All 21 Uses of
profound
in
Bleak House
- This seemed to me too profound a joke to be inserted in the body of this book or I should have restored it to Conversation Kenge or to Mr. Vholes, with one or other of whom I think it must have originated.†
Chpt Pref.
- There are deferential people in a dozen callings whom my Lady Dedlock suspects of nothing but prostration before her, who can tell you how to manage her as if she were a baby, who do nothing but nurse her all their lives, who, humbly affecting to follow with profound subservience, lead her and her whole troop after them; who, in hooking one, hook all and bear them off as Lemuel Gulliver bore away the stately fleet of the majestic Lilliput.†
Chpt 1-3
- (with profound contempt).†
Chpt 4-6 *
- They straggle about in wrong places, look at wrong things, don't care for the right things, gape when more rooms are opened, exhibit profound depression of spirits, and are clearly knocked up.†
Chpt 7-9
- Mrs. Rouncewell is in attendance and receives Sir Leicester's customary shake of the hand with a profound curtsy.†
Chpt 10-12
- "It is natural to such a man to be so," says Sir Leicester, looking most profoundly obstinate himself.†
Chpt 10-12 *
- I felt all through the performance that he never looked at the actors but constantly looked at me, and always with a carefully prepared expression of the deepest misery and the profoundest dejection.†
Chpt 13-15
- The one grand recipe remains for you—the profound philosophical prescription—the be-all and the end-all of your strange existence upon earth.†
Chpt 19-21
- On the strength of these profound views, he in the most ingenious manner takes infinite pains to counterplot when there is no plot, and plays the deepest games of chess without any adversary.†
Chpt 19-21
- Mr. George salutes the gentleman but otherwise sits bolt upright and profoundly silent—very forward in his chair, as if the full complement of regulation appendages for a field-day hung about him.†
Chpt 25-27
- Mr. Bagnet's gravity becomes yet more profound.†
Chpt 34-36
- Mr. Bagnet's gravity has now attained its profoundest point.†
Chpt 34-36
- Three feet of knotty-floored dark passage bring the client to Mr. Vholes's jet-black door, in an angle profoundly dark on the brightest midsummer morning and encumbered by a black bulk-head of cellarage staircase against which belated civilians generally strike their brows.†
Chpt 37-39
- Now the woods settle into great masses as if they were each one profound tree.†
Chpt 40-42
- Mr. Tulkinghorn, profoundly attentive, throws this off with a shrug of self-depreciation and contracts his eyebrows a little more.†
Chpt 40-42
- He folded his arms and sat looking at me with an air of the profoundest astonishment, awaiting what I should say next.†
Chpt 43-45
- Mr. George smokes with a profound meaning after this and surveys Miss Flite in silence.†
Chpt 46-48
- On young Woolwich's last birthday, Mr. Bagnet certainly did, after observing on his growth and general advancement, proceed, in a moment of profound reflection on the changes wrought by time, to examine him in the catechism, accomplishing with extreme accuracy the questions number one and two, "What is your name?" and "Who gave you that name?" but there failing in the exact precision of his memory and substituting for number three the question "And how do you like that name?" which he…†
Chpt 49-51
- In an arched room by himself, like a cellar upstairs, with walls so glaringly white that they made the massive iron window-bars and iron-bound door even more profoundly black than they were, we found the trooper standing in a corner.†
Chpt 52-54
- He stood up to look over the parapet, he alighted and went back after a shadowy female figure that flitted past us, and he gazed into the profound black pit of water with a face that made my heart die within me.†
Chpt 55-57
- I was quite unprepared for the rapid manner in which Mrs. Guppy's power of jocularity merged into a power of taking the profoundest offence.†
Chpt 64-65
Definitions:
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(profound as in: profound sadness) of greatest intensity or emotional depth
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(profound as in: profound idea) deep or far-reaching in intellect or consequence