All 8 Uses of
consequence
in
The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
- It was doubtless in consequence of Mrs. Touchett's attitude, and of the injury it offered to habits consecrated by many charming seasons, that Madame Merle had, after this, chosen to pass many months in England, where her credit was quite unimpaired.†
Chpt 39
- They were a part, they were a kind of creation and consequence, of her husband's very presence.†
Chpt 42
- Pansy came back to Isabel with another rent in her skirt, which was the inevitable consequence of the first and which she displayed to Isabel with serious eyes.†
Chpt 43
- Pansy only gazed at her, evidently much puzzled; and Isabel, taking advantage of it, began to represent to her the wretched consequences of disobeying her father.†
Chpt 45
- It was not that it ever occurred to her that she might have married him; even after the consequences of her actual union had grown vivid to her that particular reflection, though she indulged in so many, had not had the assurance to present itself.†
Chpt 47
- Henrietta was not in his confidence, though he was in hers, and Isabel consequently received no side-light upon his state of mind.
Chpt 47 *consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- He had the air of a man who knows he has been the talk of Paris for a week and is full half a head taller in consequence, but who also has a painful suspicion that in spite of this increase of stature one or two persons still have the perversity to think him diminutive.†
Chpt 50
- Because I think we should accept the consequences of our actions, and what I value most in life is the honour of a thing!†
Chpt 51
Definition:
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(consequence as in: a direct consequence of) a result of something (often an undesired side effect)