All 13 Uses
allude
in
Dubliners
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- Though I was angry with old Cotter for alluding to me as a child, I puzzled my head to extract meaning from his unfinished sentences.†
Chpt 1alluding = making an indirect reference
- At times he spoke as if he were simply alluding to some fact that everybody knew, and at times he lowered his voice and spoke mysteriously as if he were telling us something secret which he did not wish others to overhear.†
Chpt 2
- He had also been fortunate enough to secure some of the police contracts and in the end he had become rich enough to be alluded to in the Dublin newspapers as a merchant prince.†
Chpt 5alluded = indirectly referenced
- She had been made awkward by her not wishing to receive the news in too cavalier a fashion or to seem to have connived and Polly had been made awkward not merely because allusions of that kind always made her awkward but also because she did not wish it to be thought that in her wise innocence she had divined the intention behind her mother's tolerance.†
Chpt 7allusions = indirect references
- Suddenly he remembered the night when one of the music-hall artistes, a little blond Londoner, had made a rather free allusion to Polly.†
Chpt 7allusion = an indirect reference
- The English critics, perhaps, would recognise him as one of the Celtic school by reason of the melancholy tone of his poems; besides that, he would put in allusions.†
Chpt 8allusions = indirect references
- She alluded once or twice to her husband but her tone was not such as to make the allusion a warning.†
Chpt 11alluded = indirectly referenced
- She alluded once or twice to her husband but her tone was not such as to make the allusion a warning.†
Chpt 11allusion = an indirect reference
- They're Castle hacks....I don't say Hynes....No, damn it, I think he's a stroke above that....But there's a certain little nobleman with a cock-eye—you know the patriot I'm alluding to?†
Chpt 12alluding = making an indirect reference
- Mr. Hynes did not seem to remember at once the piece to which they were alluding, but, after reflecting a while, he said: "O, that thing is it....Sure, that's old now."†
Chpt 12
- He would say, alluding to Aunt Kate and Aunt Julia: "Ladies and Gentlemen, the generation which is now on the wane among us may have had its faults but for my part I think it had certain qualities of hospitality, of humour, of humanity, which the new and very serious and hypereducated generation that is growing up around us seems to me to lack."†
Chpt 15
- Aunt Kate turned to Mr. Browne, who was grinning at this allusion to his religion, and said hastily: "O, I don't question the pope's being right.†
Chpt 15allusion = an indirect reference
- "...what shall I call them?--the Three Graces of the Dublin musical world."
The table burst into applause and laughter at this allusion.Chpt 15 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(allude) to make an indirect referenceThe expression, no allusion can mean "not even an indirect reference"; i.e., neither a direct nor an indirect reference to something.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)