All 4 Uses of
essence
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- Sometimes they say, "Oh, how very serious you have made me look, Miss La Creevy!" and at others, "La, Miss La Creevy, how very smirking!" when the very essence of a good portrait is, that it must be either serious or smirking, or it's no portrait at all.'†
Chpt 10
- Such is hope, Heaven's own gift to struggling mortals; pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things, both good and bad; as universal as death, and more infectious than disease!†
Chpt 19 *
- It is the conductor which communicates to the inhabitants of regions beyond its limit, the shock of pride of birth and rank, which it has not within itself, but derives from a fountain-head beyond; or, like the ligament which unites the Siamese twins, it contains something of the life and essence of two distinct bodies, and yet belongs to neither.†
Chpt 21
- 'Size!' repeated Mr Crummles; 'why, it's the essence of the combat that there should be a foot or two between them.†
Chpt 22
Definition:
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(essence) the defining or most important quality of something
or:
a extract that concentrates important qualities of something such as smell or taste