All 6 Uses of
haggard
in
Bleak House
- Most of the shops lighted two hours before their time—as the gas seems to know, for it has a haggard and unwilling look.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- "I'm a-being froze," returned the boy hoarsely, with his haggard gaze wandering about me, "and then burnt up, and then froze, and then burnt up, ever so many times in a hour.†
Chpt 31-33
- "Why, I wouldn't pass another night there for any consideration that you could offer me," says Mr. Weevle, haggardly staring.†
Chpt 31-33
- So worn and haggard as he looked, even in the fullness of his handsome youth, leaning back in his chair and crushing the closely written sheet of paper in his hand!†
Chpt 43-45
- As the door chanced to be standing open, Mr. Woodcourt was in his presence for some moments without being perceived, and he told me that he never could forget the haggardness of his face and the dejection of his manner before he was aroused from his dream.†
Chpt 49-51
- Richard, more worn and haggard, haunted the court day after day, listlessly sat there the whole day long when he knew there was no remote chance of the suit being mentioned, and became one of the stock sights of the place.†
Chpt 61-63
Definition:
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(haggard) showing the wearing effects of overwork or suffering