All 10 Uses of
apparent
in
Bleak House
- "You wouldn't allow me to offer you one, would you miss?" said Mr. Guppy, apparently refreshed.†
Chpt 7-9 *
- Quickly the waitress returns bearing what is apparently a model of the Tower of Babel but what is really a pile of plates and flat tin dish-covers.†
Chpt 19-21
- Brimstone apparently suggested by his eye lighting on Mrs. Smallweed in her slumber.†
Chpt 19-21
- Jo, apparently possessed by an impression that the reverend gentleman wants to cut his hair, shields his head with both arms and is got into the required position with great difficulty and every possible manifestation of reluctance.†
Chpt 25-27
- Mr. Bagnet, in a perfect abyss of gravity, walks up and down before the little parlour window like a sentry and looks in every time he passes, apparently revolving something in his mind.†
Chpt 34-36
- "Excuse the apparent curiosity," says Mr. George.†
Chpt 46-48
- It won't do to have truth and justice on his side; he must have law and lawyers," exclaims the old girl, apparently persuaded that the latter form a separate establishment and have dissolved partnership with truth and justice for ever and a day.†
Chpt 55-57
- On arriving at the cottage, we found it shut up and apparently deserted, but one of the neighbours who knew me and who came out when I was trying to make some one hear informed me that the two women and their husbands now lived together in another house, made of loose rough bricks, which stood on the margin of the piece of ground where the kilns were and where the long rows of bricks were drying.†
Chpt 55-57
- He is lying thus, apparently forgetful of his newer and minor surprise, when the housekeeper returns, accompanied by her trooper son.†
Chpt 58-60
- Rouncewell's is so great apparently," mutters the trooper, stroking his chin, "that I have as good as half a mind to go back again.†
Chpt 61-63
Definition:
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(apparent) clear or obvious; or appearing as such but not necessarily so