All 4 Uses of
confront
in
Bleak House
- Jo, thus apostrophized, gives a slouch backward, and another slouch forward, and another slouch to each side, and confronts the eloquent Chadband with evident doubts of his intentions.†
Chpt 19-21 *
- Immediately afterwards, he twists him into a public-house and into a parlour, where he confronts him and claps his own back against the door.†
Chpt 49-51
- I confronted the maid in the chambers in Lincoln's Inn Fields with a witness who had been Lady Dedlock's guide, and there couldn't be the shadow of a doubt that she had worn the young woman's dress, unknown to her.†
Chpt 52-54
- Mrs. Chadband, more than ready, so advances as to jostle her husband into the background and confronts Mr. Bucket with a hard, frowning smile.†
Chpt 52-54
Definition:
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(confront) to deal directly with an unpleasant situation or person
or:
to challenge someone -- often by presenting evidence