All 9 Uses of
combustion
in
Bleak House
- The possibility of what is called spontaneous combustion has been denied since the death of Mr. Krook; and my good friend Mr. Lewes (quite mistaken, as he soon found, in supposing the thing to have been abandoned by all authorities) published some ingenious letters to me at the time when that event was chronicled, arguing that spontaneous combustion could not possibly be.†
Chpt Pref.
- The possibility of what is called spontaneous combustion has been denied since the death of Mr. Krook; and my good friend Mr. Lewes (quite mistaken, as he soon found, in supposing the thing to have been abandoned by all authorities) published some ingenious letters to me at the time when that event was chronicled, arguing that spontaneous combustion could not possibly be.†
Chpt Pref.
- The subject was a woman, whose husband was ignorantly convicted of having murdered her; but on solemn appeal to a higher court, he was acquitted because it was shown upon the evidence that she had died the death of which this name of spontaneous combustion is given.†
Chpt Pref. *
- ,* the recorded opinions and experiences of distinguished medical professors, French, English, and Scotch, in more modern days, contenting myself with observing that I shall not abandon the facts until there shall have been a considerable spontaneous combustion of the testimony on which human occurrences are usually received.†
Chpt Pref.
- Call the death by any name your Highness will, attribute it to whom you will, or say it might have been prevented how you will, it is the same death eternally—inborn, inbred, engendered in the corrupted humours of the vicious body itself, and that only—spontaneous combustion, and none other of all the deaths that can be died.†
Chpt 31-33
- Good Lord, you don't suppose that I would go spontaneously combusting any person, my dear?"†
Chpt 31-33
- My dear, merely to know the rights of the fatal accident which has happened to the venerable party who has been—combusted.†
Chpt 31-33
- "William," says Mr. Weevle, adjusting his whiskers, "there's combustion going on there!†
Chpt 37-39
- It's not a case of spontaneous, but it's smouldering combustion it is."†
Chpt 37-39
Definition:
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(combustion) the act of burning
or metaphorically:
a state of violent disturbance and excitement