All 14 Uses of
convention
in
Sister Carrie
- Her maidenly reserve, and a certain sense of what was conventional under the circumstances, called her to forestall and deny this familiarity, but the daring and magnetism of the individual, born of past experience and triumphs, prevailed.†
Chpt 1
- CONVENTION'S OWN TINDER-BOX—THE EYE THAT IS GREEN Hurstwood's residence on the North Side, near Lincoln Park, was a brick building of a very popular type then, a three-story affair with the first floor sunk a very little below the level of the street.†
Chpt 9
- Her knowledge of life extended to that little conventional round of society of which she was not—but longed to be—a member.†
Chpt 9 *
- He would visit the local resorts, or those near by in Wisconsin, and spend a few stiff, polished days strolling about conventional places doing conventional things.†
Chpt 9
- He would visit the local resorts, or those near by in Wisconsin, and spend a few stiff, polished days strolling about conventional places doing conventional things.†
Chpt 9
- It ran along by force of habit, by force of conventional opinion.†
Chpt 9
- Society possesses a conventional standard whereby it judges all things.†
Chpt 10
- It was only an average little conscience, habit, convention, in a confused way.†
Chpt 10
- Such trivialities, such praises of Wealth, such conventional expression of morals as sifted through this passive creature's mind, fell upon Carrie and for the while confused her.†
Chpt 11
- She was pretty, graceful, rich in the timidity Born of uncertainty, and with a something childlike in her Large eyes which captured the fancy of this starched and conventional poser among men.†
Chpt 11
- She loved to modulate her voice after the conventional manner of the distressed heroine, and repeat such pathetic fragments as appealed most to her sympathies.†
Chpt 16
- The common run of conventional, perfunctory notices of the doings of society, which she could scarcely refrain from scanning each day, had given her a distinct idea of the gorgeousness and luxury of this wonderful temple of gastronomy.†
Chpt 32
- She found there was no discrimination between one and the other of applicants, save as regards a conventional standard of prettiness and form.†
Chpt 38
- Convention to say: "You shall not better your situation save by honest labor."†
Chpt 47 *
Definitions:
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(convention as in: conventional behavior) something regarded as normal or typical
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(convention as in: teacher's convention) a large conference or meeting