All 8 Uses of
vary
in
Bleak House
- Anything to vary this detestable monotony.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- The system which had addressed him in exactly the same manner as it had addressed hundreds of other boys, all varying in character and capacity, had enabled him to dash through his tasks, always with fair credit and often with distinction, but in a fitful, dazzling way that had confirmed his reliance on those very qualities in himself which it had been most desirable to direct and train.†
Chpt 16-18
- Submitting, however, with a good grace to the caution that we had shown to be so necessary, he contented himself with sitting down among us in his lightest spirits and talking as if his one unvarying purpose in life from childhood had been that one which now held possession of him.†
Chpt 16-18
- They vary in their number, sir.†
Chpt 22-24
- These remarks he offers with his unvarying politeness and deference when he addresses himself to his wife.†
Chpt 40-42
- This was his unvarying reply.†
Chpt 43-45
- I said, 'Now, my good man, however our business capacities may vary, we are all children of one great mother, Nature.†
Chpt 43-45
- Thinking of his varied fortunes within the last few weeks, and of his rustic boyhood, and of the two periods of his life so strangely brought together across the wide intermediate space; thinking of the murdered man whose image is fresh in his mind; thinking of the lady who has disappeared from these very rooms and the tokens of whose recent presence are all here; thinking of the master of the house upstairs and of the foreboding, "Who will tell him!" he looks here and looks there, and…†
Chpt 58-60
Definition:
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(vary) to be different, or to changeeditor's notes: Vary is often used to describe small differences or changes--especially about things of the same type. It would be more common to say "The weight of full-grown elephants varies depending upon diet and other factors," than to say "The weight of elephants varies from that of mice."