All 10 Uses
convey
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Ivanhoe
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- The word suited the author's purpose in two material respects,—for, first, it had an ancient English sound; and secondly, it conveyed no indication whatever of the nature of the story.†
Chpt Intr. *conveyed = communicated or expressed
- Indeed, it seemed that so humble a conveyance as a mule, in however good case, and however well broken to a pleasant and accommodating amble, was only used by the gallant monk for travelling on the road.
Chpt 2 *conveyance = means of transport
- It was in vain that Cedric's cupbearer looked around for his young master—he saw the bloody spot on which he had lately sunk down, but himself he saw no longer; it seemed as if the fairies had conveyed him from the spot.†
Chpt 18conveyed = transported
- But to give their conversation in the original would convey but little information to the modern reader, for whose benefit we beg to offer the following translation: "The curse of St Withold upon these infernal porkers!" said the swine-herd, after blowing his horn obstreperously, to collect together the scattered herd of swine, which, answering his call with notes equally melodious, made, however, no haste to remove themselves from the luxurious banquet of beech-mast and acorns on which they had fattened, or to forsake the marshy banks of the rivulet, where several of them, half plunged in mud, lay stretched at their ease, altogether regardless of the voice of their keeper.†
Chpt 1
- The name of Ivanhoe was no sooner pronounced than it flew from mouth to mouth, with all the celerity with which eagerness could convey and curiosity receive it.†
Chpt 13
- He ordered, however, Oswald to keep an eye upon him; and directed that officer, with two of his serfs, to convey Ivanhoe to Ashby as soon as the crowd had dispersed.†
Chpt 18
- "We shall do better," said he, "to leave them two of our attendants and two horses to convey them back to the next village.†
Chpt 19
- —a meet conveyance for the crusader, whose doughty arm was to reconquer the Holy Sepulchre!†
Chpt 23
- On arriving at Torquilstone, while the Knight Templar and the lord of that castle were each intent upon their own schemes, the one on the Jew's treasure, and the other on his daughter, De Bracy's squires conveyed Ivanhoe, still under the name of a wounded comrade, to a distant apartment.†
Chpt 28
- And hurrying his daughter in his turn, he conducted her from the lists, and by means of conveyance which he had provided, transported her safely to the house of the Rabbi Nathan.†
Chpt 44
Definitions:
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(1)
(convey as in: convey her thoughts) communicate or express
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(2)
(convey as in: convey title to the property) to give or transfer -- especially legal title
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(3)
(convey as in: convey her safely to) transportToday, this sense of convey is seldom seen outside of historic literature.
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(4)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely (and then probably in classic literature), conveyance can refer to a carriage or other means of transportation.