All 9 Uses of
allude
in
The Turn of the Screw
- There were naturally things that in Flora's presence could pass between us only as prodigious and gratified looks, obscure and roundabout allusions.†
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- He never spoke of his school, never mentioned a comrade or a master; and I, for my part, was quite too much disgusted to allude to them.†
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- Never by the least allusion.†
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- This was so singularly the case that it had presumably much to do with the fact as to which, at the present day, I am at a loss for a different explanation: I allude to my unnatural composure on the subject of another school for Miles.†
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- NEVER, by a slip of the tongue, have they so much as alluded to either of their old friends,
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- NEVER, by a slip of the tongue, have they so much as alluded to either of their old friends, any more than Miles has alluded to his expulsion.†
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- Instead of gaily denouncing and caressing me, they made no allusion to my having failed them, and I was left, for the time, on perceiving that she too said nothing, to study Mrs. Grose's odd face.†
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- For not alluding to your leaving us?†
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- "No, though I waited and waited, I confess it didn't, and it was without a breach of the silence or so much as a faint allusion to his sister's condition and absence that we at last kissed for good night.†
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Definition:
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(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.