All 5 Uses of
allude
in
Selected Tales, by Poe
- It might have been, too, that in these eyes of my beloved lay the secret to which Lord Verulam alludes.†
Scene 1 *alludes = makes an indirect reference
- She spoke again, and now more frequently and pertinaciously, of the sounds—of the slight sounds—and of the unusual motions among the tapestries, to which she had formerly alluded.†
Scene 1alluded = indirectly referenced
- In speaking of his intelligence, my wife, who at heart was not a little tinctured with superstition, made frequent allusion to the ancient popular notion, which regarded all black cats as witches in disguise.†
Scene 2allusion = an indirect reference
- They must have been, and were, in the notes, as well as in the words of his wild fantasias (for he not unfrequently accompanied himself with rhymed verbal improvisations), the result of that intense mental collectedness and concentration to which I have previously alluded as observable only in particular moments of the highest artificial excitement.†
Scene 3alluded = indirectly referenced
- But in that bitter tirade upon Chantilly, which appeared in yesterday's 'Musée,' the satirist, making some disgraceful allusions to the cobbler s change of name upon assuming the buskin, quoted a Latin line about which we have often conversed.†
Scene 4allusions = indirect references
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.