All 8 Uses of
imply
in
Bleak House
- "Did you imply that he has children of his own, sir?" inquired Richard.†
Chpt 4-6
- I said, "Get up from that ridiculous position immediately, sir, or you will oblige me to break my implied promise and ring the bell!"†
Chpt 7-9 *
- I should be sorry to imply that Mr. Skimpole divined this and was politic; I really never understood him well enough to know.†
Chpt 13-15
- You were so good as to imply, on that occasion—†
Chpt 37-39
- I cannot admit that I implied anything.†
Chpt 37-39
- The client, with his dejection insensibly relieved and his vague hopes rekindled, takes pen and ink and writes the draft, not without perplexed consideration and calculation of the date it may bear, implying scant effects in the agent's hands.†
Chpt 37-39
- Sir Leicester condescendingly says, "Yes, Mr. Tulkinghorn," implying that then she must have appeared of very considerable moral dimensions indeed in the eyes of an iron-master.†
Chpt 40-42
- Thank you!" and also with a wave of his hand, implying not only that there is an end of the discourse, but that if high families fall into low habits they must take the consequences.†
Chpt 52-54
Definition:
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(imply) to suggest or say indirectly -- possibly as a logical consequence