done.
There is a reading which also alters the words within the parenthesis, but this hardly affects the gist of the passage.
Nevertheless, they touched the point which was the real gist of the contention, and dealt with it ably from the first.
Her thoughts at this crisis were undeniably woolly; but the gist of them was, that life and books had nothing in common.
The gist of them was that thus far we had remarkably little to show for what Raffles would call "our second innings."
I should like to skim it over at once, to get the gist of the argument, and then read it leisurely, to enjoy the style.
Gist, who was much vexed, said if we did not shoot him, which was the better way, we must contrive to fool him.
As his mind grasped the gist of the thing, a flush crept over his face and he felt the beat of his heart quicken.
This new delusion is precisely the same in nature as the old ones; its gist lies in secretly leading astray the activity of our reason and conscience, and of those who have lived before us, by something external.
The price paid is the gist of the find in the popular eye, though there is no denying that, in the case of genuine literature, this is about the most unsatisfactory view that can be taken of the matter.
Jack sat there working at his maps for some time after they had finished eating; so, too, he made numerous notes, to be conned over and over again, until he could repeat the gist of them all as occasion arose.
April communicated the gist of this worldly wisdom to Diana, half hoping that it might give the latter courage to disclose herself and perhaps clear them both of any worse indictment than upon the count of foolishness.
In his writings, the true gist of his meaning seems to be only partially revealed; and it is clear that he himself was never really aware of the fundamental notions that lay at the back of his thought.
It was against this tendency that Doctor Montessori made her protest, the gist of which is that the adult home is not adapted for giving that scope which is necessary for the proper bringing up of children.
He then refers to the estimates already submitted, and coming to the gist of his speech, and the part of it that is awaited with curiosity, he explains how he proposes to raise the revenue required to meet the expenditures.
Gist, whom you well remember, came into camp, from his home on the Monongahela, with the tidings, that a party of French had been at his house on the day before, whom, from their appearance, he believed to be spies.
He wrote a great deal more from time to time on this subject; but that is the gist of his conclusions, and whether justified by time, or otherwise, it expresses today the deduction of a very large number of people.
The gist of the theory is that these curious objects are probably the result of close approaches to each other of two independent suns, reminding us of what was said on this subject when we were dealing with temporary stars.
Nobody can for a moment suppose that "sporting" amusements are the sports of the people; the whole gist of the best part of the description is to show that they are the amusements of a peculiar and limited class.
Again, consider a somewhat similar reference to Marcus Aurelius, of which the gist is that the author of the Meditations was, actually in consequence of his own character, the father of one of the worst rulers the world has known.
Notice how, in the following paragraph, the writer has given the gist of the machines so that, if he wishes to expand and make a full treatment, he will still have a nucleus which will considerably facilitate the reader's understanding.
Definite, measurable, physical effects may be produced by music, and the gist of the matter is that one should become familiar enough with music to understand and enjoy it, but never familiar enough to induce the loss of its effect.
If I regard human society and human life too much as the biologist regards his rabbit, which appears to be the gist of your criticism, I can at least cheerfully take my own turn on the operating table as occasion requires.
In the devout contemplation of these mysteries, and in the application of the same to our own religious moral life, lie the gist of the prayers of the Rosary and the chief fruits which we should draw from this saving devotion.
Thoroughly determined to tell the most interesting part, the gist, of his story in the first paragraph, the reporter must remember that there are certain other things about the incident that the reader wants to know just as quickly.
I do not know the habits of the criminal classes, but as you say, and I fear I must convey the gist of your speech to the officers of the law, money has been missed from your department for a considerable time.
The gist of it may be expressed in a sentence which, standing by itself, is not intelligible; other sentences locally separate from the principal one may contain the exceptions and the modifications and the interpretations to which that is subject.
It is a useful accomplishment not only in the reading of fiction, but in the business of life, to the man of affairs who must get the gist of a mass of written matter, and to the student of any special subject.