All 19 Uses
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Lord Jim
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- He mumbled to himself; all I heard of it were a few words that sounded like "confounded steam!" and "infernal steam!"†
Chpt 4
- and loosens their tongues at the sight of me for their infernal confidences; as though, forsooth, I had no confidences to make to myself, as though—God help me!†
Chpt 5
- He looked as genuine as a new sovereign, but there was some infernal alloy in his metal.†
Chpt 5 *
- This infernal publicity is too shocking: there he sits while all these confounded natives, serangs, lascars, quartermasters, are giving evidence that's enough to burn a man to ashes with shame.†
Chpt 6
- 'Won't you save your own life—you infernal coward?' he sobs.†
Chpt 8
- He called me an infernal coward!†
Chpt 8
- The infernal thing!†
Chpt 9
- I use the simile advisedly, because from his relation I am forced to believe he had preserved through it all a strange illusion of passiveness, as though he had not acted but had suffered himself to be handled by the infernal powers who had selected him for the victim of their practical joke.†
Chpt 9
- The infernal joke was being crammed devilishly down his throat, but—look you—he was not going to admit of any sort of swallowing motion in his gullet.†
Chpt 9
- What's your infernal notion?†
Chpt 14
- There had been, as you know, a period of probation amongst infernal ship-chandlers, during which he had suffered and I had worried about—about—my trust—you may call it.†
Chpt 16
- Infernally fawning and familiar—and that sort of thing ...†
Chpt 18
- He wouldn't have had much chance if Sherif Ali had let his infernal crew loose at us and stampeded my lot.†
Chpt 26
- Got him the infernal pots back of course—and pacified all hands.†
Chpt 27
- Either bring your infernal crowd along or let us go out and starve in the open sea, by God!†
Chpt 41
- 'And what do you deserve,' I shouted at him, 'you that I find skulking here with your mouth full of your responsibility, of innocent lives, of your infernal duty?†
Chpt 41
- I am sick of my infernal luck.†
Chpt 41
- I won't ask you what scared you into this infernal hole, where you seem to have found pretty pickings.†
Chpt 41
- The infernal people here let loose at him from both banks without staying to ask questions.†
Chpt 42
Definitions:
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(1)
(infernal) very bad; or very annoying; or characteristic of hell or the underworld
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)