All 8 Uses of
brief
in
Wuthering Heights
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- 'It is brief advice, but as sound as I can give.'†
Chpt 2
- 'She's her brother's heir, is she not?' he asked, after a brief silence.†
Chpt 10
- 'Only that brief time?'†
Chpt 12 *
- He looked astonished at the expression my face assumed during a brief second: it was not horror, it was covetousness.†
Chpt 13
- I mounted Minny, and urged her to a trot; and so my brief guardianship ended.†
Chpt 20
- She had not the heart to mention her ride, when Thursday came round; I mentioned it for her, and obtained permission to order her out of doors: for the library, where her father stopped a short time daily — the brief period he could bear to sit up — and his chamber, had become her whole world.†
Chpt 27
- Catherine, contented at first, in a brief space grew irritable and restless.†
Chpt 32
- I was terrified at the devastation which had been accomplished in a brief half-hour; the black-currant trees were the apple of Joseph's eye, and she had just fixed her choice of a flower-bed in the midst of them.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) Brief is most commonly encountered as an adjective meaning "of short duration." Other meanings derive from the idea of short--as when making a long story short by summarizing it, or when wearing briefs (underwear).