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Jane Eyre

Mrs. Reed was rather a stout woman; but, on hearing this strange and audacious declaration, she ran nimbly up the stair, swept me like a whirlwind into the nursery, and crushing me down on the edge of my crib, dared me in an emphatic voice to rise from that place, or utter one syllable during the remainder of the day.†
Chpt 4 (definition 2)

In uttering these words I looked up: he seemed to me a tall gentleman; but then I was very little; his features were large, and they and all the lines of his frame were equally harsh and prim.†
Chpt 4 (definition 1)

Now, uttered before a stranger, the accusation cut me to the heart; I dimly perceived that she was already obliterating hope from the new phase of existence which she destined me to enter; I felt, though I could not have expressed the feeling, that she was sowing aversion and unkindness along my future path; I saw myself transformed under Mr. Brocklehurst's eye into an artful, noxious child, and what could I do to remedy the injury?†
Chpt 4 (definition 1)

This phrase, uttered in my hearing yesterday, would have only conveyed the notion that she was about to be removed to Northumberland, to her own home.†
Chpt 9 (definition 1)

I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing.†
Chpt 10 (definition 1)

I was a mile from Thornfield, in a lane noted for wild roses in summer, for nuts and blackberries in autumn, and even now possessing a few coral treasures in hips and haws, but whose best winter delight lay in its utter solitude and leafless repose.†
Chpt 12 (definition 2)

This was a demoniac laugh — low, suppressed, and deep — uttered, as it seemed, at the very keyhole of my chamber door.†
Chpt 15 (definition 1)

And here she closed her harangue: a long one for her, and uttered with the demureness of a Quakeress.†
Chpt 16 (definition 1)

Indeed, whatever being uttered that fearful shriek could not soon repeat it: not the widest-winged condor on the Andes could, twice in succession, send out such a yell from the cloud shrouding his eyrie.†
Chpt 20 (definition 1)

The sounds I had heard after the scream, and the words that had been uttered, had probably been heard only by me; for they had proceeded from the room above mine: but they assured me that it was not a servant's dream which had thus struck horror through the house; and that the explanation Mr. Rochester had given was merely an invention framed to pacify his guests.†
Chpt 20 (definition 1)

What creature was it, that, masked in an ordinary woman's face and shape, uttered the voice, now of a mocking demon, and anon of a carrion-seeking bird of prey?†
Chpt 20 (definition 1)

The results of what you have done become in time to you utterly insupportable; you take measures to obtain relief: unusual measures, but neither unlawful nor culpable.†
Chpt 20 (definition 2) *

Georgiana added to her "How d'ye do?" several commonplaces about my journey, the weather, and so on, uttered in rather a drawling tone: and accompanied by sundry side-glances that measured me from head to foot — now traversing the folds of my drab merino pelisse, and now lingering on the plain trimming of my cottage bonnet.†
Chpt 21 (definition 1)

Eliza would sit half the day sewing, reading, or writing, and scarcely utter a word either to me or her sister.†
Chpt 21 (definition 2)

When tea was over and Mrs. Fairfax had taken her knitting, and I had assumed a low seat near her, and Adele, kneeling on the carpet, had nestled close up to me, and a sense of mutual affection seemed to surround us with a ring of golden peace, I uttered a silent prayer that we might not be parted far or soon; but when, as we thus sat, Mr. Rochester entered, unannounced, and looking at us, seemed to take pleasure in the spectacle of a group so amicable — when he said he supposed the old…†
Chpt 22 (definition 1)

Utter it, Jane: but I wish that instead of a mere inquiry into, perhaps, a secret, it was a wish for half my estate.†
Chpt 24 (definition 2)

"With what an extraordinary smile you uttered that word — 'very well,' Jane!†
Chpt 25 (definition 1)

I thought, sir, that you were on the road a long way before me; and I strained every nerve to overtake you, and made effort on effort to utter your name and entreat you to stop — but my movements were fettered, and my voice still died away inarticulate; while you, I felt, withdrew farther and farther every moment.†
Chpt 25 (definition 2)

Profound silence fell when he had uttered that word, with deep but low intonation.†
Chpt 26 (definition 1)

He continued, uttering each word distinctly, calmly, steadily, but not loudly — "It simply consists in the existence of a previous marriage.†
Chpt 26 (definition 1)

…the transaction in the church had not been noisy; there was no explosion of passion, no loud altercation, no dispute, no defiance or challenge, no tears, no sobs: a few words had been spoken, a calmly pronounced objection to the marriage made; some stern, short questions put by Mr. Rochester; answers, explanations given, evidence adduced; an open admission of the truth had been uttered by my master; then the living proof had been seen; the intruders were gone, and all was over.†
Chpt 26 (definition 1)

One idea only still throbbed life-like within me — a remembrance of God: it begot an unuttered prayer: these words went wandering up and down in my rayless mind, as something that should be whispered, but no energy was found to express them — "Be not far from me, for trouble is near: there is none to help."†
Chpt 26 (definition 1)

I did what human beings do instinctively when they are driven to utter extremity — looked for aid to one higher than man: the words "God help me!" burst involuntarily from my lips.†
Chpt 27 (definition 2)

I was seized with shame: my tongue would not utter the request I had prepared.†
Chpt 28 (definition 2)

I sank on the wet doorstep: I groaned — I wrung my hands — I wept in utter anguish.†
Chpt 28 (definition 2)

These words I not only thought, but uttered; and thrusting back all my misery into my heart, I made an effort to compel it to remain there — dumb and still.†
Chpt 28 (definition 1)

Say again you will be my brother: when you uttered the words I was satisfied, happy; repeat them, if you can, repeat them sincerely.†
Chpt 33 (definition 1)

He just looked in at the doors I opened; and when he had wandered upstairs and downstairs, he said I must have gone through a great deal of fatigue and trouble to have effected such considerable changes in so short a time: but not a syllable did he utter indicating pleasure in the improved aspect of his abode.†
Chpt 34 (definition 2)

"And Rosamond Oliver?" suggested Mary, the words seeming to escape her lips involuntarily: for no sooner had she uttered them, than she made a gesture as if wishing to recall them.†
Chpt 34 (definition 1)

I will not swear, reader, that there was not something of repressed sarcasm both in the tone in which I uttered this sentence, and in the feeling that accompanied it.†
Chpt 34 (definition 1)

He was silent after I had uttered the last sentence, and I presently risked an upward glance at his countenance.†
Chpt 34 (definition 1)

…would be recesses in my mind which would be only mine, to which he never came, and sentiments growing there fresh and sheltered which his austerity could never blight, nor his measured warrior-march trample down: but as his wife — at his side always, and always restrained, and always checked — forced to keep the fire of my nature continually low, to compel it to burn inwardly and never utter a cry, though the imprisoned flame consumed vital after vital — THIS would be unendurable.†
Chpt 34 (definition 2)

"I scarcely expected to hear that expression from you," he said: "I think I have done and uttered nothing to deserve scorn."†
Chpt 34 (definition 1)

But this time his feelings were all pent in his heart: I was not worthy to hear them uttered.†
Chpt 34 (definition 1)

"You utterly misinterpret my words," I said, at once seizing his hand: "I have no intention to grieve or pain you — indeed, I have not."†
Chpt 35 (definition 2)

The succeeding words thrilled me strangely as he spoke them: especially as I felt, by the slight, indescribable alteration in sound, that in uttering them, his eye had turned on me.†
Chpt 35 (definition 1)

He laid his hand on my head as he uttered the last words.†
Chpt 35 (definition 1) *

All was changing utterly with a sudden sweep.†
Chpt 35 (definition 2)

He thus grasps and cries, and gazes, because he no longer fears to waken by any sound he can utter — by any movement he can make.†
Chpt 36 (definition 2)

I preferred utter loneliness to the constant attendance of servants; but Jane's soft ministry will be a perpetual joy.†
Chpt 37 (definition 2)

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(1) (utter as in: utter a complaint)
say something or make a sound with the voice

(2) (utter as in: utter stupidity)
complete or total (used as an intensifier--typically when stressing how bad something is)

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