All 17 Uses of
venerable
in
Bleak House
- He lived in a pretty house, formerly the parsonage house, with a lawn in front, a bright flower-garden at the side, and a wellstocked orchard and kitchen-garden in the rear, enclosed with a venerable wall that had of itself a ripened ruddy look.†
Chpt 16-18
- Chick, out of the profundity of his artfulness, preferring "veal and ham and French beans—and don't you forget the stuffing, Polly" (with an unearthly cock of his venerable eye), Mr. Guppy and Mr. Jobling give the like order.†
Chpt 19-21
- Under the venerable Mr. Smallweed's seat and guarded by his spindle legs is a drawer in his chair, reported to contain property to a fabulous amount.†
Chpt 19-21 *
- Beside him is a spare cushion with which he is always provided in order that he may have something to throw at the venerable partner of his respected age whenever she makes an allusion to money—a subject on which he is particularly sensitive.†
Chpt 19-21
- The only use you can put him to," says the venerable sage.†
Chpt 19-21
- A close observer might perhaps detect both in her eye and her brother's, when their venerable grandsire anticipates his being gone, some little impatience to know when he may be going, and some resentful opinion that it is time he went.†
Chpt 19-21
- Mr. George, who has been looking first at one of them and then at the other, as if he were demented, takes his venerable acquaintance by the throat on receiving this request, and dragging him upright in his chair as easily as if he were a doll, appears in two minds whether or no to shake all future power of cushioning out of him and shake him into his grave.†
Chpt 19-21
- Mr. George then descries, in the procession, the venerable Mr. Smallweed out for an airing, attended by his granddaughter Judy as body-guard.†
Chpt 25-27
- His closing exclamation is jerked out of the venerable gentleman by the suddenness with which Mr. Squod, like a genie, catches him up, chair and all, and deposits him on the hearth-stone.†
Chpt 25-27
- "You are so sprightly, Mr. George," returns the venerable grandfather.†
Chpt 25-27
- My dear, merely to know the rights of the fatal accident which has happened to the venerable party who has been—combusted.†
Chpt 31-33
- Inside the coach, and consequently not so manifest to the multitude, though sufficiently so to the two friends, for the coach stops almost at their feet, are the venerable Mr. Smallweed and Mrs. Smallweed, accompanied by their granddaughter Judy.†
Chpt 31-33
- And they prepare to bear the venerable burden to the Sol's Arms.†
Chpt 31-33
- In such a very hard manner and with eyes so particularly green that Mr. Bagnet's natural gravity is much deepened by the contemplation of that venerable man.†
Chpt 34-36
- I must either wrong my three dear girls or my venerable father, who is entirely dependent on me, in the Vale of Taunton; or some one.†
Chpt 49-51
- "Why, of course you wanted to get in," Mr. Bucket asserts with cheerfulness; "but for a old gentleman at your time of life—what I call truly venerable, mind you!†
Chpt 52-54
- In truth she is not a hard lady naturally, and the time has been when the sight of the venerable figure suing to her with such strong earnestness would have moved her to great compassion.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(venerable) respected (worthy of respect) -- typically because of age or position