All 4 Uses of
haggard
in
Wuthering Heights
- The house-door was ajar, too; light entered from its unclosed windows; Hindley had come out, and stood on the kitchen hearth, haggard and drowsy.†
Chpt 9 *
- The haggardness of Mrs. Linton's appearance smote him speechless, and he could only glance from her to me in horrified astonishment.†
Chpt 12
- Then, the paleness of her face — its haggard aspect having vanished as she recovered flesh — and the peculiar expression arising from her mental state, though painfully suggestive of their causes, added to the touching interest which she awakened; and — invariably to me, I know, and to any person who saw her, I should think — refuted more tangible proofs of convalescence, and stamped her as one doomed to decay.†
Chpt 15
- 'No — better — better!' he panted, trembling, and retaining her hand as if he needed its support, while his large blue eyes wandered timidly over her; the hollowness round them transforming to haggard wildness the languid expression they once possessed.†
Chpt 26
Definition:
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(haggard) showing the wearing effects of overwork or suffering