All 5 Uses of
convey
in
Pride and Prejudice
- My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them—by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.
Chpt 10 (definition 1)convey = communicate or express
- ...the coach conveyed him and his five cousins at a suitable hour to Meryton; and the girls had the pleasure of hearing, as they entered the drawing-room, that Mr. Wickham had accepted their uncle's invitation, and was then in the house.
Chpt 16 (definition 2) *conveyed = transported
- …he was so much struck with the size and furniture of the apartment, that he declared he might almost have supposed himself in the small summer breakfast parlour at Rosings; a comparison that did not at first convey much gratification; but when Mrs. Phillips understood from him what Rosings was, and who was its proprietor—when she had listened to the description of…
Chpt 16 (definition 1)convey = communicate or express
- The very first sentence conveyed the assurance of their being all settled in London for the winter, and concluded with her brother's regret at not having had time to pay his respects to his friends in Hertfordshire before he left the country.
Chpt 24 (definition 1)conveyed = communicated or expressed
- Elizabeth noticed every sentence conveying the idea of uneasiness, with an attention which it had hardly received on the first perusal.
Chpt 34 (definition 1) *conveying = communicating or expressing
Definitions:
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(1) (convey as in: convey her thoughts) communicate or express
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(2) (convey as in: convey her safely to) transporteditor's notes: Today, this sense of convey is seldom seen outside of historic literature.