All 23 Uses of
correspond
in
Bleak House
- It involves me in correspondence with public bodies and with private individuals anxious for the welfare of their species all over the country.†
Chpt 4-6 (definition 1)
- Peepy (so self-named) was the unfortunate child who had fallen downstairs, who now interrupted the correspondence by presenting himself, with a strip of plaster on his forehead, to exhibit his wounded knees, in which Ada and I did not know which to pity most— the bruises or the dirt.†
Chpt 4-6 (definition 2)
- She was greatly occupied during breakfast, for the morning's post brought a heavy correspondence relative to Borrioboola-Gha, which would occasion her (she said) to pass a busy day.†
Chpt 4-6 (definition 2)
- It is said that she had relations among King Charles's enemies, that she was in correspondence with them, and that she gave them information.†
Chpt 7-9 (definition 1) *
- It amazed us when we began to sort his letters and to answer some of them for him in the growlery of a morning to find how the great object of the lives of nearly all his correspondents appeared to be to form themselves into committees for getting in and laying out money.†
Chpt 7-9 (definition 1)
- Among the ladies who were most distinguished for this rapacious benevolence (if I may use the expression) was a Mrs. Pardiggle, who seemed, as I judged from the number of her letters to Mr. Jarndyce, to be almost as powerful a correspondent as Mrs. Jellyby herself.†
Chpt 7-9 (definition 2)
- "You have an unusual amount of correspondence this morning?" says my Lady after a long time.†
Chpt 10-12 (definition 2)
- Sometimes I considered whether I should write to his mother, but that ended in my being convinced that to open a correspondence would be to make the matter worse.†
Chpt 13-15 (definition 2)
- She had given him her hand in an indifferent way that seemed habitual to her and spoke in a correspondingly indifferent manner, though in a very pleasant voice.†
Chpt 16-18 (definition 2) *
- And then he showed me, proved by elaborate calculations in his pocket-book, that supposing he had contracted, say, two hundred pounds of debt in six months out of the army; and that he contracted no debt at all within a corresponding period in the army—as to which he had quite made up his mind; this step must involve a saving of four hundred pounds in a year, or two thousand pounds in five years, which was a considerable sum.†
Chpt 22-24 (definition 2)
- Going upstairs to Mrs. Jellyby's room (the children were all screaming in the kitchen, and there was no servant to be seen), we found that lady in the midst of a voluminous correspondence, opening, reading, and sorting letters, with a great accumulation of torn covers on the floor.†
Chpt 22-24 (definition 2)
- Mat's old mother in Scotland, and your old father somewhere else, corresponded with, and helped a little, and—well, well!†
Chpt 25-27 (definition 2)
- A maid of honour of the court of Charles the Second, with large round eyes (and other charms to correspond), seems to bathe in glowing water, and it ripples as it glows.†
Chpt 40-42 (definition 2)
- They were dressed to correspond, though in a most untidy and negligent way.†
Chpt 43-45 (definition 2)
- He showed me without hesitation a correspondence making it quite plain that his retirement was arranged.†
Chpt 43-45 (definition 2)
- The toast having been drunk with enthusiasm, Mrs. Bagnet returns thanks in a neat address of corresponding brevity.†
Chpt 49-51 (definition 2)
- Now although Mr. Bucket walks upstairs to the little library within the larger one with the face of a man who receives some scores of letters every day, it happens that much correspondence is not incidental to his life.†
Chpt 52-54 (definition 2)
- He is no great scribe, rather handling his pen like the pocket-staff he carries about with him always convenient to his grasp, and discourages correspondence with himself in others as being too artless and direct a way of doing delicate business.†
Chpt 52-54 (definition 1)
- Smartened up by the aid of a clean shirt and a wet hairbrush, with which instrument, on occasions of ceremony, he lubricates such thin locks as remain to him after his life of severe study, Mr. Bucket lays in a breakfast of two mutton chops as a foundation to work upon, together with tea, eggs, toast, and marmalade on a corresponding scale.†
Chpt 52-54 (definition 2)
- What do you say to Mrs. Bucket having, within this halfhour, secured the corresponding ink and paper, fellow half-sheets and what not?†
Chpt 52-54 (definition 2)
- I am not much accustomed to correspondence myself, and I am particular respecting this present letter because I want it to be both straightforward and delicate.†
Chpt 61-63 (definition 2)
- Therefore it is sealed and deposited for posting among the iron correspondence of the day.†
Chpt 61-63 (definition 2)
- She has been disappointed in Borrioboola-Gha, which turned out a failure in consequence of the king of Borrioboola wanting to sell everybody—who survived the climate—for rum, but she has taken up with the rights of women to sit in Parliament, and Caddy tells me it is a mission involving more correspondence than the old one.†
Chpt 66-67 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (correspond as in: corresponding by email) communicate -- typically by writing letters or emaileditor's notes: A corresponding secretary is an officer of an organization who is responsible for managing the organization's correspondence and keeping a record of it.
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(2) (correspond as in: corresponding time period) connect or fit together by being equivalent, proportionate, or matched
(Two things are equivalent if they have the same or very similar value, purpose, or result.)