All 3 Uses of
convey
in
Main Street
- It was too easy to go on making out conveyances and arguing ditching cases.†
Chpt 13
- If Kennicott were snatched from Gopher Prairie and instantly conveyed to a town leagues away, he would not realize it.†
Chpt 22 *
- No one knew that they were coming; no one met them; and because of the icy roads, the only conveyance at the station was the hotel 'bus, which they missed while Kennicott was giving his trunk-check to the station agent—the only person to welcome them.†
Chpt 34 *
Definitions:
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(convey as in: convey her safely to) transporteditor's notes: Today, this sense of convey is seldom seen outside of historic literature.
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(convey as in: convey her thoughts) communicate or express