All 12 Uses of
moreover
in
The Good Earth
- Moreover, who has heard of a pretty slave who was virgin in a wealthy house?†
Chpt 1 *
- He had, moreover, a great nose projecting beyond his cheeks like a prow beyond the sides of a ship and Wang Lung although frightened to take anything from his hand, was more frightened to refuse, seeing the man's strange eyes and fearful nose.†
Chpt 14
- Moreover, it was a shame to him when he was in a grain shop where grain was bought and sold again, that when a contract was written for so much and for so much of wheat or rice, he must say humbly to the haughty dealers in the town, "Sir, and will you read it for me, for I am too stupid."†
Chpt 17
- He was angry, moreover, that his uncle's wife ate of the rich foods that he had to buy for Lotus and that she grew fat and more oily than she had been, but he could say nothing for his uncle's wife was clever and she was courteous to him and flattered him with good words, and rose when he came into the MOM.†
Chpt 21
- Moreover, he took a dislike to his old teacher and would not in the mornings rise out of his bed to go to school unless Wang Lung bawled at him or even beat him, and then he went sullenly and sometimes he spent whole days idling about the streets of the town, and Wang Lung only knew it at night, when the younger boy said spitefully, "Elder Brother was not in school today."†
Chpt 22
- Moreover, how could a man live locked in a town and in a house in the town, and he would die if he were cut off from his land.†
Chpt 23
- There would surely come a bad year, moreover, and even the town could not withstand robbers, as it had not in the past when the great house fell.†
Chpt 23
- He decided, moreover, that he would early take the second lad out of school and he would apprentice him to a trade and not wait for the wildness of young manhood to catch him and make him a plague in the house as the older one had been.†
Chpt 25
- Moreover, he could not take his pleasure of Lotus, for when he went in to her to distract his mind from its despair over this long agony of dying, he could not forget O-lan, and even as he held Lotus, he loosed her, because of O-lan.†
Chpt 26
- Moreover, she was a goodly maid, fair enough, but not too fair so as to be vain over it.†
Chpt 26
- It is a shame, moreover, to ask guests to come through the great gates and through all that common swarm with their stinks and their noise, and with my brother wed and his children and mine to come we need those courts also.†
Chpt 30
- Moreover, it was a shame to the elder brother that the second brother knew all the money their father had and what was spent and the money passed through his hands, so that although Wang Lung received and dispensed all the moneys from his lands, still the second brother knew what it was and the elder did not, but must go and ask his father for this and that like a child.†
Chpt 32
Definition:
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(moreover) in addition to what has just been said