All 7 Uses of
enigma
in
Jane Eyre
- The enigma then was explained: this affable and kind little widow was no great dame; but a dependant like myself.†
Chpt 11
- Your language is enigmatical, sir: but though I am bewildered, I am certainly not afraid.†
Chpt 14 *
- I hardly heard Mrs. Fairfax's account of the curtain conflagration during dinner, so much was I occupied in puzzling my brains over the enigmatical character of Grace Poole, and still more in pondering the problem of her position at Thornfield and questioning why she had not been given into custody that morning, or, at the very least, dismissed from her master's service.†
Chpt 16
- "I don't understand enigmas.†
Chpt 19
- But my mind had been running on Grace Poole — that living enigma, that mystery of mysteries, as I considered her.†
Chpt 19
- She surveyed my whole person: in her eyes I read that they had there found no charm powerful enough to solve the enigma.†
Chpt 24
- I waited now his return; eager to disburthen my mind, and to seek of him the solution of the enigma that perplexed me.†
Chpt 25
Definition:
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(enigma) something mysterious that seems unexplainable