All 6 Uses of
convey
in
Hard Times
- Not until the light porter announced that her nocturnal sweetbread was ready, did Mrs. Sparsit arouse herself from her reverie, and convey her dense black eyebrows — by that time creased with meditation, as if they needed ironing out-up-stairs.†
Chpt 2.1
- Not,' said Mrs. Sparsit, with a lofty sense of giving strict evidence, 'that I would convey any imputation on his moral character.†
Chpt 2.8
- Father, chance then threw into my way a new acquaintance; a man such as I had had no experience of; used to the world; light, polished, easy; making no pretences; avowing the low estimate of everything, that I was half afraid to form in secret; conveying to me almost immediately, though I don't know how or by what degrees, that he understood me, and read my thoughts.†
Chpt 2.12
- May I be permitted to inquire, if you are charged to convey that information to me in those hopeless words, by the lady of whom we speak?'†
Chpt 3.2 *
- With these words, Mr. Bounderby extended his right hand to the weeping lady, and escorted her to the conveyance in question, shedding many plaintive sneezes by the way.†
Chpt 3.3
- But they got through the Act with great self-possession; and Mr. Sleary, saving for the first instant, conveyed no more expression into his locomotive eye than into his fixed one.†
Chpt 3.7
Definition:
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(convey as in: convey her thoughts) communicate or express