All 48 Uses of
consequence
in
Little Dorrit
- When a wife's relations interpose against a husband who is a gentleman, who is proud, and who must govern, the consequences are inimical to peace.†
Chpt 1.1 (definition 1)
- They knew that, and their machinations were conducted in secret; consequently, Madame Rigaud and I were brought into frequent and unfortunate collision.
Chpt 1.1 (definition 1)consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- Consequently when he came up the staircase to bed, candle in hand, he came full upon her.
Chpt 1.4 (definition 1)
- To get her brother out of the prison; out of the succession to Mrs Bangham in executing commissions, and out of the slang interchange with very doubtful companions consequent upon both; was her hardest task.†
Chpt 1.7 (definition 1)
- It required some judgment to do it without butting the inner hall-door open, and in the consequent mental confusion and physical darkness slipping down the kitchen stairs.†
Chpt 1.10 (definition 1)
- …where a remarkably fine grey gelding, worth, at the lowest figure, seventy-five guineas (not taking into account the value of the shot he had been made to swallow for the improvement of his form), was to be parted with for a twenty-pound note, in consequence of his having run away last week with Mrs Captain Barbary of Cheltenham, who wasn't up to a horse of his courage, and who, in mere spite, insisted on selling him for that ridiculous sum: or, in other words, on giving him away.†
Chpt 1.12 (definition 1)
- The servant-maid had ticked the two words 'Mr Clennam' so softly that she had not been heard; and he consequently stood, within the door she had closed, unnoticed.
Chpt 1.13 (definition 1)consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- Consequently, we will only knock twice, and not very loud; and if we cannot wake them so, we must walk about till day.'
Chpt 1.14 (definition 1)
- Mistress Affery looked on at Little Dorrit taking off her homely bonnet in the hall, and at Mr Flintwinch scraping his jaws and contemplating her in silence, as expecting some wonderful consequence to ensue which would frighten her out of her five wits or blow them all three to pieces.†
Chpt 1.15 (definition 1)
- 'Consequently, Lord Decimus is his great uncle.'
Chpt 1.17 (definition 1)consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- I pointed out to your sister the plain state of the case; the impossibility of the Society in which we moved recognising the Society in which she moved—though charming, I have no doubt; the immense disadvantage at which she would consequently place the family she had so high an opinion of, upon which we should find ourselves compelled to look down with contempt, and from which (socially speaking) we should feel obliged to recoil with abhorrence.
Chpt 1.20 (definition 1)
- This sum, Mr Clennam would be happy to learn, he had, through the promptitude of several friends who had a lively confidence in his probity, already raised, with the exception of a trifling balance of one pound seventeen and fourpence; the loan of which balance, for the period of one month, would be fraught with the usual beneficent consequences.†
Chpt 1.22 (definition 1)
- Under the latter great wrong, a few suffered dreadfully—particularly on Sundays, when they had for some time expected the earth to open and swallow the public up; but which desirable event had not yet occurred, in consequence of some reprehensible laxity in the arrangements of the Universe.†
Chpt 1.26 (definition 1)
- The unexpected consequences of this notification suggested to the dismayed Mr Meagles for the first time that some hundreds of young persons must be leaving their homes without reflection every day; for shoals of wrong young people came down to Twickenham, who, not finding themselves received with enthusiasm, generally demanded compensation by way of damages, in addition to coach-hire there and back.†
Chpt 1.28 (definition 1)
- In consequence of this, madam, some necessary business that I should otherwise have transacted here within the regular hours (necessary business because money-business), still remains to be done.†
Chpt 1.29 (definition 1)
- Not to obtrude doctrine upon you,' she looked at the rigid pile of hard pale books before her, '(for you go your own way, and the consequences are on your own head), I will say this much: that I shape my course by pilots, strictly by proved and tried pilots, under whom I cannot be shipwrecked—can not be—and that if I were unmindful of the admonition conveyed in those three letters, I should not be half as chastened as I am.'†
Chpt 1.30 (definition 1)
- Some pitying acquaintance—chance acquaintance very often—has warmed up his weakness with a treat of beer, and the consequence will be the lapse of a longer time than usual before he shall pass again.†
Chpt 1.31 (definition 1)
- And this is what I mean and so I don't deceive you, and consequently which is to stand out is to entreat of you, and therefore why not do it?'
Chpt 1.31 (definition 1)consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- It would be idle to disguise, consequently, that there is a wide difference between the position of your son and mine.
Chpt 1.33 (definition 1)
- And as they know the signs of the weather tolerably well, they don't give much employment to the dogs—who have consequently died out rather—though this house of entertainment is conveniently situated for themselves.
Chpt 2.1 (definition 1)
- Mrs General consequently found her means so much diminished, that, but for the perfect regulation of her mind, she might have felt disposed to question the accuracy of that portion of the late service which had declared that the commissary could take nothing away with him.
Chpt 2.2 (definition 1)
- Consequently,' said the other gentleman, retiring on his main position, 'why Row?'
Chpt 2.3 (definition 1)
- 'I don't know, after all,' said the lady, gracefully advancing a step or two towards Mr Dorrit, 'but that I had better say myself, at once, that I assured this good man I took all the consequences on myself of occupying one of a stranger's suite of rooms during his absence, for just as much (or as little) time as I could dine in.†
Chpt 2.3 (definition 1)
- Therefore, my dear, he—ha—he laid his parental injunctions upon her, to remember that she was a lady, who had now to conduct herself with—hum—a proper pride, and to preserve the rank of a lady; and consequently he requested her to abstain from doing what would occasion—ha—unpleasant and derogatory remarks.
Chpt 2.3 (definition 1)consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- 'But you are aware, my dear madam,' said Mr Dorrit, 'that my daughters had the misfortune to lose their lamented mother when they were very young; and that, in consequence of my not having been until lately the recognised heir to my property, they have lived with me as a comparatively poor, though always proud, gentleman, in—ha hum—retirement!'†
Chpt 2.5 (definition 1)
- Sparkler is a very good fellow on the whole, though rather a bore on one subject, in consequence of being tremendously smitten with a certain young lady.
Chpt 2.5 (definition 1)consequence = result
- My poor fellow has been accustomed to that sort of thing, and of course you knew it, and were prepared for the consequences.†
Chpt 2.8 (definition 1)
- I myself always clearly foresaw the consequences, and am not surprised.
Chpt 2.8 (definition 1) *consequences = results
- I feel a little hurt when I hear references made to consequences having been foreseen, and to its being too late now, and so forth.'†
Chpt 2.8 (definition 1)
- 'In consequence of which,' said Mrs Tickit, 'when I quivered my eyes and saw her actual form and figure looking in at the gate, I let them close again without so much as starting, for that actual form and figure came so pat to the time when it belonged to the house as much as mine or your own, that I never thought at the moment of its having gone away.'
Chpt 2.9 (definition 1)consequence = result
- …white mice with them most humane, and is she really in that favoured land with nothing but blue about her and dying gladiators and Belvederes though Mr F. himself did not believe for his objection when in spirits was that the images could not be true there being no medium between expensive quantities of linen badly got up and all in creases and none whatever, which certainly does not seem probable though perhaps in consequence of the extremes of rich and poor which may account for it.'†
Chpt 2.9 (definition 1)
- But for the timely return of Flora, to find him in this difficult situation, further consequences might have ensued.†
Chpt 2.9 (definition 1)
- But Mr Tite Barnacle was a buttoned-up man, and consequently a weighty one.
Chpt 2.12 (definition 1)consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- That she knew she was at times a wretched temper; that she knew she made herself hateful; that when she made herself hateful, nothing would do her half the good as being told so; but that, being afflicted with a flat sister, she never WAS told so, and the consequence resulted that she was absolutely tempted and goaded into making herself disagreeable.†
Chpt 2.14 (definition 1)
- That he has somehow or other, and how is of no consequence, attained a very good position, no one can deny.
Chpt 2.14 (definition 2) *consequence = importance
- In the lull consequent on the departure—in that first vacuity which ensues on every separation, foreshadowing the great separation that is always overhanging all mankind—Arthur stood at his desk, looking dreamily out at a gleam of sun.†
Chpt 2.22 (definition 1)
- 'Not that it is of consequence,' said Fanny.
Chpt 2.24 (definition 2)consequence = importance
- 'Not,' assented Mr Merdle, after having examined the cornice of all that part of the room which was within his range: 'not that it is of any consequence.'
Chpt 2.24 (definition 2)
- Mr Merdle's default left a Banquo's chair at the table; but, if he had been there, he would have merely made the difference of Banquo in it, and consequently he was no loss.
Chpt 2.25 (definition 1)consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- In consequence, he came down, looking rather wild.
Chpt 2.25 (definition 1)consequence = result
- 'I must take the consequences of what I have done,' said Clennam.†
Chpt 2.26 (definition 1)
- I name one week from this day, for a last final visit on my part; when you will unconditionally accept it or reject it, with its train of consequences.†
Chpt 2.28 (definition 1)
- When the first faintness consequent on having moved about had left him, he subsided into his former state.†
Chpt 2.29 (definition 1)
- Was I, too, not visited with consequences of the original offence in which I had no complicity?†
Chpt 2.30 (definition 1)
- After staring at this phantom in return, in silent awe, Mr Pancks threw down his shears, and fled for a place of hiding, where he might lie sheltered from the consequences of his crime.†
Chpt 2.32 (definition 1)
- And whom else, as a consequence of that meeting, should Little Dorrit find waiting for herself, when, a good two or three hours afterwards, she went out?
Chpt 2.34 (definition 1)consequence = result
- With the aid of its content, a newspaper, and some skimming of the cream of the pie-stock, Flora got through the remainder of the day in perfect good humour; though occasionally embarrassed by the consequences of an idle rumour which circulated among the credulous infants of the neighbourhood, to the effect that an old lady had sold herself to the pie-shop to be made up, and was then sitting in the pie-shop parlour, declining to complete her contract.†
Chpt 2.34 (definition 1)
- It affects the whole machine, and failure is the consequence.
Chpt 2.34 (definition 1)consequence = result
Definitions:
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(1) (consequence as in: a direct consequence of) a result of something (often an undesired side effect)
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(2) (consequence as in: of little consequence) importance or relevance