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convey her thoughts
Definition
communicate or express
- Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me.Adventure IV — The Boscombe Valley Mystery (28% in)
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- I have a confused memory, too, of having been lifted and conveyed somewhere.Adventure IX — The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb (86% in)
- It will end in my being conveyed into the house.Adventure I — A Scandal in Bohemia (63% in)
- It was one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City to the north and west.Adventure II — The Red-Headed League (59% in)
- It is not necessary that I should prolong a narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly playing with a dangerous pet.Adventure VIII — The Adventure of the Speckled Band (93% in)
- How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a very plain tale.Adventure IX — The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb (98% in)
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