All 13 Uses of
infernal
in
Wuthering Heights
- On coming up from dinner, however, (N.B. — I dine between twelve and one o'clock; the housekeeper, a matronly lady, taken as a fixture along with the house, could not, or would not, comprehend my request that I might be served at five) — on mounting the stairs with this lazy intention, and stepping into the room, I saw a servant-girl on her knees surrounded by brushes and coal-scuttles, and raising an infernal dust as she extinguished the flames with heaps of cinders.†
Chpt 2
- I could not half tell what an infernal house we had.†
Chpt 8
- Besides, it's infernal affectation — devilish conceit it is, to cherish our ears — we're asses enough without them.†
Chpt 9
- I want you to be aware that I KNOW you have treated me infernally — infernally!†
Chpt 11 *
- I want you to be aware that I KNOW you have treated me infernally — infernally!†
Chpt 11
- 'I've treated you infernally — and you'll take your revenge!†
Chpt 11
- How have I treated you infernally?'†
Chpt 11
- Is it not sufficient for your infernal selfishness, that while you are at peace I shall writhe in the torments of hell?'†
Chpt 15
- And far rather would I be condemned to a perpetual dwelling in the infernal regions than, even for one night, abide beneath the roof of Wuthering Heights again.'†
Chpt 17
- Hareton, you infernal calf, begone to your work.†
Chpt 20
- Infernal! keeping my nerves at such a stretch that, if they had not resembled catgut, they would long ago have relaxed to the feebleness of Linton's.†
Chpt 29
- I supposed I should be condemned in Hareton Earnshaw's heart, if not by his mouth, to the lowest pit in the infernal regions if I showed my unfortunate person in his neighbourhood then; and feeling very mean and malignant, I skulked round to seek refuge in the kitchen.†
Chpt 32
- 'What fiend possesses you to stare back at me, continually, with those infernal eyes?†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(infernal) very bad; or very annoying; or characteristic of hell or the underworld