All 34 Uses of
utter
in
Bleak House
- I couldn't wonder at that, for it was mellow and full and gave great importance to every word he uttered.†
Chpt 1-3 (definition 1)
- I was so occupied with Peepy that I lost the letter in detail, though I derived such a general impression from it of the momentous importance of Africa, and the utter insignificance of all other places and things, that I felt quite ashamed to have thought so little about it.†
Chpt 4-6 (definition 2)
- He had taken two or three undecided turns up and down while uttering these broken sentences, retaining the poker in one hand and rubbing his hair with the other, with a good-natured vexation at once so whimsical and so lovable that I am sure we were more delighted with him than we could possibly have expressed in any words.†
Chpt 4-6 (definition 1)
- "Now, my dear Miss Summerson, and my dear Mr. Richard," said Mr. Skimpole gaily, innocently, and confidingly as he looked at his drawing with his head on one side, "here you see me utterly incapable of helping myself, and entirely in your hands!†
Chpt 4-6 (definition 2)
- "I—certainly—did—NOT," said Coavinses, whose doggedness in utterly renouncing the idea was of that intense kind that he could only give adequate expression to it by putting a long interval between each word, and accompanying the last with a jerk that might have dislocated his neck.†
Chpt 4-6 (definition 2)
- He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions, or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any.†
Chpt 7-9 (definition 2) *
- The dinner was put back an hour, and we were sitting round the fire with no light but the blaze when the hall-door suddenly burst open and the hall resounded with these words, uttered with the greatest vehemence and in a stentorian tone: "We have been misdirected, Jarndyce, by a most abandoned ruffian, who told us to take the turning to the right instead of to the left.†
Chpt 7-9 (definition 1)
- We all conceived a prepossession in his favour, for there was a sterling quality in this laugh, and in his vigorous, healthy voice, and in the roundness and fullness with which he uttered every word he spoke, and in the very fury of his superlatives, which seemed to go off like blank cannons and hurt nothing.†
Chpt 7-9 (definition 1)
- To shuffle through the streets, unfamiliar with the shapes, and in utter darkness as to the meaning, of those mysterious symbols, so abundant over the shops, and at the corners of streets, and on the doors, and in the windows!†
Chpt 16-18 (definition 2)
- For he is, by heaven, the most self-satisfied, and the shallowest, and the most coxcombical and utterly brainless ass!†
Chpt 16-18 (definition 2)
- "I say, my friends," pursues Mr. Chadband, utterly rejecting and obliterating Mr. Snagsby's suggestion, "why can we not fly?†
Chpt 19-21 (definition 2)
- So, Mr. Chadband—of whom the persecutors say that it is no wonder he should go on for any length of time uttering such abominable nonsense, but that the wonder rather is that he should ever leave off, having once the audacity to begin—retires into private life until he invests a little capital of supper in the oil-trade.†
Chpt 19-21 (definition 1)
- As the old man inspects, through his glasses, every up-stroke and down-stroke of both documents before he releases them from their leathern prison, and as he counts the money three times over and requires Judy to say every word she utters at least twice, and is as tremulously slow of speech and action as it is possible to be, this business is a long time in progress.†
Chpt 19-21 (definition 1)
- Mr. Turveydrop uttered a groan.†
Chpt 22-24 (definition 1) *
- …while he claws, to slide down in his chair and to collapse into a shapeless bundle, he becomes such a ghastly spectacle, even in the accustomed eyes of Judy, that that young virgin pounces at him with something more than the ardour of affection and so shakes him up and pats and pokes him in divers parts of his body, but particularly in that part which the science of self-defence would call his wind, that in his grievous distress he utters enforced sounds like a paviour's rammer.†
Chpt 25-27 (definition 1)
- Mr. Tulkinghorn merely utters an occasional sentence, as, "You are the best judge of your own interest, sergeant."†
Chpt 25-27 (definition 1)
- These he utters with an appearance of perfect indifference as he looks over the papers on his table and prepares to write a letter.†
Chpt 25-27 (definition 1)
- Miss Volumnia utters a little sharp scream.†
Chpt 28-30 (definition 1)
- Volumnia utters another little scream.†
Chpt 28-30 (definition 1)
- My Lady's lips move, but they utter nothing.†
Chpt 28-30 (definition 2)
- No. Words, sobs, and cries are but air, and air is so shut in and shut out throughout the house in town that sounds need be uttered trumpet-tongued indeed by my Lady in her chamber to carry any faint vibration to Sir Leicester's ears; and yet this cry is in the house, going upward from a wild figure on its knees.†
Chpt 28-30 (definition 1)
- No, he could see no such thing, even if that brave outside did not utterly put him away, and he were not looking beyond it and about it.†
Chpt 31-33 (definition 2)
- Having thus expressively uttered his sentiments, Mr. Squod, after waiting a little to ascertain if any further remark be expected of him, gets back by his usual series of movements to the target he has in hand and vigorously signifies through his former musical medium that he must and he will return to that ideal young lady.†
Chpt 34-36 (definition 1)
- Utterly confounded, Mr. George awhile stands looking at the knocker.†
Chpt 34-36 (definition 2)
- But here have Ada and I been perfectly forlorn and miserable; here has your friend Caddy been coming and going late and early; here has every one about the house been utterly lost and dejected; here has even poor Rick been writing—to ME too—in his anxiety for you!†
Chpt 34-36 (definition 2)
- These words she uttered with a suppressed cry of despair, more terrible in its sound than any shriek.†
Chpt 34-36 (definition 1)
- I explained, as nearly as I could then, or can recall now—for my agitation and distress throughout were so great that I scarcely understood myself, though every word that was uttered in the mother's voice, so unfamiliar and so melancholy to me, which in my childhood I had never learned to love and recognize, had never been sung to sleep with, had never heard a blessing from, had never had a hope inspired by, made an enduring impression on my memory—I say I explained, or tried to do it,…†
Chpt 34-36 (definition 1)
- What I say is, it was all very well and we got on very well while I was a boy, utterly regardless of this same suit; but as soon as I began to take an interest in it and to look into it, then it was quite another thing.†
Chpt 37-39 (definition 2)
- As to Sir Leicester, he conceives it utterly impossible that anything can be wanting, in any direction, by any one who has the good fortune to be received under that roof; and in a state of sublime satisfaction, he moves among the company, a magnificent refrigerator.†
Chpt 40-42 (definition 2)
- At no time did I dare to utter her name.†
Chpt 43-45 (definition 2)
- Sir Leicester, who has covered his face with his hands, uttering a single groan, requests him to pause for a moment.†
Chpt 52-54 (definition 1)
- Something frozen and fixed is upon his manner, over and above its usual shell of haughtiness, and Mr. Bucket soon detects an unusual slowness in his speech, with now and then a curious trouble in beginning, which occasions him to utter inarticulate sounds.†
Chpt 52-54 (definition 2)
- My Lady, you may have some proud or angry reasons for disdaining to utter something that you know; if so, pray, oh, pray, think of a faithful servant whose whole life has been passed in this family which she dearly loves, and relent, and help to clear my son!†
Chpt 55-57 (definition 2)
- I was cold, and I trembled violently, but not a word he uttered was lost.†
Chpt 64-65 (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (utter as in: utter a complaint) say something or make a sound with the voice
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(2) (utter as in: utter stupidity) complete or total (used as an intensifier--typically when stressing how bad something is)