All 11 Uses of
scrutiny
in
Jane Eyre
- Turning from Bessie (though her presence was far less obnoxious to me than that of Abbot, for instance, would have been), I scrutinised the face of the gentleman: I knew him; it was Mr. Lloyd, an apothecary, sometimes called in by Mrs. Reed when the servants were ailing: for herself and the children she employed a physician.†
Chpt 3
- "So much?" was the doubtful answer; and he prolonged his scrutiny for some minutes.†
Chpt 4 *
- He scrutinised the reverse of these living medals some five minutes, then pronounced sentence.†
Chpt 7
- It seems they had come in the carriage with their reverend relative, and had been conducting a rummaging scrutiny of the room upstairs, while he transacted business with the housekeeper, questioned the laundress, and lectured the superintendent.†
Chpt 7
- Mr. Brocklehurst and his family never came near Lowood now: household matters were not scrutinised into; the cross housekeeper was gone, driven away by the fear of infection; her successor, who had been matron at the Lowton Dispensary, unused to the ways of her new abode, provided with comparative liberality.†
Chpt 9
- The governess!" and again my raiment underwent scrutiny.†
Chpt 12
- He deliberately scrutinised each sketch and painting.†
Chpt 13
- Again she looked at me; and with the same scrutinising and conscious eye.†
Chpt 16
- It turns from me; it will not suffer further scrutiny; it seems to deny, by a mocking glance, the truth of the discoveries I have already made, — to disown the charge both of sensibility and chagrin: its pride and reserve only confirm me in my opinion.†
Chpt 19
- The conclusions drawn from this scrutiny he partially expressed in his succeeding observations.†
Chpt 30
- I, in my turn, scrutinised the paper; but saw nothing on it save a few dingy stains of paint where I had tried the tint in my pencil.†
Chpt 32
Definition:
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(scrutiny) careful examination of something