All 34 Uses of
bound
in
Bleak House
- Miss Barbary, your sole relation (in fact that is, for I am bound to observe that in law you had none) being deceased and it naturally not being to be expected that Mrs. Rachael—†
Chpt 1-3
- When we went downstairs we found a mug with "A Present from Tunbridge Wells" on it lighted up in the staircase window with a floating wick, and a young woman, with a swelled face bound up in a flannel bandage blowing the fire of the drawing-room (now connected by an open door with Mrs. Jellyby's room) and choking dreadfully.†
Chpt 4-6
- She can open it on occasion and be busy and fluttered, but it is shut up now and lies on the breadth of Mrs. Rouncewell's iron-bound bosom in a majestic sleep.†
Chpt 7-9
- But these vague whisperings may arise from Mr. Snagsby's being in his way rather a meditative and poetical man, loving to walk in Staple Inn in the summer-time and to observe how countrified the sparrows and the leaves are, also to lounge about the Rolls Yard of a Sunday afternoon and to remark (if in good spirits) that there were old times once and that you'd find a stone coffin or two now under that chapel, he'll be bound, if you was to dig for it.†
Chpt 10-12
- Is made more imbecile by being constantly informed that Mrs. Green's son "was a law-writer his-self and knowed him better than anybody," which son of Mrs. Green's appears, on inquiry, to be at the present time aboard a vessel bound for China, three months out, but considered accessible by telegraph on application to the Lords of the Admiralty.†
Chpt 10-12
- I think—I mean, he told us—that he had been in practice three or four years and that if he could have hoped to contend through three or four more, he would not have made the voyage on which he was bound.†
Chpt 16-18
- How pleasant, then, to be bound to no particular chairs and tables, but to sport like a butterfly among all the furniture on hire, and to flit from rosewood to mahogany, and from mahogany to walnut, and from this shape to that, as the humour took one!†
Chpt 16-18
- With this farewell hint and pointing generally to the setting sun as a likely place to move on to, the constable bids his auditors good afternoon and makes the echoes of Cook's Court perform slow music for him as he walks away on the shady side, carrying his iron-bound hat in his hand for a little ventilation.†
Chpt 19-21
- He has exhausted his resources and is bound henceforward to the tree he has planted.†
Chpt 22-24
- Indeed there may be generally observed in him an unbending, unyielding, brass-bound air, as if he were himself the bassoon of the human orchestra.†
Chpt 25-27
- "I must beg you, my Lady," he says while doing so, "to remain a few moments, for this individual of whom I speak arrived this evening shortly before dinner and requested in a very becoming note"—Sir Leicester, with his habitual regard to truth, dwells upon it—"I am bound to say, in a very becoming and well-expressed note, the favour of a short interview with yourself and MYself on the subject of this young girl.†
Chpt 28-30
- Mrs. Piper, as in duty bound, is of the same opinion, holding that a private station is better than public applause, and thanking heaven for her own (and, by implication, Mrs. Perkins') respectability.†
Chpt 31-33
- But there are bounds to these things when an unoffending party is in question, and I will acknowledge to you, Tony, that I don't think your manner on the present occasion is hospitable or quite gentlemanly."†
Chpt 31-33 (definition 1)
- I was in this state when I first shrunk from the light as it twinkled on me once more, and knew with a boundless joy for which no words are rapturous enough that I should see again.†
Chpt 34-36 (definition 1) *
- "I am bound not to withhold from her that John Jarndyce answered my letter in his usual manner, addressing me as 'My dear Rick,' trying to argue me out of my opinions, and telling me that they should make no difference in him.†
Chpt 37-39
- Our dear Richard, sanguine, ardent, overleaping obstacles, bursting with poetry like a young bud, says to this highly respectable companion, 'I see a golden prospect before me; it's very bright, it's very beautiful, it's very joyous; here I go, bounding over the landscape to come at it!'†
Chpt 37-39 (definition 2)
- "And you, Caddy," said I, "you are always busy, I'll be bound?"†
Chpt 37-39
- "I am bound to confess," said Mr. Guppy, "that you express yourself, miss, with that good sense and right feeling for which I gave you credit.†
Chpt 37-39
- And I spoke in such terms as I was bound to speak of Kenge and Carboy's office, which stands high.†
Chpt 37-39
- She went leaping and bounding and tearing about that night like a dragon, and got out on the house-top, and roamed about up there for a fortnight, and then came tumbling down the chimney very thin.†
Chpt 37-39 (definition 2) *
- He told you himself, I'll be bound, my dear?"†
Chpt 43-45 *
- "Still I am bound to tell you," observes Allan after repeating his former assurance, "that the boy is deplorably low and reduced and that he may be—I do not say that he is—too far gone to recover."†
Chpt 46-48
- The iron gentleman, having said that he would do it, was bound to do it.†
Chpt 46-48
- Sir Leicester is bound to believe a pair of ears that have been handed down to him through such a family, or he really might have mistrusted their report of the iron gentleman's observations.†
Chpt 46-48
- Those occasions are kept with some marks of distinction, but they rarely overleap the bounds of happy returns and a pudding.†
Chpt 49-51 (definition 1)
- Ada's are bound up with mine; they can't be separated; Vholes works for both of us.†
Chpt 49-51
- In an arched room by himself, like a cellar upstairs, with walls so glaringly white that they made the massive iron window-bars and iron-bound door even more profoundly black than they were, we found the trooper standing in a corner.†
Chpt 52-54
- "Your ladyship may not be at first disposed to excuse this visit from one who has never been welcome to your ladyship"—which he don't complain of, for he is bound to confess that there never has been any particular reason on the face of things why he should be— "but I hope when I mention my motives to your ladyship you will not find fault with me," says Mr. Guppy.†
Chpt 55-57
- I regarded this as very treacherous on the part of Mr. Skimpole towards my guardian and as passing the usual bounds of his childish innocence.†
Chpt 55-57 (definition 1)
- "Bounds, my dear?" returned Mr. Bucket.†
Chpt 55-57 (definition 1)
- Bounds?†
Chpt 55-57 (definition 1)
- "From my childhood I have been," said I, "the object of the untiring goodness of the best of human beings, to whom I am so bound by every tie of attachment, gratitude, and love, that nothing I could do in the compass of a life could express the feelings of a single day."†
Chpt 61-63
- "Mr Bucket," said my guardian aloud, "whatever the worth of this paper may be to any one, my obligations are great to you; and if it be of any worth, I hold myself bound to see Mr. Smallweed remunerated accordingly."†
Chpt 61-63
- I am bound to confess that I cried; but I hope it was with pleasure, though I am not quite sure it was with pleasure.†
Chpt 64-65
Definitions:
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(1) (bound as in: out of bounds) a boundary or limit
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(2) (bound as in: The deer bound across the trail.) to leap or jump
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(bound as in: south-bound lanes) traveling in a particular direction or to a specific location