All 3 Uses of
medley
in
Bleak House
- He proposed to show us his Court of Chancery and all the strange medley it contained; during the whole of our inspection (prolonged by himself) he kept close to Mr. Jarndyce and sometimes detained him under one pretence or other until we had passed on, as if he were tormented by an inclination to enter upon some secret subject which he could not make up his mind to approach.†
Chpt 13-15
- The theatre over, Mr. George comes across the water again and makes his way to that curious region lying about the Haymarket and Leicester Square which is a centre of attraction to indifferent foreign hotels and indifferent foreigners, racket-courts, fightingmen, swordsmen, footguards, old china, gaming-houses, exhibitions, and a large medley of shabbiness and shrinking out of sight.†
Chpt 19-21
- A table and some shelves were covered with manuscript papers and with worn pens and a medley of such tokens.†
Chpt 22-24 *
Definition:
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(medley) a mixture of thingssometimes specifically:
- a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources
- a swimming race or relay in which different strokes are used