All 5 Uses of
emigrate
in
Mrs. Dalloway
- …positively, undeniably, domineeringly brushing aside all this unnecessary trifling (Peter Walsh and his affairs) upon that subject which engaged her attention, and not merely her attention, but that fibre which was the ramrod of her soul, that essential part of her without which Millicent Bruton would not have been Millicent Bruton; that project for emigrating young people of both sexes born of respectable parents and setting them up with a fair prospect of doing well in Canada.†
- Emigration was not to others the obvious remedy, the sublime conception.†
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- …descended, of direct impulses, downright feelings, and little introspective power (broad and simple—why could not every one be broad and simple? she asked) feels rise within her, once youth is past, and must eject upon some object—it may be Emigration, it may be Emancipation; but whatever it be, this object round which the essence of her soul is daily secreted, becomes inevitably prismatic, lustrous, half looking-glass, half precious stone; now carefully hidden in case people should…†
- Emigration had become, in short, largely Lady Bruton.†
- Richard didn't care a straw what became of Emigration; about that letter, whether the editor put it in or not.†
Definition:
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(emigrate) leave a country to live in another country