All 8 Uses of
manifest
in
The House of Mirth
- It may be that they had an inkling of the sentiments in which she had been brought up, for none of them manifested a very lively desire for her company; indeed, the question threatened to remain unsolved till Mrs. Peniston with a sigh announced: "I'll try her for a year."†
Chpt 1.3
- Mere display left her with a sense of superior distinction; but she felt an affinity to all the subtler manifestations of wealth.†
Chpt 1.4 *
- Mr. Gryce was new to such manifestations; he wondered rather nervously if she were delicate, having far-reaching fears about the future of his progeny.†
Chpt 1.6
- Miss Farish's heart was a fountain of tender illusions, Miss Stepney's a precise register of facts as manifested in their relation to herself.†
Chpt 1.11
- The burden of offence lying manifestly with Mrs. Dorset, this conjecture seemed on the face of it gratuitously unkind; but Selden knew that in the most one-sided matrimonial quarrel there are generally counter-charges to be brought, and that they are brought with the greater audacity where the original grievance is so emphatic.†
Chpt 2.3
- Such embarrassment as was shown was on Mrs. Trenor's side, and manifested itself in the mingling of exaggerated warmth with imperceptible reservations.†
Chpt 2.4
- She had never even tried to please him—he had been drawn to her in spite of her manifest disdain.†
Chpt 2.5
- It was long after seven o'clock, and the light and odours proceeding from the basement made it manifest that the boarding-house dinner had begun.†
Chpt 2.13
Definition:
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(manifest as in: manifest destiny) obvious; or to make obvious; or to show or demonstrate