All 50 Uses of
badger
in
Bleak House
- I wants an end of being drawed like a badger.†
Chpt 7-9
- Mr. Kenge's cousin was a Mr. Bayham Badger, who had a good practice at Chelsea and attended a large public institution besides.†
Chpt 13-15
- He was quite willing to receive Richard into his house and to superintend his studies, and as it seemed that those could be pursued advantageously under Mr. Badger's roof, and Mr. Badger liked Richard, and as Richard said he liked Mr. Badger "well enough," an agreement was made, the Lord Chancellor's consent was obtained, and it was all settled.†
Chpt 13-15
- He was quite willing to receive Richard into his house and to superintend his studies, and as it seemed that those could be pursued advantageously under Mr. Badger's roof, and Mr. Badger liked Richard, and as Richard said he liked Mr. Badger "well enough," an agreement was made, the Lord Chancellor's consent was obtained, and it was all settled.†
Chpt 13-15
- He was quite willing to receive Richard into his house and to superintend his studies, and as it seemed that those could be pursued advantageously under Mr. Badger's roof, and Mr. Badger liked Richard, and as Richard said he liked Mr. Badger "well enough," an agreement was made, the Lord Chancellor's consent was obtained, and it was all settled.†
Chpt 13-15
- On the day when matters were concluded between Richard and Mr. Badger, we were all under engagement to dine at Mr. Badger's house.†
Chpt 13-15
- On the day when matters were concluded between Richard and Mr. Badger, we were all under engagement to dine at Mr. Badger's house.†
Chpt 13-15
- We were to be "merely a family party," Mrs. Badger's note said; and we found no lady there but Mrs. Badger herself.†
Chpt 13-15
- We were to be "merely a family party," Mrs. Badger's note said; and we found no lady there but Mrs. Badger herself.†
Chpt 13-15
- Mr. Bayham Badger himself was a pink, fresh-faced, crisp-looking gentleman with a weak voice, white teeth, light hair, and surprised eyes, some years younger, I should say, than Mrs. Bayham Badger.†
Chpt 13-15
- Mr. Bayham Badger himself was a pink, fresh-faced, crisp-looking gentleman with a weak voice, white teeth, light hair, and surprised eyes, some years younger, I should say, than Mrs. Bayham Badger.†
Chpt 13-15
- We had barely taken our seats when he said to Mr. Jarndyce quite triumphantly, "You would hardly suppose that I am Mrs. Bayham Badger's third!"†
Chpt 13-15
- "Her third!" said Mr. Badger.†
Chpt 13-15 *
- Bayham Badger has not the appearance, Miss Summerson, of a lady who has had two former husbands?†
Chpt 13-15
- "And most remarkable men!" said Mr. Badger in a tone of confidence.†
Chpt 13-15
- "Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy, who was Mrs. Badger's first husband, was a very distinguished officer indeed.†
Chpt 13-15
- Mrs. Badger overheard him and smiled.†
Chpt 13-15
- Mr. Badger replied to the smile, "I was observing to Mr. Jarndyce and Miss Summerson that you had had two former husbands—both very distinguished men.†
Chpt 13-15
- "I was barely twenty," said Mrs. Badger, "when I married Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy.†
Chpt 13-15
- "Of European reputation," added Mr. Badger in an undertone.†
Chpt 13-15
- "And when Mr. Badger and myself were married," pursued Mrs. Badger, "we were married on the same day of the year.†
Chpt 13-15
- "And when Mr. Badger and myself were married," pursued Mrs. Badger, "we were married on the same day of the year.†
Chpt 13-15
- "So that Mrs. Badger has been married to three husbands—two of them highly distinguished men," said Mr. Badger, summing up the facts, "and each time upon the twenty-first of March at eleven in the forenoon!"†
Chpt 13-15
- "So that Mrs. Badger has been married to three husbands—two of them highly distinguished men," said Mr. Badger, summing up the facts, "and each time upon the twenty-first of March at eleven in the forenoon!"†
Chpt 13-15
- "But for Mr. Badger's modesty," said Mr. Jarndyce, "I would take leave to correct him and say three distinguished men."†
Chpt 13-15
- What I always tell him!" observed Mrs. Badger.†
Chpt 13-15
- "And, my dear," said Mr. Badger, "what do I always tell you?†
Chpt 13-15
- That without any affectation of disparaging such professional distinction as I may have attained (which our friend Mr. Carstone will have many opportunities of estimating), I am not so weak—no, really," said Mr. Badger to us generally, "so unreasonable—as to put my reputation on the same footing with such first-rate men as Captain Swosser and Professor Dingo.†
Chpt 13-15
- Perhaps you may be interested, Mr. Jarndyce," continued Mr. Bayham Badger, leading the way into the next drawing-room, "in this portrait of Captain Swosser.†
Chpt 13-15
- Mrs. Badger considers it too yellow.†
Chpt 13-15
- "I feel when I look at it," said Mr. Badger, " 'That's a man I should like to have seen!'†
Chpt 13-15
- Over the piano, Mrs. Bayham Badger when Mrs. Swosser.†
Chpt 13-15
- Over the sofa, Mrs. Bayham Badger when Mrs. Dingo.†
Chpt 13-15
- Of Mrs. Bayham Badger IN ESSE, I possess the original and have no copy.†
Chpt 13-15
- But the captain and the professor still ran in Mr. Badger's head, and as Ada and I had the honour of being under his particular care, we had the full benefit of them.†
Chpt 13-15
- "Astonishing how they keep!" said Mr. Badger.†
Chpt 13-15
- They were presented to Mrs. Bayham Badger when she was in the Mediterranean.†
Chpt 13-15
- After dinner, when we ladies retired, we took Mrs. Badger's first and second husband with us.†
Chpt 13-15
- Mrs. Badger gave us in the drawing-room a biographical sketch of the life and services of Captain Swosser before his marriage and a more minute account of him dating from the time when he fell in love with her at a ball on board the Crippler, given to the officers of that ship when she lay in Plymouth Harbour.†
Chpt 13-15
- "The dear old Crippler!" said Mrs. Badger, shaking her head.†
Chpt 13-15
- Mrs. Badger shook her head, sighed, and looked in the glass.†
Chpt 13-15
- It is singular that the professor was the antipodes of Captain Swosser and that Mr. Badger is not in the least like either!†
Chpt 13-15
- In the course of it, Mrs. Badger signified to us that she had never madly loved but once and that the object of that wild affection, never to be recalled in its fresh enthusiasm, was Captain Swosser.†
Chpt 13-15
- The professor was yet dying by inches in the most dismal manner, and Mrs. Badger was giving us imitations of his way of saying, with great difficulty, "Where is Laura?†
Chpt 13-15
- I have forgotten to mention—at least I have not mentioned—that Mr. Woodcourt was the same dark young surgeon whom we had met at Mr. Badger's.†
Chpt 13-15
- Mr. and Mrs. Bayham Badger coming one afternoon when my guardian was not at home, in the course of conversation I naturally inquired after Richard.†
Chpt 16-18
- "Why, Mr. Carstone," said Mrs. Badger, "is very well and is, I assure you, a great acquisition to our society.†
Chpt 16-18
- I said no, as Mrs. Badger's insinuating tone seemed to require such an answer.†
Chpt 16-18
- "Nor Miss Clare?" said Mrs. Bayham Badger sweetly.†
Chpt 16-18
- "Why, you see, my dears," said Mrs. Badger, "—you'll excuse me calling you my dears?"†
Chpt 16-18
Definition:
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(badger as in: saw a badger) a type of mammal that digs tunnels with strong claws and is widely distributed in the northern hemisphere