All 9 Uses of
illustrate
in
Bleak House
- To hear Mr. Boythorn presently expressing the most implacable and passionate sentiments, with this fragile mite of a creature quietly perched on his forehead, was to have a good illustration of his character, I thought.
Chpt 7-9illustration = something that helps clarify or demonstrate
- How delightfully poor Coavinses (father of these charming children) illustrated the same principle!†
Chpt 13-15
- All this time he was, in money affairs, what I have described him in a former illustration—generous, profuse, wildly careless, but fully persuaded that he was rather calculating and prudent.†
Chpt 16-18
- With this unexpected speech, energetically delivered and accompanied by action illustrative of the various exercises referred to, Phil Squod shoulders his way round three sides of the gallery, and abruptly tacking off at his commander, makes a butt at him with his head, intended to express devotion to his service.†
Chpt 25-27 *
- Now, this appears to me a case of misdirected energy, which has a certain amount of reason in it and a certain amount of romance; and I don't know but what I should be more interested in our young friend, as an illustration of such a case, than merely as a poor vagabond—which any one can be."†
Chpt 31-33
- I was much impressed by her allusion to Richard and by the sad meaning, so sadly illustrated in her poor pinched form, that made its way through all her incoherence.†
Chpt 34-36
- Illustrating with the cellar-key.†
Chpt 40-42
- Lady Dedlock asks on sitting down to dinner, still deadly pale (and quite an illustration of the debilitated cousin's text), whether he is gone out?†
Chpt 46-48
- "The ceremony of to-day," continues Sir Leicester, "strikingly illustrative of the respect in which my deceased friend"—he lays a stress upon the word, for death levels all distinctions—"was held by the flower of the land, has, I say, aggravated the shock I have received from this most horrible and audacious crime.†
Chpt 52-54
Definition:
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(illustrate as in: as illustrated by this example) to help make clear -- typically by example