All 8 Uses of
inscribe
in
Bleak House
- There was a confused little crowd of people, principally children, gathered about the house at which we stopped, which had a tarnished brass plate on the door with the inscription JELLYBY.†
Chpt 4-6
- In another was the inscription BONES BOUGHT.†
Chpt 4-6 *
- Some of the inscriptions I have enumerated were written in law-hand, like the papers I had seen in Kenge and Carboy's office and the letters I had so long received from the firm.†
Chpt 4-6
- On that occasion, Cook's Court was in a manner revolutionized by the new inscription in fresh paint, PEFFER AND SNAGSBY, displacing the time-honoured and not easily to be deciphered legend PEFFER only.†
Chpt 10-12
- When she was no longer in commission, he frequently said that if he were rich enough to buy her old hulk, he would have an inscription let into the timbers of the quarterdeck where we stood as partners in the dance to mark the spot where he fell—raked fore and aft (Captain Swosser used to say) by the fire from my tops.†
Chpt 13-15
- "It is, sir," returned Mr. George, glancing up at the great letters in which that inscription was painted on the whitewashed wall.†
Chpt 22-24
- CHAPTER XXXIX Attorney and Client The name of Mr. Vholes, preceded by the legend Ground-Floor, is inscribed upon a door-post in Symond's Inn, Chancery Lane—a little, pale, wall-eyed, woebegone inn like a large dust-binn of two compartments and a sifter.†
Chpt 37-39
- Against the mouldering wall by which they stood, there was a bill, on which I could discern the words, "Found Drowned"; and this and an inscription about drags possessed me with the awful suspicion shadowed forth in our visit to that place.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(inscribe) to writein various senses, including:
- to write, carve, or etch words onto something's surface -- as in "The names of the major donors will be inscribed on the front wall."
- to write a signed message and/or signature -- as in "She inscribed the book with the message: I know this story will speak to your heart. Love Emma"
- to write down something when adding it to a list -- as in "Their names were inscribed in the register of at Ellis Island."