All 11 Uses
indulge
in
The Return of the Native
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- A low laugh escaped her—the third utterance which the girl had indulged in tonight.†
Chpt 1indulged = enjoyed to excess
- This enabled her to indulge in reverie without seeming to do so: she might have been believed capable of sleeping without closing them up.†
Chpt 1indulge = enjoy to excess
- She indulged in a little laugh.†
Chpt 1indulged = enjoyed to excess
- They were merely indulging in the ordinary vivacious chat of relatives who have long been parted in person though not in soul.†
Chpt 2 *indulging = enjoying to excess
- Before many more surmises could be indulged in Yeobright had come near; and seeing the hair-cutting group he turned aside to join them.†
Chpt 3indulged = enjoyed to excess
- But as for Yeobright, when he looked from the heights on his way he could not help indulging in a barbarous satisfaction at observing that, in some of the attempts at reclamation from the waste, tillage, after holding on for a year or two, had receded again in despair, the ferns and furze-tufts stubbornly reasserting themselves.†
Chpt 3indulging = enjoying to excess
- Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.†
Chpt 3indulge = enjoy to excess
- How many of those impassioned but temporary embraces were destined to become perpetual was possibly the wonder of some of those who indulged in them, as well as of Eustacia who looked on.†
Chpt 4indulged = enjoyed to excess
- Wildeve had looked upon Venn's first attempt as a species of horse-play, which the reddleman had indulged in for want of knowing better; but now the boundary line was passed which divides the annoying from the perilous.†
Chpt 4
- Having indulged in this imaginary peregrination for some considerable interval, she became impressed with a sense of the intolerable slowness of time.†
Chpt 5
- Clym very gladly admitted her as a tenant, confining his own existence to two rooms at the top of the back staircase, where he lived on quietly, shut off from Thomasin and the three servants she had thought fit to indulge in now that she was a mistress of money, going his own ways, and thinking his own thoughts.†
Chpt 6indulge = enjoy to excess
Definitions:
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(1)
(indulge) to give in to a desire or allow someone to enjoy or experience something -- especially something pleasurable
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)