All 50 Uses of
Bleak House
in
Bleak House
- In Bleak House I have purposely dwelt upon the romantic side of familiar things.†
Chpt Pref. *
- "The Jarndyce in question," said the Lord Chancellor, still turning over leaves, "is Jarndyce of Bleak House."†
Chpt 1-3
- "Jarndyce of Bleak House, my lord," said Mr. Kenge.†
Chpt 1-3
- "And Bleak House," said his lordship, "is in—"†
Chpt 1-3
- Jarndyce of Bleak House is not married?" said his lordship.†
Chpt 1-3
- Jarndyce of Bleak House, my lord," Mr. Kenge observed in a low voice, "if I may venture to remind your lordship, provides a suitable companion for—"†
Chpt 1-3
- sitting near the Lord Chancellor, with whom his lordship spoke a little part, asking her, as she told me afterwards, whether she had well reflected on the proposed arrangement, and if she thought she would be happy under the roof of Mr. Jarndyce of Bleak House, and why she thought so?†
Chpt 1-3
- Mr. Jarndyce of Bleak House has chosen, so far as I may judge," and this was when he looked at me, "a very good companion for the young lady, and the arrangement altogether seems the best of which the circumstances admit."†
Chpt 1-3
- Mr. Kenge proceeded to tell us that as the road to Bleak House would have been very long, dark, and tedious on such an evening, and as we had been travelling already, Mr. Jarndyce had himself proposed this arrangement.†
Chpt 4-6
- It set me thinking so that when Ada was asleep, I still remained before the fire, wondering and wondering about Bleak House, and wondering and wondering that yesterday morning should seem so long ago.†
Chpt 4-6
- Now it was the little mad woman worn out with curtsying and smiling, now some one in authority at Bleak House.†
Chpt 4-6
- In the same odd way, yet with the same rapidity, he then produced singly, and rubbed out singly, the letters forming the words Bleak House.†
Chpt 4-6
- These delays so protracted the journey that the short day was spent and the long night had closed in before we came to St. Albans, near to which town Bleak House was, we knew.†
Chpt 4-6
- There was a light sparkling on the top of a hill before us, and the driver, pointing to it with his whip and crying, "That's Bleak House!" put his horses into a canter and took us forward at such a rate, uphill though it was, that the wheels sent the road drift flying about our heads like spray from a water-mill.†
Chpt 4-6
- Such, with its illuminated windows, softened here and there by shadows of curtains, shining out upon the starlight night; with its light, and warmth, and comfort; with its hospitable jingle, at a distance, of preparations for dinner; with the face of its generous master brightening everything we saw; and just wind enough without to sound a low accompaniment to everything we heard, were our first impressions of Bleak House.†
Chpt 4-6
- Bleak House has an exposed sound.†
Chpt 4-6
- I reminded him, at the hopeful change he had made in Bleak House.†
Chpt 7-9
- Bleak House; true.†
Chpt 7-9
- There is, in that city of London there, some property of ours which is much at this day what Bleak House was then; I say property of ours, meaning of the suit's, but I ought to call it the property of costs, for costs is the only power on earth that will ever get anything out of it now or will ever know it for anything but an eyesore and a heartsore.†
Chpt 7-9
- Although Bleak House was not in Chancery, its master was, and it was stamped with the same seal.†
Chpt 7-9
- We lived, at first, rather a busy life at Bleak House, for we had to become acquainted with many residents in and out of the neighbourhood who knew Mr. Jarndyce.†
Chpt 7-9
- "Guardian," said I, "you remember the happy night when first we came down to Bleak House?†
Chpt 13-15
- Ve-ry happy to receive Jarndyce of Bleak House beneath my humble roof!" with a special curtsy.†
Chpt 13-15
- The wards in Jarndyce—Jarndyce of Bleak House—Fitz-Jarndyce!†
Chpt 13-15
- "I don't know, Mr. Jarndyce of Bleak House!" replied the old man, turning up his spectacles on his forehead and rubbing his hands.†
Chpt 13-15
- "As if you had anything to make you unhappy, instead of everything to make you happy, you ungrateful heart!" said I. If I could have made myself go to sleep, I would have done it directly, but not being able to do that, I took out of my basket some ornamental work for our house (I mean Bleak House) that I was busy with at that time and sat down to it with great determination.†
Chpt 16-18
- It was a question much discussed between him and my guardian what arrangements should be made for his living in London while he experimented on the law, for we had long since gone back to Bleak House, and it was too far off to admit of his coming there oftener than once a week.†
Chpt 16-18
- "Ada, my dear," said Mr. Jarndyce, recovering his cheerfulness, "these are strong words of advice, but I live in Bleak House and have seen a sight here.†
Chpt 22-24
- It was Mrs. Woodcourt, who, having come from Wales to stay with Mrs. Bayham Badger and having written to my guardian, "by her son Allan's desire," to report that she had heard from him and that he was well "and sent his kind remembrances to all of us," had been invited by my guardian to make a visit to Bleak House.†
Chpt 28-30
- Of course I ask for no secrecy at Bleak House.†
Chpt 37-39
- CHAPTER XXXVIII A Struggle When our time came for returning to Bleak House again, we were punctual to the day and were received with an overpowering welcome.†
Chpt 37-39
- It asked me, would I be the mistress of Bleak House.†
Chpt 43-45
- When you are mistress of Bleak House, you are to be as cheerful as a bird.†
Chpt 43-45
- As to its seeming at all strange to me at first (if that were any excuse for crying, which it was not) that I was one day to be the mistress of Bleak House, why should it seem strange?†
Chpt 43-45
- I put my two arms round his neck and kissed him, and he said was this the mistress of Bleak House, and I said yes; and it made no difference presently, and we all went out together, and I said nothing to my precious pet about it.†
Chpt 43-45
- This caused me to feel that I ought to tell her, and Caddy too, that I was going to be the mistress of Bleak House and that if I avoided that disclosure any longer I might become less worthy in my own eyes of its master's love.†
Chpt 49-51
- It was at one of the first of these quiet times that I told Caddy about Bleak House.†
Chpt 49-51
- At length, feeling sure that Ada suppressed this something from me lest it should make me unhappy too, it came into my head that she was a little grieved—for me—by what I had told her about Bleak House.†
Chpt 49-51
- Bleak House is thinning fast.†
Chpt 49-51
- Nevertheless, Bleak House is thinning fast, O little woman!†
Chpt 49-51
- "And in the meanwhile leave Bleak House?" said I. "Aye, my dear?†
Chpt 58-60
- Bleak House," he returned, "must learn to take care of itself."†
Chpt 58-60
- "Bleak House," he repeated—and his tone did NOT sound sorrowful, I found—"must learn to take care of itself.†
Chpt 58-60
- We said no more about it, nor did he say a word about the future of Bleak House.†
Chpt 58-60
- Skimpole," said I, "I must take the liberty of saying before I conclude my visit that I was much surprised to learn, on the best authority, some little time ago, that you knew with whom that poor boy left Bleak House and that you accepted a present on that occasion.†
Chpt 61-63
- You know, you said to me, was this the mistress of Bleak House.†
Chpt 61-63
- And then I said Bleak House was thinning fast; and so it was, my dear.†
Chpt 61-63
- I will be the mistress of Bleak House when you please.†
Chpt 61-63
- When shall we give Bleak House its mistress, little woman?†
Chpt 61-63
- "The day on which I take the happiest and best step of my life—the day on which I shall be a man more exulting and more enviable than any other man in the world—the day on which I give Bleak House its little mistress—shall be next month then," said my guardian.†
Chpt 61-63
Definition:
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(Bleak House) Charles Dickens' novel that used his experience as a law clerk and as an unsuccessful plaintiff fighting pirate publishers of A Christmas Carol to criticize the soon-to-be-reformed English legal system of the time. (1852)