All 21 Uses of
deliberate
in
Lord Jim
- But the whole was re-written deliberately.†
Chpt A.N.
- He wanted to go on talking for truth's sake, perhaps for his own sake also; and while his utterance was deliberate, his mind positively flew round and round the serried circle of facts that had surged up all about him to cut him off from the rest of his kind: it was like a creature that, finding itself imprisoned within an enclosure of high stakes, dashes round and round, distracted in the night, trying to find a weak spot, a crevice, a place to scale, some opening through which it may…†
Chpt 4
- The sound of his own truthful statements confirmed his deliberate opinion that speech was of no use to him any longer.†
Chpt 4
- That's all right," he pronounced with an air of deliberating with himself upon the truth of this statement—"that's all right.†
Chpt 6 *
- He sat down and drank deliberately some coffee, emptying the small cup to the last drop.†
Chpt 7
- "No, really—do you think I've been done to that extent?" he inquired very earnest and deliberate.†
Chpt 7
- 'He raised his hand deliberately to his face, and made picking motions with his fingers as though he had been bothered with cobwebs, and afterwards he looked into the open palm for quite half a second before he blurted out— ' "I had jumped …."†
Chpt 9
- Do you mean to say you had been deliberating with yourself whether you would die?†
Chpt 10
- And he had been deliberating upon death—confound him!†
Chpt 11
- Once he calmly exclaimed, "Ah, bah!" under his breath, and when I had finished he pursed his lips in a deliberate way and emitted a sort of sorrowful whistle.†
Chpt 13
- Drew up, I say—no other expression can describe the steady deliberation of the act—and at last was disclosed completely to me.†
Chpt 13
- He went to the door in a hurry, paused with his head down, and came back, stepping deliberately.†
Chpt 17
- He was tall and loose-jointed; his slight stoop, together with an innocent smile, made him appear benevolently ready to lend you his ear; his long arms with pale big hands had rare deliberate gestures of a pointing out, demonstrating kind.†
Chpt 19
- But, barring such interruptions, the deliberations upon Jim's fate went on night and day.†
Chpt 25
- For all that, there was nothing of a cripple about him: on the contrary, all his ponderous movements were like manifestations of a mighty deliberate force.†
Chpt 26
- He was of a silent disposition; a firm glance, an ironic smile, a courteous deliberation of manner seemed to hint at great reserves of intelligence and power.†
Chpt 26
- During one of our interviews he deliberately allowed me to get a glimpse of this secret ambition.†
Chpt 28
- He held his shot, he says, deliberately.†
Chpt 31
- He picked it up and, laying it aside, turned to Marlow's message, ran swiftly over the opening lines, and, checking himself, thereafter read on deliberately, like one approaching with slow feet and alert eyes the glimpse of an undiscovered country.†
Chpt 36
- Those unexpressed thoughts guided the opinions of the chief men of the town, who elected to assemble in Jim's fort for deliberation upon the emergency, as if expecting to find wisdom and courage in the dwelling of the absent white man.†
Chpt 39
- Doramin, struggling to keep his feet, made with his two supporters a swaying, tottering group; his little eyes stared with an expression of mad pain, of rage, with a ferocious glitter, which the bystanders noticed; and then, while Jim stood stiffened and with bared head in the light of torches, looking him straight in the face, he clung heavily with his left arm round the neck of a bowed youth, and lifting deliberately his right, shot his son's friend through the chest.†
Chpt 45
Definition:
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(deliberate as in: need to deliberate) to think about or discuss -- especially with great care