8 uses
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Definition
a result of something (often an undesired side effect)
- They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me.Chapter 1 (56% in)
- A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say when he was a boy of eighteen, and as a natural consequence he always looks absolutely delightful.Chapter 1 (16% in)
- I have promised to dine at White's, but it is only with an old friend, so I can send him a wire to say that I am ill, or that I am prevented from coming in consequence of a subsequent engagement.Chapter 2 (91% in)
- Besides, I always deal with Dartmoor's tradesmen, and consequently they never bother me.Chapter 3 (11% in)
- The consequence is that he has nothing left for life but his prejudices, his principles, and his common-sense.Chapter 4 (77% in)
- Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.Chapter 4 (78% in)
- And, yet, who, that knew anything about Life, would surrender the chance of remaining always young, however fantastic that chance might be, or with what fateful consequences it might be fraught?Chapter 8 (94% in)
- There has not been a scandal in the neighbourhood since the time of Queen Elizabeth, and consequently they all fall asleep after dinner.Chapter 15 (16% in)
There are no more uses of "consequence" in The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version.
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