All 9 Uses of
deed
in
Wuthering Heights
- 'Well, Mrs. Dean, it will be a charitable deed to tell me something of my neighbours: I feel I shall not rest if I go to bed; so be good enough to sit and chat an hour.'†
Chpt 4deed = a notable achievement
- It hurt me to think the master should be made uncomfortable by his own good deed.†
Chpt 5
- Honest people don't hide their deeds.†
Chpt 10deeds = notable achievements
- But it's a deed to be reserved for a forlorn hope; I'd not take Linton by surprise with it.†
Chpt 11deed = a notable achievement
- And you both come to bewail the deed to me, as if you were the people to be pitied!†
Chpt 15
- That is the most diabolical deed that ever you did.†
Chpt 15
- Miss Cathy — conversant with no bad deeds except her own slight acts of disobedience, injustice, and passion, arising from hot temper and thoughtlessness, and repented of on the day they were committed — was amazed at the blackness of spirit that could brood on and cover revenge for years, and deliberately prosecute its plans without a visitation of remorse.†
Chpt 21deeds = notable achievements
- 'But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.'†
Chpt 22 *
- 'A letter from your old acquaintance, the housekeeper at the Grange,' I answered; annoyed at her exposing my kind deed, and fearful lest it should be imagined a missive of my own.†
Chpt 31deed = a notable achievement
Definitions:
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(1)
(deed as in: signed the deed) a legal document indicating ownership of propertyThis is often in reference to a trust deed which transfers legal title of property to a trustee. Frequently, the trustee is a bank and title is entrusted to the bank until a loan is paid off.
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(2)
(deed as in: did a good deed) a notable achievement