All 11 Uses of
abstract
in
Bleak House
- My Lady carelessly and scornfully abstracts her attention.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- "Yes," said the old man abstractedly.†
Chpt 4-6 *
- "Aye!" said the old man, coming slowly out of his abstraction.†
Chpt 4-6
- He has shown neither patience nor impatience, nor attention nor abstraction.†
Chpt 10-12
- Almost frightened by coming upon him so unexpectedly, I stood still for a moment and should have retired without speaking had he not, in again passing his hand abstractedly through his hair, seen me and started.†
Chpt 16-18
- Now and then, when they pass a police-constable on his beat, Mr. Snagsby notices that both the constable and his guide fall into a deep abstraction as they come towards each other, and appear entirely to overlook each other, and to gaze into space.†
Chpt 22-24
- "Oh, you ridiculous child!" observed Mrs. Jellyby with an abstracted air as she looked over the dispatch last opened; "what a goose you are!"†
Chpt 22-24
- The abstracted manner in which Mrs. Jellyby would deliver herself up to having this attire tried on by the dressmaker, and the sweetness with which she would then observe to me how sorry she was that I had not turned my thoughts to Africa, were consistent with the rest of her behaviour.†
Chpt 28-30
- Whereas now I do declare to you that he becomes to me the embodiment of the suit; that in place of its being an abstraction, it is John Jarndyce; that the more I suffer, the more indignant I am with him; that every new delay and every new disappointment is only a new injury from John Jarndyce's hand."†
Chpt 37-39
- Like man in the abstract, he is here to-day and gone to-morrow—but, very unlike man indeed, he is here again the next day.†
Chpt 52-54
- I found Richard thin and languid, slovenly in his dress, abstracted in his manner, forcing his spirits now and then, and at other intervals relapsing into a dull thoughtfulness.†
Chpt 58-60
Definitions:
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(abstract as in: read the abstract) a summary; or to summarize -- especially academic writing
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(abstract as in: abstract thought) of a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance