All 19 Uses
convey
in
The Remains of the Day
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- Accordingly, Sir David has requested that I convey to young Reginald the facts of life.†
Chpt 2m -convey = communicate or express
- Just convey the basic facts and be done with it.
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- Excuse me, sir, but I have a message to convey to you.†
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- But as it happens I have something to convey to you.†
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- In the main, I tried to convey to him some of the 'know-how', as he put it, involved in overseeing large events of the sort we used often to have.†
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- When I wrote to my new employer conveying my regrets at the situation, I received by reply from America instructions to recruit a new staff 'worthy of a grand old English house'.†
Chpt Prol.
- So it was that in indicating my reasons for preferring the West Country for my motoring, instead of leaving it at mentioning several of the alluring details as conveyed by Mrs Symons' volume, I made the error of declaring that a former housekeeper of Darlington Hall was resident in that region.†
Chpt Prol.
- Perhaps I will convey a better idea of the tone of those evenings if I say that regular visitors included the likes of Mr Harry Graham, valet-butler to Sir James Chambers, and Mr John Donalds, valet to Mr Sydney Dickenson.†
Chpt Prol.
- If I try, then, to describe to you what I believe made my father thus distinguished, I may in this way convey my idea of what 'dignity' is.†
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- Admittedly, she does not at any point in her letter state explicitly her desire to return; but that is the unmistakable message conveyed by the general nuance of many of the passages, imbued as they are with a deep nostalgia for her days at Darlington Hall.†
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- If it is necessary to convey a message, I would ask you to do so through a messenger.†
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- "Do I understand, sir," I said, "that you wish me to convey the information to the young gentleman?"†
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- I may, however, have difficulty finding the appropriate moment to convey such information.†
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- I was of course reminded of my mission regarding the young gentleman and it occurred to me that an outdoor setting, with the general proximity of nature, and in particular the example of the geese close at hand, would not be an unsuitable setting at all in which to convey the sort of message I was bearing.†
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- I would then be able to emerge and convey my message to him.†
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- As I recall, I had conveyed a plea to Miss Kenton for assistance — via a messenger, naturally — and had left M. Dupont sitting in the billiard room awaiting his nurse, when the first footman had come hurrying down the staircase in some distress to inform me that my father had been taken ill upstairs.†
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- In fact, as I was soon to discover, this was very close to being the case; I can only imagine that in the several minutes after I had first been shown up to this bedroom — while I was washing my hands and doing what I could to make good the damage inflicted upon my jacket and trouser turn-ups — Mr and Mrs Taylor had conveyed news of me to passers-by.†
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- I conveyed his lordship's message and asked him what refreshments I might bring him.†
Chpt 4a -
- I attempted to convey to her what a genial employer Mr Farraday is; and I described the changes to the house itself, the alterations and the dust-sheetings, as well as the present staffing arrangements.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(convey as in: convey her thoughts) communicate or express
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(2)
(convey as in: convey title to the property) to give or transfer -- especially legal title
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(3)
(convey as in: convey her safely to) transportToday, this sense of convey is seldom seen outside of historic literature.
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(4)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely (and then probably in classic literature), conveyance can refer to a carriage or other means of transportation.