All 21 Uses of
allude
in
The Prairie, by Cooper
- The man, who had manifested so hostile an intention, appeared to understand the other's allusion, and suffered himself to be diverted from his object.†
Chpt 1 *allusion = an indirect reference
- The allusion is to this custom, in which the hunted beast is turned from one to another.†
Chpt 2
- The old man sunk into the grass while he was speaking, as if the final separation to which he alluded, had, in his own case, actually occurred, and, at the next instant, a band of wild horsemen whirled by them, with the noiseless rapidity in which it might be imagined a troop of spectres would pass.†
Chpt 3alluded = indirectly referenced
- Bison is the better word; and I would suggest the necessity of adopting it in future, when you shall have occasion to allude to the species.†
Chpt 7allude = to make an indirect reference
- "Speak plainly, old stranger," said the squatter, striking the butt of his rifle heavily on the earth, his dull capacity finding no pleasure in a discourse that was conducted in so obscure allusions; "I have asked a simple question, and one I know well that you can answer."†
Chpt 7allusions = indirect references
- On this elevation the signs of man, to which the allusion just made applies, were to be found.†
Chpt 8allusion = an indirect reference
- [*] [*] It is scarcely necessary to tell the reader, that the animal so often alluded to in this book, and which is vulgarly called the buffaloe, is in truth the bison; hence so many contretemps between the men of the prairies and the men of science†
Chpt 9alluded = indirectly referenced
- The colour of Ellen's cheek changed as suddenly as the squatter's piece had flashed on the occasion to which he alluded, the burning glow suffusing her features, until it even mantled her throat with its fine healthful tinge.†
Chpt 11
- Ishmael, too sluggish to pursue the subject, or content with the pointed allusion he had just made, rose from his seat on the rock, and stretching his heavy frame, like a well-fed and fattened ox, he announced his intention to sleep.†
Chpt 11allusion = an indirect reference
- He began to show his relics again, and was even heard to allude once more to the delicate and nearly forgotten subject of modern miracles.†
Chpt 15allude = to make an indirect reference
- He commented on the state of the trade in peltries, spoke of the good or ill success of many white hunters, whom he had either encountered, or heard named, and even alluded to the steady march, which the nation of his great father, as he cautiously termed the government of the States, was making towards the hunting-grounds of his tribe.†
Chpt 18alluded = indirectly referenced
- By the time Paul and the trapper saw fit to terminate the fresh bursts of merriment, which the continued abstraction of their learned companion did not fail to excite, he commenced breathing again, as if the suspended action of his lungs had been renewed by the application of a pair of artificial bellows, and was heard to make use of the ever afterwards proscribed term, on that solitary occasion, to which we have just alluded.†
Chpt 19
- The crafty Mahtoree, who saw that his free-thinking was not likely to produce a favourable impression on the old man, instantly changed his ground, by alluding to the more immediate subject of their interview.†
Chpt 20alluding = making an indirect reference
- [*] I should think—" [*] They who have read the preceding books, in which, the trapper appears as a hunter and a scout, will readily understand the allusions†
Chpt 22allusions = indirect references
- An eye less practised than that of the trapper might have failed in discovering the gentle elevation to which he alluded, and which looked on the surface of the meadow like a growth a little taller than common.†
Chpt 23alluded = indirectly referenced
- That deeply seated love of vengeance, which formed so prominent a feature in their characters, was gratified by his metaphorical allusions, and the chief himself augured favourably of the success of his own schemes, by the number of supporters, who manifested themselves to be in favour of the counsels of his friend.†
Chpt 27allusions = indirect references
- A low murmur was heard, expressive of admiration of the services to which he thus artfully alluded.†
Chpt 27alluded = indirectly referenced
- Time was not given to reflect on the merits, or rather the demerits, of most of the different individuals to whom he alluded, in consequence of the rapid manner in which he ran over their names; but so cunningly did he time his events, and so thrillingly did he make his appeals, aided as they were by the power of his deep-toned and stirring voice, that each of them struck an answering chord in the breast of some one of his auditors.†
Chpt 28
- It was not long before a look of ferocity and of revenge was to be seen seated on the grim visages of most of the warriors, and each new and crafty allusion to the policy of extinguishing their enemies, was followed by fresh and less restrained bursts of approbation.†
Chpt 28allusion = an indirect reference
- He commenced by alluding to the antiquity and renown of his own nation.†
Chpt 33alluding = making an indirect reference
- The heart of Middleton beat quick, as the young partisan[*] alluded to the charms of Inez, and for an instant he cast an impatient glance at his little line of artillerists; but the chief from that moment appeared to forget he had ever seen so fair a being.†
Chpt 33alluded = indirectly referenced
Definition:
to make an indirect reference
The expression, no allusion can mean "not even an indirect reference"; i.e., neither a direct nor an indirect reference to something.