He sang the praises of the Queen also, but as he based his joy at her accession on an assurance that she would follow in William's footsteps, the compliment might be Construed as an exhortation.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
It is hard to say whose or what it became, if the words are to be Construed technically; practically, however, with all ingenuous readers, "the theory" remained as much Mr. Darwin's theory as though the words "my theory" had been retained, and Mr. Darwin cannot be supposed so simple-minded as not to have known this would be the case.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
When a document is produced in evidence, the meaning of the words used in it are very carefully Construed, not only in reference to the particular clause in which they occur, but also with reference to the intention of the document as a whole, and to the circumstances under which they were written.
"The Law and the Word"
Thomas Troward