All 10 Uses of
subsequent
in
The Mill on the Floss
- That was a painful thought to Maggie, and she wished much that the subsequent history of the young man had not been left a blank.†
Chpt 1.4 *
- …a dyed silk frock made out of her aunt Glegg's, but the results had been such that Mrs. Tulliver was obliged to bury them in her maternal bosom; for Maggie, declaring that the frock smelt of nasty dye, had taken an opportunity of basting it together with the roast beef the first Sunday she wore it, and finding this scheme answer, she had subsequently pumped on the bonnet with its green ribbons, so as to give it a general resemblance to a sage cheese garnished with withered lettuces.†
Chpt 1.7
- Whence Mr. Stelling concluded that Tom's brain, being peculiarly impervious to etymology and demonstrations, was peculiarly in need of being ploughed and harrowed by these patent implements; it was his favorite metaphor, that the classics and geometry constituted that culture of the mind which prepared it for the reception of any subsequent crop.†
Chpt 2.1
- In fact, that lady did presently descend from her room, in double wonder at the noise and the subsequent cessation of Philip's music.†
Chpt 2.4
- They kissed each other, and Lucy went away, possessed of a confidence which had a strong influence over her subsequent impressions.†
Chpt 6.3
- The early days of an acquaintance almost always have this importance for us, and fill up a larger space in our memory than longer subsequent periods, which have been less filled with discovery and new impressions.†
Chpt 6.6
- He thought it was becoming a sort of monomania with him, to want that long look from Maggie; and he was racking his invention continually to find out some means by which he could have it without its appearing singular and entailing subsequent embarrassment.†
Chpt 6.6
- His subsequent silence made her suspect there had been some special reason for them in his mind.†
Chpt 6.7
- The ladies who had commodities of their own to sell, and did not want dressing-gowns, saw at once the frivolity and bad taste of this masculine preference for goods which any tailor could furnish; and it is possible that the emphatic notice of various kinds which was drawn toward Miss Tulliver on this public occasion, threw a very strong and unmistakable light on her subsequent conduct in many minds then present.†
Chpt 6.9
- Not that anger, on account of spurned beauty can dwell in the celestial breasts of charitable ladies, but rather that the errors of persons who have once been much admired necessarily take a deeper tinge from the mere force of contrast; and also, that to-day Maggie's conspicuous position, for the first time, made evident certain characteristics which were subsequently felt to have an explanatory bearing.†
Chpt 6.9
Definition:
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(subsequent) following something else