All 3 Uses of
vista
in
Bleak House
- Seated among these, we looked through a green vista supported by thousands of natural columns, the whitened stems of trees, upon a distant prospect made so radiant by its contrast with the shade in which we sat and made so precious by the arched perspective through which we saw it that it was like a glimpse of the better land.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- Mr. Bucket looks at him as if his face were a vista of some miles in length and he were leisurely contemplating the same.†
Chpt 52-54
- "I hope," said Mr. Kenge, "that the genial influence of Miss Summerson," he bowed to me, "may have induced Mr. Jarndyce," he bowed to him, "to forego some little of his animosity towards a cause and towards a court which are—shall I say, which take their place in the stately vista of the pillars of our profession?"†
Chpt 61-63
Definition:
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(vista) view
or more rarely:
a view of a possible future