All 17 Uses of
dwell
in
Mansfield Park
- There, Mrs. Grant, you see how he dwells on one word, and only look at his smile.
Chpt 4dwells = focuses (keeps attention)
- And Edmund, silenced, was obliged to acknowledge that the charm of acting might well carry fascination to the mind of genius; and with the ingenuity of love, to dwell more on the obliging, accommodating purport of the message than on anything else.
Chpt 13dwell = focus (let attention stay)
- …as he looked with inquiring earnestness at his daughters and Edmund, dwelling particularly on the latter,
Chpt 19dwelling = letting attention stay (on something)
- Angry as she was with Edmund for adhering to his own notions, and acting on them in defiance of her (and she had been so angry that they had hardly parted friends at the ball), she could not help thinking of him continually when absent, dwelling on his merit and affection, and longing again for the almost daily meetings they lately had.
Chpt 29
- As soon as her eagerness could rest in silence, he was as happy to tell as she could be to listen; and a conversation followed almost as deeply interesting to her as to himself, though he had in fact nothing to relate but his own sensations, nothing to dwell on but Fanny's charms.
Chpt 30dwell = keep talking about
- …but her aunt was soon quarrelling with her; and when she found how much and how unpleasantly her having only walked out without her aunt's knowledge could be dwelt on, she felt all the reason she had to bless the kindness which saved her from the same spirit of reproach, exerted on a more momentous subject.
Chpt 32dwelt = excessively focused
- This was a prospect to be dwelt on with a fondness that could be but half acknowledged.
Chpt 37dwelt = focused
- When he had really resolved on any measure, he could always carry it through; and now by dint of long talking on the subject, explaining and dwelling on the duty of Fanny's sometimes seeing her family, he did induce his wife to let her go; obtaining it rather from submission, however, than conviction, for Lady Bertram was convinced of very little more than that Sir Thomas thought Fanny ought to go, and therefore that she must.
Chpt 37dwelling = letting attention stay (on something)
- I have to inform you, my dearest Fanny, that Henry has been down to Portsmouth to see you; that he had a delightful walk with you to the dockyard last Saturday, and one still more to be dwelt on the next day, on the ramparts; when the balmy air, the sparkling sea, and your sweet looks and conversation were altogether in the most delicious harmony, and afforded sensations which are to raise ecstasy even in retrospect.
Chpt 43dwelt = talked about for a long time
- What Fanny told her of former times dwelt more on her mind than the pages of Goldsmith; and she paid her sister the compliment of preferring her style to that of any printed author.
Chpt 43dwelt = lingered (or was an area of focus)
- Susan, who had an innate taste for the genteel and well-appointed, was eager to hear, and Fanny could not but indulge herself in dwelling on so beloved a theme.
Chpt 43dwelling = letting attention stay (on something)
- She could just find selfishness enough to wonder whether Edmund had written to Miss Crawford before this summons came, but no sentiment dwelt long with her that was not purely affectionate and disinterestedly anxious.
Chpt 44dwelt = lingered (lasted)
- It was so long since Fanny had had any letter from her, that she had some reason to think lightly of the friendship which had been so dwelt on.
Chpt 45dwelt = talked about for a long time
- Julia's elopement could affect her comparatively but little; she was amazed and shocked; but it could not occupy her, could not dwell on her mind.
Chpt 46dwell = let attention stay on for a prolonged period
- I cannot recall all her words. I would not dwell upon them if I could.
Chpt 47dwell = focus (let attention stay)
- …all this together most grievously convinced me that I had never understood her before, and that, as far as related to mind, it had been the creature of my own imagination, not Miss Crawford, that I had been too apt to dwell on for many months past.
Chpt 47dwell = think excessively about
- Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Chpt 48 *dwell = talk excessively (about something)
Definition:
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(dwell as in: Don't dwell on it.) to think, communicate, or let attention stay on (or return to) something for a prolonged period