All 3 Uses of
subtle
in
Jane Eyre
- I walked a while on the pavement; but a subtle, well-known scent — that of a cigar — stole from some window; I saw the library casement open a handbreadth; I knew I might be watched thence; so I went apart into the orchard.†
Chpt 23
- My nerves vibrated to those low-spoken words as they had never vibrated to thunder — my blood felt their subtle violence as it had never felt frost or fire; but I was collected, and in no danger of swooning.†
Chpt 26
- My hopes were all dead — struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt.†
Chpt 26 *
Definition:
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(subtle as in: a subtle shade of blue) understated so as not to draw excess attention