All 11 Uses of
accompany
in
The House of Mirth
- She knew the symptoms at once, and was not surprised to be hailed by the high notes of a pretty woman, who entered the train accompanied by a maid, a bull-terrier, and a footman staggering under a load of bags and dressing-cases.†
Chpt 1.2
- Lily had hinted to Mr. Gryce that this neglect of religious observances was repugnant to her early traditions, and that during her visits to Bellomont she regularly accompanied Muriel and Hilda to church.†
Chpt 1.5
- For a long time Mr. Gryce and the omnibus had the gravel sweep to themselves; but, far from regretting this deplorable indifference on the part of the other guests, he found himself nourishing the hope that Miss Bart might be unaccompanied.†
Chpt 1.5
- Lady Cressida had evidently insisted on walking home, and the rest of the church-goers had thought it their duty to accompany her.†
Chpt 1.5
- Lily felt really virtuous as she dispensed the sum in sops to her tradesmen, and the fact that a fresh order accompanied each payment did not lessen her sense of disinterestedness.†
Chpt 1.8
- Miss Farish bent short-sightedly over the accompanying card.†
Chpt 1.8 *
- Miss Bart made an impatient movement, but suppressed the words which seemed about to accompany it.†
Chpt 1.8
- The words, and the movement which accompanied them, combined to startle Lily out of the state of tranced subservience into which she had insensibly slipped.†
Chpt 2.7
- They were succeeded by Mrs. Hatch's electric victoria, in which that lady reclined in the lonely splendour of a spring toilet obviously designed for company; and a moment or two later came Judy Trenor, accompanied by Lady Skiddaw, who had come over for her annual tarpon fishing and a dip into "the street."†
Chpt 2.11
- The cheque represented the full amount of Mrs. Peniston's legacy, and the letter accompanying it explained that the executors, having adjusted the business of the estate with less delay than they had expected, had decided to anticipate the date fixed for the payment of the bequests.†
Chpt 2.13
- She then wrote out a cheque for Trenor, and placing it, without an accompanying word, in an envelope inscribed with his name, laid the two letters side by side on her desk.†
Chpt 2.13
Definition:
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(accompany as in: accompany on the journey) to travel along with