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1  a little while to guess its meaning.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Nine In the Cathedral
2  And I've got other proof I mean a lot to him, too.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Three In the empty Courtroom - The Student - The ...
3  "What I mean is, that's for the worse," he repeated.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Six K.'s uncle - Leni
4  "What the judge said has no meaning for you," said the lawyer.
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5  Needless to say, the documents would mean an almost endless amount of work.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter
6  in a way that was probably meant to be full of meaning but could not actually be understood.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter One Arrest - Conversation with Mrs. Grubach - ...
7  , said the priest, and raised his hand from the balustrade to make a gesture whose meaning was unclear.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Nine In the Cathedral
8  It would simply mean he had not understood, or that he had understood but chose not to pay attention to it.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Nine In the Cathedral
9  Although that does not mean I've abandoned what I thought earlier as the two versions are, to some extent, not incompatible.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Nine In the Cathedral
10  I don't know whether the sign is meant to produce booing or applause, but I'll resist trying to guess what its meaning is too soon.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Two First Cross-examination
11  I don't mean by this that the defendant is never free, he's never free in the proper sense of the word with an apparent acquittal either.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter
12  I'm sure that is what will happen and that everything will turn out for the best in the end, but in the mean time things do not look at all good, and you can see that from the mood of the chief clerk himself.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Six K.'s uncle - Leni
13  What I mean, with all this, I just wanted to tell you how the examining judge really does write lots of reports, especially about you as questioning you was definitely one of the main things on the agenda that Sunday.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Three In the empty Courtroom - The Student - The ...
14  It doesn't mean that the case has been lost, not at all, or at least there is no decisive reason for supposing so, it's just that you don't know anything more about the case and won't be told anything of what's happening.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter
15  expected another summons to arrive, he could not believe that his rejection of any more hearings had been taken literally, and when the expected summons really had not come by Saturday evening he took it to mean that he was expected, without being told, to appear at the same place at the same time.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Three In the empty Courtroom - The Student - The ...
16  I don't know how you mean," said the businessman, "he's been my business lawyer - I buy and sell cereals - he's been my business lawyer since I took the business over, and that's about twenty years now, but perhaps you mean my own trial and he's been representing me in that since it started, and that's been more than five years.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Eight Block, the businessman - Dismissing the ...
17  Now, in contrast, if he was to conduct his defence himself, he would have to devote himself entirely to the court - for the time being, at least - success would mean, later on, his complete and conclusive liberation, but if he was to achieve this he would have to place himself, to start with, in far greater danger than he had been in so far.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter
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