All 17 Uses of
deliberate
in
Bleak House
- I should amend that phrase, however, by saying that he had unquestionably died of his own act, though whether by his own deliberate intention or by mischance can never certainly be known.†
Chpt 10-12
- With two ladies in the coach, this scoundrel has deliberately delayed his arrival six and twenty minutes.†
Chpt 16-18
- Deliberately!†
Chpt 16-18
- She remained perfectly still until the carriage had turned into the drive, and then, without the least discomposure of countenance, slipped off her shoes, left them on the ground, and walked deliberately in the same direction through the wettest of the wet grass.†
Chpt 16-18
- "Why, it matters this much, mistress," says the lawyer, deliberately putting away his handkerchief and adjusting his frill; "the law is so despotic here that it interferes to prevent any of our good English citizens from being troubled, even by a lady's visits against his desire.†
Chpt 40-42
- I should wish it to be so deliberately said, and so deliberately considered.†
Chpt 43-45
- I should wish it to be so deliberately said, and so deliberately considered.†
Chpt 43-45
- It dwelt on my being young, and he past the prime of life; on his having attained a ripe age, while I was a child; on his writing to me with a silvered head, and knowing all this so well as to set it in full before me for mature deliberation.†
Chpt 43-45
- This she says with great deliberation and distinctness and with no more outward passion than himself.†
Chpt 46-48 *
- "So I have understood, George," returns Mr. Bucket with great deliberation.†
Chpt 49-51
- Having leisurely helped himself from a canister borrowed from somebody downstairs for the purpose, and having made a considerable show of tasting it, first with one side of his nose and then with the other, Mr. Bucket, with much deliberation, pronounces it of the right sort and goes on, letter in hand.†
Chpt 52-54
- Mr. Bucket stops and deliberately repeats, "Ought to have been her husband, not a doubt about it.†
Chpt 52-54
- Now, whether she became my lodger, Sir Leicester Dedlock, with any deliberate intention then of doing this deed and blinding me, I give no opinion on; but she lived in my house in that capacity at the time that she was hovering about the chambers of the deceased Mr. Tulkinghorn with a view to a wrangle, and likewise persecuting and half frightening the life out of an unfortunate stationer.†
Chpt 52-54
- If you ever say less than this, you will be guilty of deliberate falsehood to me.†
Chpt 58-60
- "Some other prospect has opened to him, perhaps?" said I. "Why—yes—perhaps," returned my guardian, beginning his answer in a very deliberate manner.†
Chpt 58-60
- Shall I shake that faith in Bucket because I want it myself; shall I deliberately blunt one of Bucket's weapons; shall I positively paralyse Bucket in his next detective operation?†
Chpt 61-63
- "I can tell you, George," replies the ironmaster deliberately, "how it is not to be brought about, which I hope may answer the purpose as well.†
Chpt 61-63
Definition:
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(deliberate as in: need to deliberate) to think about or discuss -- especially with great care