All 7 Uses of
grandeur
in
Northanger Abbey
- Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth; grandeur I detest: I would not settle in London for the universe.†
Chpt 15 *
- A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world; the chaise and four wheeled off with some grandeur, to be sure, but it was a heavy and troublesome business, and she could not easily forget its having stopped two hours at Petty France.†
Chpt 20
- She was struck, however, beyond her expectation, by the grandeur of the abbey, as she saw it for the first time from the lawn.†
Chpt 22
- They set forward; and, with a grandeur of air, a dignified step, which caught the eye, but could not shake the doubts of the well-read Catherine, he led the way across the hall, through the common drawing-room and one useless antechamber, into a room magnificent both in size and furniture—the real drawing-room, used only with company of consequence.†
Chpt 23
- She was as insignificant, and perhaps as portionless, as Isabella; and if the heir of the Tilney property had not grandeur and wealth enough in himself, at what point of interest were the demands of his younger brother to rest?†
Chpt 26
- A heroine in a hack post-chaise is such a blow upon sentiment, as no attempt at grandeur or pathos can withstand.†
Chpt 29
- The expectations of his friend Morland, therefore, from the first overrated, had ever since his introduction to Isabella been gradually increasing; and by merely adding twice as much for the grandeur of the moment, by doubling what he chose to think the amount of Mr. Morland's preferment, trebling his private fortune, bestowing a rich aunt, and sinking half the children, he was able to represent the whole family to the general in a most respectable light.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
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(grandeur) impressive magnificence -- usually on a grand (large) scale