All 5 Uses of
bound
in
Ethan Frome
- He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface; but there was nothing unfriendly in his silence.†
Chpt Open
- The musicians hurried to their instruments, the dancers-some already half-muffled for departure-fell into line down each side of the room, the older spectators slipped back to their chairs, and the lively young man, after diving about here and there in the throng, drew forth a girl who had already wound a cherry-coloured "fascinator" about her head, and, leading her up to the end of the floor, whirled her down its length to the bounding tune of a Virginia reel.†
Chpt 1 *
- Zeena took the view that Mattie was bound to make the best of Starkfield since she hadn't any other place to go to; but this did not strike Ethan as conclusive.†
Chpt 3
- It seemed to Ethan that his heart was bound with cords which an unseen hand was tightening with every tick of the clock.†
Chpt 9 *
- The sled started with a bound, and they flew on through the dusk, gathering smoothness and speed as they went, with the hollow night opening out below them and the air singing by like an organ.†
Chpt 9
Definitions:
-
(bound as in: The deer bound across the trail.) to leap or jump
-
(bound as in: south-bound lanes) traveling in a particular direction or to a specific location