All 20 Uses
allude
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The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
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- He exchanged greetings with Mr. Osmond, to whom he had been introduced the day before and who, after he came in, sat blandly apart and silent, as if repudiating competence in the subjects of allusion now probable.†
Chpt 28allusion = an indirect reference
- I do not allude to the impulse it received as she gazed at the Pyramids in the course of an excursion from Cairo, or as she stood among the broken columns of the Acropolis and fixed her eyes upon the point designated to her as the Strait of Salamis; deep and memorable as these emotions had remained.†
Chpt 31allude = to make an indirect reference
- And on this the aunt and the niece went to breakfast, where Mrs. Touchett, as good as her word, made no allusion to Gilbert Osmond.†
Chpt 33 *allusion = an indirect reference
- Nevertheless, one morning, he made an abrupt allusion to it.†
Chpt 35
- But she was now reassured; she could see he only wished to live with her on good terms, that she was to understand he had forgiven her and was incapable of the bad taste of making pointed allusions.†
Chpt 38allusions = indirect references
- Lord Warburton of course spoke of the past, but he spoke of it without implications; he even went so far as to allude to their former meeting in Rome as a very jolly time.†
Chpt 38allude = to make an indirect reference
- These two were gentlemen of a race which is not distinguished by the absence of reserve, and they had travelled together from London to Rome without an allusion to matters that were uppermost in the mind of each.†
Chpt 39allusion = an indirect reference
- This was one of the allusions he had not hitherto found occasion to make.†
Chpt 39allusions = indirect references
- It was in this manner that he had formed the harmless habit of alluding to Miss Osmond.†
Chpt 43alluding = making an indirect reference
- She took for granted that he was always ready for some allusion to Mrs. Osmond; she had done so when they met in Paris, six weeks after his arrival in Europe, and she had repeated the assumption with every successive opportunity.†
Chpt 44allusion = an indirect reference
- He had no wish whatever to allude to Mrs. Osmond; he was NOT always thinking of her; he was perfectly sure of that.†
Chpt 44allude = to make an indirect reference
- It was the first time she had alluded to the need for help, and the words shook her cousin with their violence.†
Chpt 45alluded = indirectly referenced
- At the end of four days he alluded to his absence.†
Chpt 46
- Osmond appeared to take but a moderate interest in the proposal that they should go and stay with him and in his allusion to the success Pansy might extract from their visit.†
Chpt 46allusion = an indirect reference
- I merely speak of certain facts, and if the allusion's an injury to you the fault's not mine.†
Chpt 46
- Neither, after the first allusions, did the two men expatiate upon Mrs. Osmond—a theme in which Goodwood perceived as many dangers as Ralph.†
Chpt 47allusions = indirect references
- He made no allusion to his term being near, to the probability that he should not outlast the summer.†
Chpt 48allusion = an indirect reference
- It had become her habit to be so careful as to what she said to him that, strange as it may appear, she hesitated, for several minutes after he had come in, to allude to his daughter's sudden departure: she spoke of it only after they were seated at table.†
Chpt 50allude = to make an indirect reference
- She looked at her young friend from head to foot, but not harshly nor defiantly; with a cold gentleness rather, and an absence of any air of allusion to their last meeting.†
Chpt 52allusion = an indirect reference
- And later, in a large dusky parlour in Wimpole Street—to do her justice there had been dinner enough—she asked those questions to which she had alluded at the station.†
Chpt 53alluded = 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)