All 13 Uses of
indulge
in
Jude the Obscure
- Having seen the school-master depart, they were summing up particulars of the event, and indulging in predictions of his future.†
Part 1 *
- They were accompanied by a carter, a second man, and a boy, who now kicked a large stone behind one of the wheels, and allowed the panting animals to have a long rest, while those in charge took a flagon off the load and indulged in a drink round.†
Part 1
- The lights were promptly extinguished, and till they fell asleep the girls indulged in conjectures about Sue, and wondered what games she had carried on in London and at Christminster before she came here, some of the more restless ones getting out of bed and looking from the mullioned windows at the vast west front of the cathedral opposite, and the spire rising behind it.†
Part 3
- A glance at the place and its accessories was almost enough to reveal that the schoolmaster's plans and dreams so long indulged in had been abandoned for some new dream with which neither the Church nor literature had much in common.†
Part 3
- After breakfast they went out on an errand together moved by a mutual thought that it was the last opportunity they would have of indulging in unceremonious companionship.†
Part 3
- Having indulged in this wild hope he went upstairs, and looked out of the window, and pictured her through the evening journey to London, whither she and Phillotson had gone for their holiday; their rattling along through the damp night to their hotel, under the same sky of ribbed cloud as that he beheld, through which the moon showed its position rather than its shape, and one or two of the larger stars made themselves visible as faint nebulae only.†
Part 3
- Now that the high window-sill was between them, so that he could not get at her, she seemed not to mind indulging in a frankness she had feared at close quarters.†
Part 4
- The woman opened the cover now and then, whereupon the kitten would put out its head, and indulge in playful antics.†
Part 5
- It was a last resource—a small thing to return to after my move upwards, and my long indulged hopes—a returning to zero, with all its humiliations.†
Part 5
- We went about loving each other too much—indulging ourselves to utter selfishness with each other!†
Part 6
- To indulge one's instinctive and uncontrolled sense of justice and right, was not, he had found, permitted with impunity in an old civilization like ours.†
Part 6
- Jude, like the rest of the company, bore on his face the signs of how deeply he had been indulging.†
Part 6
- Or is it that you are humbugging yourself, as so many women do about these things; and don't actually believe what you pretend to, and only are indulging in the luxury of the emotion raised by an affected belief?"†
Part 6
Definition:
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(indulge) to give into a desire or enjoy something -- especially in excess of what is thought good--such as a desire to eat too much cake, or be too lazy
or:
to allow or help someone to get their way or enjoy something -- especially something that (probably because of excess) is not considered to be good or proper