Both Uses of
fraught
in
Bleak House
- Mr. Tulkinghorn being always correct and exact; still that does not," says Sir Leicester, "that does not lessen the anomaly, which is fraught with strange considerations—startling considerations, as it appears to me."†
Chpt 28-30
- In the ears of his old servant, looking as if she had stepped out of an old picture-frame to attend a summoned Dedlock to another world, the silence is fraught with echoes of her own words, "Who will tell him!"†
Chpt 58-60 *
Definition:
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(fraught) full of negative things; or marked by or causing distress