All 50 Uses of
accord
in
Bleak House
- For yourself, unfortunate girl, orphaned and degraded from the first of these evil anniversaries, pray daily that the sins of others be not visited upon your head, according to what is written.†
Chpt 1-3 (definition 1)
- arranged in exact accordance with the wishes of your guardian
Chpt 1-3 (definition 1) *accordance = agreement with
- They seemed to our poor wits, and according to their own accounts, to be constantly polling people by tens of thousands, yet never bringing their candidates in for anything.†
Chpt 7-9 (definition 1)
- My boys have contributed to the African project—Egbert, one and six, being the entire allowance of nine weeks; Oswald, one and a penny halfpenny, being the same; the rest, according to their little means.†
Chpt 7-9 (definition 1)
- I put down my mite first; then my young family enrol their contributions, according to their ages and their little means; and then Mr. Pardiggle brings up the rear.†
Chpt 7-9 (definition 1)
- Now you're a-going to poll-pry and question according to custom—I know what you're a-going to be up to.†
Chpt 7-9 (definition 1)
- Mrs. Pardiggle accordingly rose and made a little vortex in the confined room from which the pipe itself very narrowly escaped.†
Chpt 7-9 (definition 1)
- "I am aware," said Mr. Guppy, leaning forward over the tray and regarding me, as I again strangely felt, though my eyes were not directed to him, with his late intent look, "I am aware that in a worldly point of view, according to all appearances, my offer is a poor one.†
Chpt 7-9 (definition 1)
- The coroner is to sit in the first-floor room at the Sol's Arms, where the Harmonic Meetings take place twice a week and where the chair is filled by a gentleman of professional celebrity, faced by Little Swills, the comic vocalist, who hopes (according to the bill in the window) that his friends will rally round him and support first-rate talent.†
Chpt 10-12 (definition 1)
- Evidence will be given before you as to the circumstances attending that death, and you will give your verdict according to the—skittles; they must be stopped, you know, beadle!†
Chpt 10-12 (definition 1)
- —evidence, and not according to anything else.†
Chpt 10-12 (definition 1)
- For they are the public chroniclers of such inquiries by the line; and he is not superior to the universal human infirmity, but hopes to read in print what "Mooney, the active and intelligent beadle of the district," said and did and even aspires to see the name of Mooney as familiarly and patronizingly mentioned as the name of the hangman is, according to the latest examples.†
Chpt 10-12 (definition 1)
- If you think it is a case of accidental death, you will find a verdict accordingly.†
Chpt 10-12 (definition 1)
- Verdict accordingly.†
Chpt 10-12 (definition 1)
- But according to the old superstition, it should be Rosa's ears that burn, and not her fresh bright cheeks, for my Lady's maid is holding forth about her at this moment with surpassing energy.†
Chpt 10-12 (definition 1)
- All I say before speaking to you according to that assumption is, if you DO change— if you DO come to find that you are more commonplace cousins to each other as man and woman than you were as boy and girl (your manhood will excuse me, Rick!†
Chpt 13-15 (definition 1)
- I accordingly did so, and we chatted all the rest of the way to Lincoln's Inn.†
Chpt 13-15 (definition 1)
- The lady said, of her own accord and not of his seeking, that her name was an assumed one.
Chpt 16-18 (definition 2) *own accord = own mind (voluntarily without anyone asking)
- Such stillness and composure reigned within the orderly precincts of the old red wall that even the feathers hung in garlands to scare the birds hardly stirred; and the wall had such a ripening influence that where, here and there high up, a disused nail and scrap of list still clung to it, it was easy to fancy that they had mellowed with the changing seasons and that they had rusted and decayed according to the common fate.†
Chpt 16-18 (definition 1)
- I find him accord with my digestion and my bilious system.†
Chpt 16-18 (definition 1)
- All the young clerks are madly in love, and according to their various degrees, pine for bliss with the beloved object, at Margate, Ramsgate, or Gravesend.†
Chpt 19-21 (definition 1)
- Mr. Guppy yielding his assent to this proposal, Jo is requested to follow into the drawing-room doorway, where Mr. Guppy takes him in hand as a witness, patting him into this shape, that shape, and the other shape like a butterman dealing with so much butter, and worrying him according to the best models.†
Chpt 19-21 (definition 1)
- Accordingly they betake themselves to a neighbouring dining-house, of the class known among its frequenters by the denomination slapbang, where the waitress, a bouncing young female of forty, is supposed to have made some impression on the susceptible Smallweed, of whom it may be remarked that he is a weird changeling to whom years are nothing.†
Chpt 19-21 (definition 1)
- As his character was not good, and he had been bred at a charity school in a complete course, according to question and answer, of those ancient people the Amorites and Hittites, he was frequently quoted as an example of the failure of education.†
Chpt 19-21 (definition 1)
- Charley is accordingly introduced, and under a heavy fire of eyes, sits down to her basin and a Druidical ruin of bread and butter.†
Chpt 19-21 (definition 1)
- "Now, what YOU want," pursues Bucket, again tapping Mr. Snagsby on the breast in a comfortable and soothing manner, "is that every person should have their rights according to justice.†
Chpt 22-24 (definition 1)
- George, of my opinion you can judge for yourself according to the questions asked of me and the reasons given for asking 'em.†
Chpt 25-27 (definition 1)
- You act according to my opinion?†
Chpt 25-27 (definition 1)
- This, in effect, is Mr. Bagnet's opinion, as delivered through the old girl, and it so relieves Mr. George's mind by confirming his own opinion and banishing his doubts that he composes himself to smoke another pipe on that exceptional occasion and to have a talk over old times with the whole Bagnet family, according to their various ranges of experience.†
Chpt 25-27 (definition 1)
- But while he is stately in the cousinship of the Everybodys, he is a kind and generous man, according to his dignified way, in the cousinship of the Nobodys; and at the present time, in despite of the damp, he stays out the visit of several such cousins at Chesney Wold with the constancy of a martyr.†
Chpt 28-30 (definition 1)
- …to the aforesaid framework receiving tremendous cracks in consequence of people (iron-masters, lead-mistresses, and what not) not minding their catechism, and getting out of the station unto which they are called—necessarily and for ever, according to Sir Leicester's rapid logic, the first station in which they happen to find themselves; and from that, to their educating other people out of THEIR stations, and so obliterating the landmarks, and opening the floodgates, and all the rest…†
Chpt 28-30 (definition 1)
- They dies more than they lives, according to what I see.†
Chpt 31-33 (definition 1)
- But according to my count, it's ten times ten—it's a hundred o'clock.†
Chpt 31-33 (definition 1)
- Mr. Guppy acquiesces, with the reply, "I never should have taken it up, Tony, of my own accord."†
Chpt 31-33 (definition 2)
- Accordingly I wrote a little note to him in London, telling him how all his favourite plants and trees were looking, and how the most astonishing of birds had chirped the honours of the house to me in the most hospitable manner, and how, after singing on my shoulder, to the inconceivable rapture of my little maid, he was then at roost in the usual corner of his cage, but whether dreaming or no I could not report.†
Chpt 34-36 (definition 1)
- I must do Mr. Guppy the further justice of saying that he had looked more and more ashamed and that he looked most ashamed and very earnest when he now replied with a burning face, "Upon my word and honour, upon my life, upon my soul, Miss Summerson, as I am a living man, I'll act according to your wish!†
Chpt 37-39 (definition 1)
- In the midst of which dust and noise there is but one thing perfectly clear, to wit, that Tom only may and can, or shall and will, be reclaimed according to somebody's theory but nobody's practice.†
Chpt 46-48 (definition 1)
- Phil bears down upon them according to his usual tactics.†
Chpt 46-48 (definition 1)
- "Since you have been out, sir, I have been thinking that I unquestionably know the rooms in Lincoln's Inn Fields, where Bucket took the lad, according to his account.†
Chpt 46-48 (definition 1)
- It is morning in the great world, afternoon according to the little sun.†
Chpt 46-48 (definition 1)
- You have put the case in a perfectly plain way, and according to the literal fact; and that being the case, you are not to be trusted.†
Chpt 46-48 (definition 1)
- The auspicious event is always commemorated according to certain forms settled and prescribed by Mr. Bagnet some years since.†
Chpt 49-51 (definition 1)
- I say indelibly, for I felt persuaded that if the fatal cause could have been for ever terminated, according to his brightest visions, in that same hour, the traces of the premature anxiety, self-reproach, and disappointment it had occasioned him would have remained upon his features to the hour of his death.†
Chpt 49-51 (definition 1)
- Well, 'tis not the custom of that breed to go straight, according to my opinion, or to think that other men do.†
Chpt 52-54 (definition 1)
- I don't suppose there's a move on the board that would surprise ME, and as to this or that move having taken place, why my knowing it is no odds at all, any possible move whatever (provided it's in a wrong direction) being a probable move according to my experience.†
Chpt 52-54 (definition 1)
- The old girl would prefer the bar in front, as being exposed to the weather and a primitive sort of perch more in accordance with her usual course of travelling, but Mrs. Rouncewell is too thoughtful of her comfort to admit of her proposing it.†
Chpt 55-57 (definition 1)
- So I thought, according to what he mentioned to me just now.†
Chpt 55-57 (definition 1)
- Accordingly, these steps are taken; and now the trooper, in his rounds, has the house to himself.†
Chpt 58-60 (definition 1)
- And so I told her I had been a poor child myself, and it was according to parishes.†
Chpt 58-60 (definition 1)
- The cunning of Mr. Bucket's eye and the masterly manner in which he contrived, without a look or a word against which his watchful auditor could protest, to let us know that he stated the case according to previous agreement and could say much more of Mr. Smallweed if he thought it advisable, deprived us of any merit in quite understanding him.†
Chpt 61-63 (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (accord as in: according to, or in accord with) in keeping with; or in agreement/harmony/unity withThis meaning of accord is often seen in the form according to or accordingly where it can take on more specific meanings. For example:
- "According to Kim, ..." -- as stated by
- "To each according to her ability." -- based upon
- "Points are scored according to how well they perform." -- depending upon
- "The dose is calculated according to body weight." -- in proportion to
- "We got a flat tire. Accordingly, I pulled to the side of the road." -- because of what was just said; or as a result
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(2) (accord as in: done of her own accord) mindeditor's notes: This sense of accord is typically seen in the form own accord or one accord.