All 7 Uses of
thoroughfare
in
Bleak House
- There are offices about the Inns of Court in which a man might be cool, if any coolness were worth purchasing at such a price in dullness; but the little thoroughfares immediately outside those retirements seem to blaze.†
Chpt 19-21
- Mr. Snagsby says nothing to this effect, says nothing at all indeed, but coughs his forlornest cough, expressive of no thoroughfare in any direction.†
Chpt 19-21 *
- Mrs. Piper and Mrs. Perkins, whose respective sons, engaged with a circle of acquaintance in the game of hide and seek, have been lying in ambush about the by-ways of Chancery Lane for some hours and scouring the plain of the same thoroughfare to the confusion of passengers—Mrs. Piper and Mrs. Perkins have but now exchanged congratulations on the children being abed, and they still linger on a door-step over a few parting words.†
Chpt 31-33
- At last the fugitive, hard-pressed, takes to a narrow passage and a court which has no thoroughfare.†
Chpt 46-48
- We rattled with great rapidity through such a labyrinth of streets that I soon lost all idea where we were, except that we had crossed and re-crossed the river, and still seemed to be traversing a low-lying, waterside, dense neighbourhood of narrow thoroughfares chequered by docks and basins, high piles of warehouses, swing-bridges, and masts of ships.†
Chpt 55-57
- Sometimes we emerged upon a wider thoroughfare or came to a larger building than the generality, well lighted.†
Chpt 58-60
- Similarly, Mr. Boythorn continues to post tremendous placards on the disputed thoroughfare and (with his bird upon his head) to hold forth vehemently against Sir Leicester in the sanctuary of his own home; similarly, also, he defies him as of old in the little church by testifying a bland unconsciousness of his existence.†
Chpt 66-67
Definition:
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(thoroughfare) a road -- typically a main road, but potentially any road, path, or means of getting from one place to another