All 8 Uses of
convey
in
Around the World in 80 Days
- Chapter XI IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG SECURES A CURIOUS MEANS OF CONVEYANCE AT A FABULOUS PRICE
Chpt 11 *conveyance = transport
- "Sir Francis," said Mr. Fogg quietly, "we will, if you please, look about for some means of conveyance to Allahabad."
Chpt 11
- Happily he too had been looking about him, and, after a moment's hesitation, said, "Monsieur, I think I have found a means of conveyance."
Chpt 11
- Kiouni—this was the name of the beast—could doubtless travel rapidly for a long time, and, in default of any other means of conveyance, Mr. Fogg resolved to hire him.
Chpt 11
- Passepartout wandered, with his hands in his pockets, towards the Victoria port, gazing as he went at the curious palanquins and other modes of conveyance, and the groups of Chinese, Japanese, and Europeans who passed to and fro in the streets.
Chpt 19
- From his exalted position Passepartout observed with much curiosity the wide streets, the low, evenly ranged houses, the Anglo-Saxon Gothic churches, the great docks, the palatial wooden and brick warehouses, the numerous conveyances, omnibuses, horse-cars, and upon the side-walks, not only Americans and Europeans, but Chinese and Indians.
Chpt 25conveyances = carriages (means of transport)
- Dinner over, the coach which was to convey the passengers and their luggage to the station drew up to the door.
Chpt 25convey = transport
- To do this he had employed every means of conveyance—steamers, railways, carriages, yachts, trading-vessels, sledges, elephants.
Chpt 37
Definition:
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(convey as in: convey her safely to) transporteditor's notes: Today, this sense of convey is seldom seen outside of historic literature.