All 4 Uses of
thwart
in
Wuthering Heights
- It expressed, plainer than words could do, the intensest anguish at having made himself the instrument of thwarting his own revenge.†
Chpt 9 *
- This is not much connected with Miss Isabella's affair: except that it urged me to resolve further on mounting vigilant guard, and doing my utmost to cheek the spread of such bad influence at the Grange: even though I should wake a domestic storm, by thwarting Mrs. Linton's pleasure.†
Chpt 11
- If once I find it open he's done for; I do it invariably, even though the minute before I have been recalling a hundred reasons that should make me refrain: it is some devil that urges me to thwart my own schemes by killing him.†
Chpt 13
- 'It will be odd if I thwart myself,' he muttered, unconscious that I was behind him.†
Chpt 31
Definition:
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(thwart) to prevent something