All 13 Uses
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Alias Grace
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- It's the only way with the hysterics, you may be sure Ma'am, said the Matron, we have had a great deal of experience with that kind of a fit, this one used to be prone to them but we never indulged her, we worked to correct it and we thought she had given it up, it might be her old trouble coming back, for despite what they said about it up there at Toronto she was a raving lunatic that time seven years ago, and you are lucky there was no scissors nor sharp things lying about.†
Chpt 3indulged = enjoyed to excess
- I was indulging myself, he thinks.†
Chpt 4 *indulging = enjoying to excess
- To speak plainly, her madness was a fraud and an imposture, adopted by her in order that she might indulge herself and be indulged, the strict regimen of the Penitentiary, where she had been placed as a just punishment for her atrocious crimes, not having been to her liking.†
Chpt 4indulge = enjoy to excess
- To speak plainly, her madness was a fraud and an imposture, adopted by her in order that she might indulge herself and be indulged, the strict regimen of the Penitentiary, where she had been placed as a just punishment for her atrocious crimes, not having been to her liking.†
Chpt 4indulged = enjoyed to excess
- I needn't tell you that many of his instructions were not followed, especially as to the smoking and drinking; but those indulging had to be sly about it.†
Chpt 5indulging = enjoying to excess
- We buried our faces against the quilts, and by the time she'd opened the door Mary was composed again, but I was face down with my shoulders heaving, and Mrs. Honey said, What is the matter, girls, and Mary stood up and said, Please Mrs. Honey, it's just that Grace is crying about her dead mother, and Mrs. Honey said Very well then, you may take her down to the kitchen for a cup of tea, but don't be too long about it, and she said that young girls were often weepy but Mary must not indulge me and let it get out of control.†
Chpt 6indulge = enjoy to excess
- I am afraid he was very much indulged, not least by himself.†
Chpt 6indulged = enjoyed to excess
- The birds were singing around me, but I reflected that the very birds were strangers to me, for I did not even know their names; and that seemed to me the saddest of all, and the tears began to roll down my cheeks; and I did not dry them, but indulged myself in weeping for several minutes.†
Chpt 8
- If his subthreshold consciousness must indulge in such exotic poses, it ought to be able to supply at least a silver chain.... He drinks the tea.†
Chpt 9indulge = enjoy to excess
- He must refuse to indulge such brain-sick fancies.†
Chpt 9
- She's never been anybody's mistress before, she has never stooped so low, indulged in such abasement; if her husband discovers them, what will become of her?†
Chpt 11indulged = enjoyed to excess
- She's suitably alarmed, yet there's an undertone of elation as well: she's getting ready to nurse him, to indulge herself in yet another role.†
Chpt 13indulge = enjoy to excess
- I have prevailed on Mr. Walsh to trim his beard somewhat and to indulge his pipe smoking only out of doors, and in time perhaps both of these things, the beard and the pipe too, will disappear altogether, but it's never a good idea to nag and push a man, as it only makes them the more obstinate.†
Chpt 15
Definitions:
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(1)
(indulge) to give in to a desire or allow someone to enjoy or experience something -- especially something pleasurable
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)