All 5 Uses of
allude
in
The Power and the Glory by Cooke
- Consadine's a poor provider," she said plaintively, alluding to her absent husband.†
Chpt 1
- "Was that what you were doing," she asked, alluding to some small item of the operating, "when you stopped by the side of the road, Sunday night, when Miss Lydia was with you?"†
Chpt 7
- A "concrete form" she imagined might allude to the fact that Miss Sessions had a better figure than she.†
Chpt 8 *
- I was not alluding to social classes.†
Chpt 9
- Individuals who work in cotton mills, and are not adults, are never alluded to as children.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
-
(allude) to make an indirect referenceeditor's notes: The expression, no allusion can mean "not even an indirect reference"; i.e., neither a direct nor an indirect reference to something.