All 7 Uses of
bound
in
Heart of Darkness
- The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide.†
Chpt 1 *
- It had borne all the ships whose names are like jewels flashing in the night of time, from the Golden Hind returning with her round flanks full of treasure, to be visited by the Queen's Highness and thus pass out of the gigantic tale, to the Erebus and Terror, bound on other conquests—and that never returned.†
Chpt 1
- In the steady buzz of flies the homeward-bound agent was lying flushed and insensible; the other, bent over his books, was making correct entries of perfectly correct transactions; and fifty feet below the doorstep I could see the still tree-tops of the grove of death.†
Chpt 1
- 'By the simple exercise of our will we can exert a power for good practically unbounded,' &c.†
Chpt 2
- This was the unbounded power of eloquence—of words—of burning noble words.†
Chpt 2 *
- After all, that was only a savage sight, while I seemed at one bound to have been transported into some lightless region of subtle horrors, where pure, uncomplicated savagery was a positive relief, being something that had a right to exist—obviously—in the sunshine.†
Chpt 3
- This alone, I was convinced, had driven him out to the edge of the forest, to the bush, towards the gleam of fires, the throb of drums, the drone of weird incantations; this alone had beguiled his unlawful soul beyond the bounds of permitted aspirations.†
Chpt 3
Definitions:
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(bound as in: out of bounds) a boundary or limit
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(bound as in: south-bound lanes) traveling in a particular direction or to a specific location