All 3 Uses of
convey
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- …laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flame-like as theirs; and now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid jade-faced painters of Tokio who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.†
Chpt 1
- To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume; there was a real joy in that—perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims….†
Chpt 3
- This bud of love by summer's ripening breath May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet— she spoke the words as though they conveyed no meaning to her.†
Chpt 7 *
Definition:
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(convey as in: convey her thoughts) communicate or express