All 3 Uses of
convention
in
The Call of the Canyon
- …stalk standing on high with fluted head; the narrow gorges, perpendicularly walled in red, where the constricted brook plunged in amber and white cascades over fall after fall, tumbling, rushing, singing its water melody—these all held singular appeal for Carley as aspects of the wild land, fascinating for the moment, symbolic of the lonely red man and his forbears, and by their raw contrast making more necessary and desirable and elevating the comforts and conventions of civilization.†
Chpt 3 *
- Before she had gone West she might have had many of the conventional modern ideas about women and marriage.†
Chpt 9 *
- Carley had a visitor one morning earlier than the usual or conventional time for calls.†
Chpt 10
Definitions:
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(convention as in: conventional behavior) something regarded as normal or typical
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(convention as in: teacher's convention) a large conference or meeting