All 15 Uses
allude
in
The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
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- We thought at first that the sister mentioned might be the sister of the clerk; but the subsequent mention of a niece seems to prove that the allusion is to one of my aunts.†
Chpt 1 *allusion = an indirect reference
- She was not fond of the English style of life, and had three or four reasons for it to which she currently alluded; they bore upon minor points of that ancient order, but for Mrs. Touchett they amply justified non-residence.†
Chpt 3alluded = indirectly referenced
- But it is by no means certain that she did not feel it to be wrong that so little notice was taken of them and that her failure (really very gratuitous) to make herself important in the neighbourhood had not much to do with the acrimony of her allusions to her husband's adopted country.†
Chpt 7allusions = indirect references
- Lord Warburton was at a loss; he had not been made acquainted with Miss Stackpole's professional character and failed to catch her allusion.†
Chpt 14allusion = an indirect reference
- If I had known he wished to marry you I'd never have alluded to them.†
Chpt 15alluded = indirectly referenced
- If it's really to be the last—pardon my alluding to it, but you must often have thought of the possibility—I'm sorry that I shall not be at Gardencourt.†
Chpt 17alluding = making an indirect reference
- I don't know whether you know," he went on; "but I suppose there's no harm in my alluding to it at such an hour as this: there was some one wanted to marry Isabel the other day, and she wouldn't have him."†
Chpt 18
- "I'm afraid you've suffered much," she once found occasion to say to her friend in response to some allusion that had appeared to reach far.†
Chpt 19allusion = an indirect reference
- On which "I'm obliged to you," Madame Merle replied, "but I'm afraid your aunt imagines, or at least alludes to, no aberrations that the clock-face doesn't register."†
Chpt 19alludes = makes an indirect reference
- Madame Merle had alluded more than once to some undefined incongruity in her relations with Ralph Touchett; so Isabel took this occasion of asking her if they were not good friends.†
Chpt 19alluded = indirectly referenced
- She would wait in Paris till Isabel should arrive, Henrietta added; speaking quite as if Isabel were to start on her continental journey alone and making no allusion to Mrs. Touchett.†
Chpt 19allusion = an indirect reference
- This was the only allusion the visitor, in her great good taste, made for the present to her young friend's inheritance.†
Chpt 20
- Isabel continued to warn her good-humouredly; Lady Pensil's obliging brother was sometimes, on our heroine's lips, an object of irreverent and facetious allusion.†
Chpt 20
- The matter you allude to concerns three persons much stronger of purpose than yourself.†
Chpt 25allude = to make an indirect reference
- Madame Merle had said nothing to put her on her guard; she alluded no more pointedly to him than to the other gentlemen of Florence, native and foreign, who now arrived in considerable numbers to pay their respects to Miss Archer's aunt.†
Chpt 26alluded = indirectly referenced
Definitions:
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(1)
(allude) to make an indirect referenceThe expression, no allusion can mean "not even an indirect reference"; i.e., neither a direct nor an indirect reference to something.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)