All 8 Uses of
bound
in
Washington Square
- She would have liked to have a lover, and to correspond with him under an assumed name in letters left at a shop; I am bound to say that her imagination never carried the intimacy farther than this.†
Chpt 2
- The walls were embellished with engravings swathed in pink gauze, and the tables ornamented with volumes of extracts from the poets, usually bound in black cloth stamped with florid designs in jaundiced gilt.†
Chpt 14
- Of course you are not bound to do it.†
Chpt 14 *
- Catherine made this reflexion, and six months earlier she would have felt bound to give him warning; but now she deemed herself absolved.†
Chpt 24
- It was devilish awkward, as he said, and he felt a lively animosity for Catherine's aunt, who, as he had now quite formed the habit of saying to himself, had dragged him into the mess and was bound in common charity to get him out of it.†
Chpt 29
- A sudden fear had come over her; it was like the solid conjunction of a dozen disembodied doubts, and her imagination, at a single bound, had traversed an enormous distance.†
Chpt 29
- There was an imperious brevity in the tone of this inquiry, against which Mrs. Penniman felt bound to protest; the information with which she had undertaken to supply her niece was, after all, a favour.†
Chpt 30
- To this Mrs. Almond more than once replied that if Catherine had got rid of her incongruous lover, she deserved the credit of it, and that to bring herself to her father's enlightened view of the matter must have cost her an effort that he was bound to appreciate.†
Chpt 32
Definition:
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(bound as in: south-bound lanes) traveling in a particular direction or to a specific location