All 17 Uses of
lattice
in
Wuthering Heights
- Merely the branch of a fir-tree that touched my lattice as the blast wailed by, and rattled its dry cones against the panes!†
Chpt 3 *
- He got on to the bed, and wrenched open the lattice, bursting, as he pulled at it, into an uncontrollable passion of tears.†
Chpt 3
- The household went to bed; and I, too, anxious to lie down, opened my lattice and put my head out to hearken, though it rained: determined to admit them in spite of the prohibition, should they return.†
Chpt 6
- The morning was fresh and cool; I threw back the lattice, and presently the room filled with sweet scents from the garden; but Catherine called peevishly to me, 'Ellen, shut the window.†
Chpt 9
- They sat together in a window whose lattice lay back against the wall, and displayed, beyond the garden trees, and the wild green park, the valley of Gimmerton, with a long line of mist winding nearly to its top (for very soon after you pass the chapel, as you may have noticed, the sough that runs from the marshes joins a beck which follows the bend of the glen).†
Chpt 10
- 'And that wind sounding in the firs by the lattice.†
Chpt 12
- Perceiving it vain to argue against her insanity, I was planning how I could reach something to wrap about her, without quitting my hold of herself (for I could not trust her alone by the gaping lattice), when, to my consternation, I heard the rattle of the door-handle, and Mr. Linton entered.†
Chpt 12
- I daresay she had been on the watch for me since morning: I saw her looking through the lattice as I came up the garden causeway, and I nodded to her; but she drew back, as if afraid of being observed.†
Chpt 14
- The only resource left me was to run to a lattice and warn his intended victim of the fate which awaited him.†
Chpt 17
- He surveyed the carved front and low-browed lattices, the straggling gooseberry-bushes and crooked firs, with solemn intentness, and then shook his head: his private feelings entirely disapproved of the exterior of his new abode.†
Chpt 20
- The lattice was open, and, as he stepped out, I heard Cathy inquiring of her unsociable attendant what was that inscription over the door?†
Chpt 21
- 'You should have opened a lattice and called out: but I could swear that chit is glad you didn't.†
Chpt 27
- We neither of us lay down: Catherine took her station by the lattice, and watched anxiously for morning; a deep sigh being the only answer I could obtain to my frequent entreaties that she would try to rest.†
Chpt 27
- She dared not try the doors lest the dogs should raise an alarm; she visited the empty chambers and examined their windows; and, luckily, lighting on her mother's, she got easily out of its lattice, and on to the ground, by means of the fir-tree close by.†
Chpt 28
- Both doors and lattices were open; and yet, as is usually the case in a coal-district, a fine red fire illumined the chimney: the comfort which the eye derives from it renders the extra heat endurable.†
Chpt 32
- He was leaning against the ledge of an open lattice, but not looking out: his face was turned to the interior gloom.†
Chpt 34
- The lattice, flapping to and fro, had grazed one hand that rested on the sill; no blood trickled from the broken skin, and when I put my fingers to it, I could doubt no more: he was dead and stark!†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(lattice) an object or pattern made from crisscrossing two sets of lines -- leaving diamond- or square-shaped spaces where they do not overlap
or:
an arrangement of points or particles or objects in a regular periodic pattern