All 3 Uses of
apprise
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- 'One of the domestics, in a very kind manner, executed the baron's order in the course of half an hour or so, and Von Koeldwethout being apprised thereof, strode to the vaulted room, the walls of which, being of dark shining wood, gleamed in the light of the blazing logs which were piled upon the hearth.†
Chpt 6
- And, in this place, it may be as well to apprise the reader, that Miss Fanny Squeers was in her three-and-twentieth year.†
Chpt 9 *
- Quiet being again restored, a delicious half-hour—so Frank called it, in the course of subsequent conversation with Tim Linkinwater as they were walking home—was spent in conversation, and Tim's watch at length apprising him that it was high time to depart, the ladies were left alone, though not without many offers on the part of Frank to remain until Nicholas arrived, no matter what hour of the night it might be, if, after the late neighbourly irruption, they entertained the least…†
Chpt 49
Definition:
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(apprise) inform (somebody) of something