All 27 Uses of
convey
in
Mansfield Park
- A week had passed in this way, and no suspicion of it conveyed by her quiet passive manner, when she was found one morning by her cousin Edmund, the youngest of the sons, sitting crying on the attic stairs.
Chpt 2 (definition 1)conveyed = communicated
- Fanny's feelings on the occasion were such as she believed herself incapable of expressing; but her countenance and a few artless words fully conveyed all their gratitude and delight, and her cousin began to find her an interesting object.
Chpt 2 (definition 1)conveyed = communicated or expressed
- Fanny soon learnt how unnecessary had been her fears of a removal; and her spontaneous, untaught felicity on the discovery, conveyed some consolation to Edmund for his disappointment in what he had expected to be so essentially serviceable to her.
Chpt 3 (definition 2)conveyed = carried
- It was a connexion exactly of the right sort—in the same county, and the same interest—and his most hearty concurrence was conveyed as soon as possible.
Chpt 4 (definition 1)conveyed = communicated
- I am to have it to-morrow; but how do you think it is to be conveyed?
Chpt 6 (definition 2)conveyed = transported
- However, I am to have my harp fetched to-morrow. Henry, who is good-nature itself, has offered to fetch it in his barouche. Will it not be honourably conveyed?
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- Mr. Crawford suggested the greater desirableness of some carriage which might convey more than two.
Chpt 9 (definition 2) *convey = carry
- Sir Thomas listened most politely, but found much to offend his ideas of decorum, and confirm his ill-opinion of Mr. Yates's habits of thinking, from the beginning to the end of the story; and when it was over, could give him no other assurance of sympathy than what a slight bow conveyed.
Chpt 19 (definition 1)conveyed = communicated or expressed
- Nothing could be objected to when it came under the discussion of the neighbourhood, except that the carriage which conveyed the bride and bridegroom and Julia from the church-door to Sotherton was the same chaise which Mr. Rushworth had used for a twelvemonth before.
Chpt 21 (definition 2)conveyed = carried
- I do not exactly know the distance, but when you get back to Portsmouth, if it is not very far off, you ought to go over and pay your respects to them; and I could send a little parcel by you that I want to get conveyed to your cousins.
Chpt 25 (definition 2)conveyed = transported
- He knows that human nature needs more lessons than a weekly sermon can convey; and that if he does not live among his parishioners, and prove himself, by constant attention, their well-wisher and friend, he does very little either for their good or his own.
Chpt 25 (definition 1)convey = communicate
- He had seen her eyes sparkle as she spoke of the dear friend's letter, which claimed a long visit from her in London, and of the kindness of Henry, in engaging to remain where he was till January, that he might convey her thither; he had heard her speak of the pleasure of such a journey with an animation which had "no" in every tone.
Chpt 26 (definition 2)convey = give a ride to
- To her, the handwriting itself, independent of anything it may convey, is a blessedness.
Chpt 27 (definition 1)convey = communicate
- "Pray, what is Henry going for?"
Fanny protested her ignorance as steadily as her embarrassment allowed.
"Well, then," replied Miss Crawford, laughing, "I must suppose it to be purely for the pleasure of conveying your brother, and of talking of you by the way."
Chpt 28 (definition 2)conveying = giving a ride to
- Having so satisfactorily settled the conviction her note would convey, she could not but be astonished to see Mr. Crawford, as she accidentally did, coming up to the house again, and at an hour as early as the day before.
Chpt 32 (definition 1)convey = communicate or express
- He was not intending, however, by such action, to be conveying to her that unqualified approbation and encouragement which her hopes drew from it.
Chpt 34 (definition 1)conveying = communicating or expressing
- Edmund saw it all, and saw Fanny so determined not to see it, as to make it clear that the voice was enough to convey the full meaning of the protestation; and such a quick consciousness of compliment, such a ready comprehension of a hint, he thought, was rather favourable than not.
Chpt 34 (definition 1)convey = communicate or express
- …and Mrs. Norris found that all her anxiety to save her brother-in-law's money was vain, and that in spite of her wishes and hints for a less expensive conveyance of Fanny, they were to travel post;
Chpt 37 (definition 2)conveyance = means of transport
- Fanny had indeed nothing to convey from aunt Norris, but a message to say she hoped that her god-daughter was a good girl, and learnt her book.
Chpt 38 (definition 2)convey = carry
- It was made, however, at last: a silver knife was bought for Betsey, and accepted with great delight, its newness giving it every advantage over the other that could be desired; Susan was established in the full possession of her own, Betsey handsomely declaring that now she had got one so much prettier herself, she should never want that again; and no reproach seemed conveyed to the equally satisfied mother, which Fanny had almost feared to be impossible.
Chpt 40 (definition 1)conveyed = communicated
- And how are you to be conveyed back again?
Chpt 42 (definition 2)conveyed = transported
- I have not time for writing much, but it would be out of place if I had, for this is to be a mere letter of business, penned for the purpose of conveying necessary information, which could not be delayed without risk of evil.
Chpt 43 (definition 1) *conveying = communicating or expressing
- The sufferings which Lady Bertram did not see had little power over her fancy; and she wrote very comfortably about agitation, and anxiety, and poor invalids, till Tom was actually conveyed to Mansfield, and her own eyes had beheld his altered appearance.
Chpt 44 (definition 2)conveyed = transported
- Tom's extreme impatience to be removed to Mansfield, and experience those comforts of home and family which had been little thought of in uninterrupted health, had probably induced his being conveyed thither too early, as a return of fever came on, and for a week he was in a more alarming state than ever.
Chpt 44 (definition 2)
- In proof, he repeats, and more eagerly, what he said at Portsmouth about our conveying you home, and I join him in it with all my soul.
Chpt 45 (definition 2)conveying = transporting
- Her representation of her cousin's state at this time was exactly according to her own belief of it, and such as she supposed would convey to the sanguine mind of her correspondent the hope of everything she was wishing for.
Chpt 45 (definition 1)convey = communicate
- As Fanny could not doubt that her answer was conveying a real disappointment, she was rather in expectation, from her knowledge of Miss Crawford's temper, of being urged again; and though no second letter arrived for the space of a week, she had still the same feeling when it did come.
Chpt 46 (definition 2)conveying = carrying
Definitions:
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(1) (convey as in: convey her thoughts) communicate or express
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(2) (convey as in: convey her safely to) transporteditor's notes: Today, this sense of convey is seldom seen outside of historic literature.