All 12 Uses
allude
in
The American, by Henry James
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- He irritated our friend by the tone of his allusions to their native country, and Newman was at a loss to understand why the United States were not good enough for Mr. Tristram.†
Chpt 3allusions = indirect references
- She had an especial wish to know whether he had ever been in love—seriously, passionately—and, failing to gather any satisfaction from his allusions, she at last directly inquired.†
Chpt 3
- a devotee of something mysterious and sacred to which he occasionally alluded in terms more ecstatic even than those in which he spoke of the last pretty woman, and which was simply the beautiful though somewhat superannuated image of HONOR;†
Chpt 7alluded = indirectly referenced
- Bellegarde had been looking at him with quickened expectancy, and with the smile with which he had greeted Newman's allusion to his promised request.†
Chpt 8 *allusion = an indirect reference
- I do not know whether in renouncing the mysterious opportunity to which he alluded, Bellegarde felt that he was doing something very generous.†
Chpt 8alluded = indirectly referenced
- His manners seemed to indicate a fine, nervous dread that something disagreeable might happen if the atmosphere were not purified by allusions of a thoroughly superior cast.†
Chpt 12allusions = indirect references
- It is my mother's wish, and mine, that no such allusions should be made.†
Chpt 12
- She never alluded to her mother's domestic decrees; she never quoted the opinions of the marquis.†
Chpt 13alluded = indirectly referenced
- Newman listened sometimes with a certain harmless jealousy; he would have liked to divert some of her tender allusions to his own credit.†
Chpt 13allusions = indirect references
- I don't allude to the cafes glaces.†
Chpt 16allude = to make an indirect reference
- She has never alluded to those hard words I used about her.†
Chpt 20alluded = indirectly referenced
- He observed before long that she asked him no questions about their common friends; she made no allusion to the circumstances under which he had been presented to her.†
Chpt 25allusion = an indirect reference
Definitions:
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(1)
(allude) to make an indirect referenceThe expression, no allusion can mean "not even an indirect reference"; i.e., neither a direct nor an indirect reference to something.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)