All 4 Uses of
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- In other directions, the fields and sky were so much of one colour by the snow, that it was difficult in a hasty glance to tell whereabouts the horizon occurred; and in general there was here, too, that before-mentioned preternatural inversion of light and shade which attends the prospect when the garish brightness commonly in the sky is found on the earth, and the shades of earth are in the sky.†
Chpt 13-15
- And to that had destiny subjoined this reencounter to-night, which had, in Bathsheba's wild imagining, turned her companion's failure to success, her humiliation to triumph, her lucklessness to ascendency; it had thrown over herself a garish light of mockery, and set upon all things about her an ironical smile.†
Chpt 43-45
- Throughout the length of this narrow and irksome inclined plane not a sign of life was visible on this garish afternoon.†
Chpt 46-48 *
- "Are you going in?" said Bathsheba; and there came from within the church as from a prompter— I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(garish) tastelessly showy