All 19 Uses of
allude
in
War and Peace
- "What is that?" asked the countess as if she did not know what the visitor alluded to, though she had already heard about the cause of Count Bezukhov's distress some fifteen times.†
Chpt 1alluded = indirectly referenced
- The German, Pahlen, has been sent to New York in America, to fetch the Frenchman, Moreau," he said, alluding to the invitation made that year to Moreau to enter the Russian service...."Wonderful!†
Chpt 1alluding = making an indirect reference
- Boris smiled, as if he understood what Prince Andrew was alluding to as something generally known.†
Chpt 3
- He was seated in the place of honor between two Alexanders—Bekleshev and Naryshkin—which was a significant allusion to the name of the sovereign.†
Chpt 4 *allusion = an indirect reference
- In it was the petition to the Emperor drawn up by the auditor, in which Denisov, without alluding to the offenses of the commissariat officials, simply asked for pardon.†
Chpt 5alluding = making an indirect reference
- "I should like to see the great man," he said, alluding to Napoleon, whom hitherto he, like everyone else, had always called Buonaparte.†
Chpt 5
- It was not accidentally, Natasha felt, that he alluded, when speaking of the highest aristocracy, to an ambassador's ball he had attended, and to invitations he had received from N.N. and S.S. All this time Natasha sat silent, glancing up at him from under her brows.†
Chpt 6alluded = indirectly referenced
- She sang him his favorite songs, showed him her album, making him write in it, did not allow him to allude to the past, letting it be understood how delightful was the present; and every day he went away in a fog, without having said what he meant to, and not knowing what he was doing or why he came, or how it would all end.†
Chpt 6allude = to make an indirect reference
- Vera, having noticed Prince Andrew's attentions to Natasha, decided that at a party, a real evening party, subtle allusions to the tender passion were absolutely necessary and, seizing a moment when Prince Andrew was alone, began a conversation with him about feelings in general and about her sister.†
Chpt 6allusions = indirect references
- Now you know, Count," she said to Pierre, "even our dear cousin Boris, who, between ourselves, was very far gone in the land of tenderness..." (alluding to a map of love much in vogue at that time).†
Chpt 6alluding = making an indirect reference
- To his former pretexts for irony a fresh one was now added—allusions to stepmothers and amiabilities to Mademoiselle Bourienne.†
Chpt 6allusions = indirect references
- The affianced couple, no longer alluding to trees that shed gloom and melancholy upon them, planned the arrangements of a splendid house in Petersburg, paid calls, and prepared everything for a brilliant wedding.†
Chpt 8alluding = making an indirect reference
- Understanding at once to whom she alluded, Prince Vasili said in a whisper: "I know for a fact that Kutuzov made it an absolute condition that the Tsarevich should not be with the army.†
Chpt 10alluded = indirectly referenced
- "And I'd have won on my Frenchy, your excellency," said Lavrushka from behind, alluding to his shabby cart horse, "only I didn't wish to mortify you."†
Chpt 10alluding = making an indirect reference
- The countess let no occasion slip of making humiliating or cruel allusions to Sonya.†
Chpt 12allusions = indirect references
- Not by a single word had Nicholas alluded to the fact that Prince Andrew's relations with Natasha might, if he recovered, be renewed, but Princess Mary saw by his face that he knew and thought of this.†
Chpt 12alluded = indirectly referenced
- The affair he had alluded to had happened a few days before—a fight between the prisoners and the French soldiers, in which Pierre had succeeded in pacifying his comrades.†
Chpt 13
- Both avoided any allusion to the future.†
Chpt 15allusion = an indirect reference
- In every word and gesture he saw allusions to his happiness.†
Chpt 15allusions = indirect references
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.