All 18 Uses of
reflect
in
Wuthering Heights
- One end, indeed, reflected splendidly both light and heat from ranks of immense pewter dishes, interspersed with silver jugs and tankards, towering row after row, on a vast oak dresser, to the very roof.†
Chpt 1
- You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.'†
Chpt 7 *
- Catherine reflected an instant, with knitted brows — she found it needful to smooth the way for an intrusion.†
Chpt 8
- 'Yes, Heathcliff,' he replied, glancing from me up to the windows, which reflected a score of glittering moons, but showed no lights from within.†
Chpt 10
- Hindley is too reckless to select his acquaintance prudently: he doesn't trouble himself to reflect on the causes he might have for mistrusting one whom he has basely injured.†
Chpt 10
- Whether she would have got over this fancy if left to herself, or persevered in nursing it perpetually, I cannot say: she had little time to reflect.†
Chpt 10
- 'This is Edgar's legal nephew,' I reflected — 'mine in a manner; I must shake hands, and — yes — I must kiss him.†
Chpt 13
- I reflected as the good woman descended to receive the doctor: and not exactly of the kind which I should have chosen to amuse me.†
Chpt 14
- Do you reflect that all those words will be branded in my memory, and eating deeper eternally after you have left me?†
Chpt 15
- 'And what if she should have slipped in clambering among them,' I reflected, 'and been killed, or broken some of her bones?'†
Chpt 18
- It gave Joseph satisfaction, apparently, to watch him go the worst lengths: he allowed that the lad was ruined: that his soul was abandoned to perdition; but then he reflected that Heathcliff must answer for it.†
Chpt 18
- Come, I reflected, his father's selfishness may contribute to his comfort.†
Chpt 20
- 'I've a pleasure in him,' he continued, reflecting aloud.†
Chpt 21
- The moon shone bright; a sprinkling of snow covered the ground, and I reflected that she might, possibly, have taken it into her head to walk about the garden, for refreshment.†
Chpt 24
- I reflected, while riding down the road.†
Chpt 31 *
- Well, I reflected, there was never a pleasanter, or more harmless sight; and it will be a burning shame to scold them.†
Chpt 33
- I reflected to myself, 'we shall have a fit of illness.†
Chpt 34
- And then I set myself to reflect how I had tended him in infancy, and watched him grow to youth, and followed him almost through his whole course; and what absurd nonsense it was to yield to that sense of horror.†
Chpt 34
Definitions:
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(reflect as in: reflect in the mirror) show an image back (on a mirror or other shiny surface)
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(reflect as in: reflect the light/heat/sound) bounce back (rather than absorbing)