All 12 Uses of
audible
in
Bleak House
- Ada touched the notes so softly and sang so low that the wind, sighing away to the distant hills, was as audible as the music.†
Chpt 4-6 *
- They have long been audible to the younger ears of her companion.†
Chpt 7-9
- Mr. Gusher, being a flabby gentleman with a moist surface and eyes so much too small for his moon of a face that they seemed to have been originally made for somebody else, was not at first sight prepossessing; yet he was scarcely seated before Mr. Quale asked Ada and me, not inaudibly, whether he was not a great creature—which he certainly was, flabbily speaking, though Mr. Quale meant in intellectual beauty— and whether we were not struck by his massive configuration of brow.†
Chpt 13-15
- There is a press in the room, but its hinges have not creaked, nor has a step been audible upon the floor.†
Chpt 22-24
- …that Mr. Chadband has a pulpit habit of fixing some member of his congregation with his eye and fatly arguing his points with that particular person, who is understood to be expected to be moved to an occasional grunt, groan, gasp, or other audible expression of inward working, which expression of inward working, being echoed by some elderly lady in the next pew and so communicated like a game of forfeits through a circle of the more fermentable sinners present, serves the purpose of…†
Chpt 25-27
- Such the guests in the long drawing-room at Chesney Wold this dismal night when the step on the Ghost's Walk (inaudible here, however) might be the step of a deceased cousin shut out in the cold.†
Chpt 28-30
- Phil, on one knee at the target, is in course of protesting earnestly, though not without many allegorical scoops of his brush and smoothings of the white surface round the rim with his thumb, that he had forgotten the Bagnet responsibility and would not so much as injure a hair of the head of any member of that worthy family when steps are audible in the long passage without, and a cheerful voice is heard to wonder whether George is at home.†
Chpt 34-36
- Mr. Vholes, after glancing at the official cat who is patiently watching a mouse's hole, fixes his charmed gaze again on his young client and proceeds in his buttoned-up, half-audible voice as if there were an unclean spirit in him that will neither come out nor speak out, "What are you to do, sir, you inquire, during the vacation.†
Chpt 37-39
- Mademoiselle is hardly audible in straining through her teeth and lips the words, "You are a devil."†
Chpt 52-54
- Trilling it out like a kind of bird, with a pretty high note, that it may be audible to the old lady above the hum of the wheels.†
Chpt 55-57
- If any distant sound be audible in this case, it departs through the gloom like a feeble light in that, and all is heavier than before.†
Chpt 58-60
- At the same time I remember that the poor girl seemed to be yet telling her story audibly and plainly in my hearing, that I could feel her resting on my arm, that the stained house-fronts put on human shapes and looked at me, that great water-gates seemed to be opening and closing in my head or in the air, and that the unreal things were more substantial than the real.†
Chpt 58-60
Definition:
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(audible as in: barely audible) capable of being heard