All 4 Uses of
beguile
in
Bleak House
- The whole seemingly monotonous and uncompanionable half-dozen, stabled together, may pass the long wet hours when the door is shut in livelier communication than is held in the servants' hall or at the Dedlock Arms, or may even beguile the time by improving (perhaps corrupting) the pony in the loose-box in the corner.†
Chpt 7-9
- We beguiled the way with arrangements concerning the letters that Richard was to write to me and the letters that I was to write to him and with a great many hopeful projects.†
Chpt 22-24
- A dense justice in a corner is beguiled into a wink.†
Chpt 40-42 *
- The projects with which she beguiled her illness, for little Esther's education, and little Esther's marriage, and even for her own old age as the grandmother of little Esther's little Esthers, was so prettily expressive of devotion to this pride of her life that I should be tempted to recall some of them but for the timely remembrance that I am getting on irregularly as it is.†
Chpt 49-51
Definition:
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(beguile) to charm, enchant, or entertain someone; or to deceive -- especially through charm