All 17 Uses of
eloquent
in
Bleak House
- Tangle," says the Lord High Chancellor, latterly something restless under the eloquence of that learned gentleman.†
Chpt 1-3
- He is found sometimes, speechless but quite at home, at corners of dinner-tables in great country houses and near doors of drawing-rooms, concerning which the fashionable intelligence is eloquent, where everybody knows him and where half the Peerage stops to say "How do you do, Mr. Tulkinghorn?"†
Chpt 1-3
- Truly eloquent indeed.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- Mrs. Pardiggle wrote a letter of introduction to my guardian in behalf of her eloquent friend Mr. Gusher.†
Chpt 13-15
- Jo, thus apostrophized, gives a slouch backward, and another slouch forward, and another slouch to each side, and confronts the eloquent Chadband with evident doubts of his intentions.†
Chpt 19-21
- He has a great deal of eloquence at his command, undoubtedly, but I am not quite favourable to his style myself.†
Chpt 22-24
- Mrs. Chadband composes herself grimly by the fire and warms her knees, finding that sensation favourable to the reception of eloquence.†
Chpt 25-27
- Though it may be, Jo, that there is a history so interesting and affecting even to minds as near the brutes as thine, recording deeds done on this earth for common men, that if the Chadbands, removing their own persons from the light, would but show it thee in simple reverence, would but leave it unimproved, would but regard it as being eloquent enough without their modest aid—it might hold thee awake, and thou might learn from it yet!†
Chpt 25-27
- As to Volumnia, she is handed down the great staircase by Sir Leicester, as eloquent upon the theme as if there were a general rising in the north of England to obtain her rouge-pot and pearl necklace.†
Chpt 28-30
- But before we drove away too, I received a most unexpected and eloquent compliment from Mr. Jellyby.†
Chpt 28-30
- Here Mr. Smallweed, wrought up to the highest pitch by his own eloquence, actually throws Judy at her grandmother in default of anything else, by butting that young virgin at the old lady with such force as he can muster and then dropping into his chair in a heap.†
Chpt 31-33
- Tony"—Mr. Guppy becomes mysteriously and tenderly eloquent—"it is necessary that I should impress upon your mind once more that circumstances over which I have no control have made a melancholy alteration in my most cherished plans and in that unrequited image which I formerly mentioned to you as a friend.†
Chpt 37-39
- I am not one of the eloquent sort, but I feel it, Miss Summerson and gentlemen, deeply.†
Chpt 52-54
- But they are very eloquent, very, very eloquent.†
Chpt 55-57
- But they are very eloquent, very, very eloquent.†
Chpt 55-57
- When Richard turns his eyes upon me then, there may be something lying on my breast more eloquent than I have been, with greater power than mine to show him his true course and win him back.†
Chpt 58-60
- You are further to reflect, Mr. Woodcourt," becoming dignified almost to severity, "that on the numerous difficulties, contingencies, masterly fictions, and forms of procedure in this great cause, there has been expended study, ability, eloquence, knowledge, intellect, Mr. Woodcourt, high intellect.†
Chpt 64-65
Definition:
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(eloquent) powerful use of language