All 12 Uses of
allude
in
Jane Eyre
- It tarried, however: days and weeks passed: I had regained my normal state of health, but no new allusion was made to the subject over which I brooded.†
p. 33.2allusion = an indirect reference
- I have not yet alluded to the visits of Mr. Brocklehurst; and indeed that gentleman was from home during the greater part of the first month after my arrival; perhaps prolonging his stay with his friend the archdeacon: his absence was a relief to me.†
p. 73.1 *alluded = indirectly referenced
- It was his nature to be communicative; he liked to open to a mind unacquainted with the world glimpses of its scenes and ways (I do not mean its corrupt scenes and wicked ways, but such as derived their interest from the great scale on which they were acted, the strange novelty by which they were characterised); and I had a keen delight in receiving the new ideas he offered, in imagining the new pictures he portrayed, and following him in thought through the new regions he disclosed, never startled or troubled by one noxious allusion.†
p. 171.8allusion = an indirect reference
- — the allusion to me would make Mr. Rochester glance my way; and I involuntarily shrank farther into the shade: but he never turned his eyes.†
p. 205.2
- The Eastern allusion bit me again.†
p. 310.5
- Some say there is enjoyment in looking back to painful experience past; but at this day I can scarcely bear to review the times to which I allude: the moral degradation, blent with the physical suffering, form too distressing a recollection ever to be willingly dwelt on.†
p. 378.3allude = to make an indirect reference
- I could not hope to get a lodging under a roof, and sought it in the wood I have before alluded to.†
p. 378.9alluded = indirectly referenced
- I felt a burning glow mount to my face; for bitter and agitating recollections were awakened by the allusion to marriage.†
p. 397.9allusion = an indirect reference
- Throughout there was a strange bitterness; an absence of consolatory gentleness; stern allusions to Calvinistic doctrines — election, predestination, reprobation — were frequent; and each reference to these points sounded like a sentence pronounced for doom.†
p. 405.3allusions = indirect references
- I proved it to you in such terms as, I should have thought, would have prevented your ever again alluding to the plan.†
p. 476.5alluding = making an indirect reference
- Long since you ought to have crushed it: now you should blush to allude to it.†
p. 477.6allude = to make an indirect reference
- How St. John received the news, I don't know: he never answered the letter in which I communicated it: yet six months after he wrote to me, without, however, mentioning Mr. Rochester's name or alluding to my marriage.†
p. 518.5alluding = making an indirect reference
Definition:
to make an indirect reference
The expression, no allusion can mean "not even an indirect reference"; i.e., neither a direct nor an indirect reference to something.