All 19 Uses of
apparent
in
Wuthering Heights
- She was slender, and apparently scarcely past girlhood: an admirable form, and the most exquisite little face that I have ever had the pleasure of beholding; small features, very fair; flaxen ringlets, or rather golden, hanging loose on her delicate neck; and eyes, had they been agreeable in expression, that would have been irresistible: fortunately for my susceptible heart, the only sentiment they evinced hovered between scorn and a kind of desperation, singularly unnatural to be…†
Chpt 2
- I obeyed, so far as to quit the chamber; when, ignorant where the narrow lobbies led, I stood still, and was witness, involuntarily, to a piece of superstition on the part of my landlord which belied, oddly, his apparent sense.†
Chpt 3
- Then personal appearance sympathised with mental deterioration: he acquired a slouching gait and ignoble look; his naturally reserved disposition was exaggerated into an almost idiotic excess of unsociable moroseness; and he took a grim pleasure, apparently, in exciting the aversion rather than the esteem of his few acquaintance.†
Chpt 8
- Apparently taking up another subject, she recommenced in a short time.†
Chpt 9 *
- 'He is reformed in every respect, apparently: quite a Christian: offering the right hand of fellowship to his enemies all around!'†
Chpt 10
- She averted her face: he apparently put some question which she had no mind to answer.†
Chpt 11
- Its occupants had recommenced their angry discussion: Mrs. Linton, at least, was scolding with renewed vigour; Heathcliff had moved to the window, and hung his head, somewhat cowed by her violent rating apparently.†
Chpt 11
- He walked up and down, with his hands in his pockets, apparently quite forgetting my presence; and his abstraction was evidently so deep, and his whole aspect so misanthropical, that I shrank from disturbing him again.†
Chpt 13
- He sent a rapid glance through the half-open door of the chamber, and, ascertaining that what I stated was apparently true, delivered the house of his luckless presence.†
Chpt 15
- He exerted preterhuman self-denial in abstaining from finishing him completely; but getting out of breath, he finally desisted, and dragged the apparently inanimate body on to the settle.†
Chpt 17
- But, I thought in my mind, Hindley, with apparently the stronger head, has shown himself sadly the worse and the weaker man.†
Chpt 17
- Wuthering Heights and Mr. Heathcliff did not exist for her: she was a perfect recluse; and, apparently, perfectly contented.†
Chpt 18
- It gave Joseph satisfaction, apparently, to watch him go the worst lengths: he allowed that the lad was ruined: that his soul was abandoned to perdition; but then he reflected that Heathcliff must answer for it.†
Chpt 18
- He sighed and moaned like one under great suffering, and kept it up for a quarter of an hour; on purpose to distress his cousin apparently, for whenever he caught a stifled sob from her he put renewed pain and pathos into the inflexions of his voice.†
Chpt 23
- I could not picture a father treating a dying child as tyrannically and wickedly as I afterwards learned Heathcliff had treated him, to compel this apparent eagerness: his efforts redoubling the more imminently his avaricious and unfeeling plans were threatened with defeat by death.†
Chpt 25
- It is strange, Linton, that for the second time you have brought me here on purpose, apparently to distress us both, and for no reason besides!'†
Chpt 27
- I took particular notice of him this time; but then he does his best apparently to make the least of his advantages.†
Chpt 31
- Then he drew his hand over his eyes, stood a moment to collect himself apparently, and turning anew to Catherine, said, with assumed calmness — 'You must learn to avoid putting me in a passion, or I shall really murder you some time!†
Chpt 33
- And whatever it was, it communicated, apparently, both pleasure and pain in exquisite extremes: at least the anguished, yet raptured, expression of his countenance suggested that idea.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
-
(apparent) clear or obvious; or appearing as such but not necessarily so