All 35 Uses of
allude
in
The Portrait of a Lady
- We thought at first that the sister mentioned might be the sister of the clerk; but the subsequent mention of a niece seems to prove that the allusion is to one of my aunts.†
Chpt 1
- She was not fond of the English style of life, and had three or four reasons for it to which she currently alluded; they bore upon minor points of that ancient order, but for Mrs. Touchett they amply justified non-residence.†
Chpt 3
- But it is by no means certain that she did not feel it to be wrong that so little notice was taken of them and that her failure (really very gratuitous) to make herself important in the neighbourhood had not much to do with the acrimony of her allusions to her husband's adopted country.†
Chpt 7
- Lord Warburton was at a loss; he had not been made acquainted with Miss Stackpole's professional character and failed to catch her allusion.†
Chpt 14 *
- If I had known he wished to marry you I'd never have alluded to them.†
Chpt 15
- If it's really to be the last—pardon my alluding to it, but you must often have thought of the possibility—I'm sorry that I shall not be at Gardencourt."†
Chpt 17
- I don't know whether you know," he went on; "but I suppose there's no harm in my alluding to it at such an hour as this: there was some one wanted to marry Isabel the other day, and she wouldn't have him."†
Chpt 18
- "I'm afraid you've suffered much," she once found occasion to say to her friend in response to some allusion that had appeared to reach far.†
Chpt 19
- On which "I'm obliged to you," Madame Merle replied, "but I'm afraid your aunt imagines, or at least alludes to, no aberrations that the clock-face doesn't register."†
Chpt 19
- Madame Merle had alluded more than once to some undefined incongruity in her relations with Ralph Touchett; so Isabel took this occasion of asking her if they were not good friends.†
Chpt 19
- She would wait in Paris till Isabel should arrive, Henrietta added; speaking quite as if Isabel were to start on her continental journey alone and making no allusion to Mrs. Touchett.†
Chpt 19
- This was the only allusion the visitor, in her great good taste, made for the present to her young friend's inheritance.†
Chpt 20
- Isabel continued to warn her good-humouredly; Lady Pensil's obliging brother was sometimes, on our heroine's lips, an object of irreverent and facetious allusion.†
Chpt 20
- The matter you allude to concerns three persons much stronger of purpose than yourself.†
Chpt 25
- Madame Merle had said nothing to put her on her guard; she alluded no more pointedly to him than to the other gentlemen of Florence, native and foreign, who now arrived in considerable numbers to pay their respects to Miss Archer's aunt.†
Chpt 26
- He exchanged greetings with Mr. Osmond, to whom he had been introduced the day before and who, after he came in, sat blandly apart and silent, as if repudiating competence in the subjects of allusion now probable.†
Chpt 28
- I do not allude to the impulse it received as she gazed at the Pyramids in the course of an excursion from Cairo, or as she stood among the broken columns of the Acropolis and fixed her eyes upon the point designated to her as the Strait of Salamis; deep and memorable as these emotions had remained.†
Chpt 31
- And on this the aunt and the niece went to breakfast, where Mrs. Touchett, as good as her word, made no allusion to Gilbert Osmond.†
Chpt 33
- Nevertheless, one morning, he made an abrupt allusion to it.†
Chpt 35
- But she was now reassured; she could see he only wished to live with her on good terms, that she was to understand he had forgiven her and was incapable of the bad taste of making pointed allusions.†
Chpt 38
- Lord Warburton of course spoke of the past, but he spoke of it without implications; he even went so far as to allude to their former meeting in Rome as a very jolly time.†
Chpt 38
- These two were gentlemen of a race which is not distinguished by the absence of reserve, and they had travelled together from London to Rome without an allusion to matters that were uppermost in the mind of each.†
Chpt 39
- This was one of the allusions he had not hitherto found occasion to make.†
Chpt 39
- It was in this manner that he had formed the harmless habit of alluding to Miss Osmond.†
Chpt 43
- She took for granted that he was always ready for some allusion to Mrs. Osmond; she had done so when they met in Paris, six weeks after his arrival in Europe, and she had repeated the assumption with every successive opportunity.†
Chpt 44
- He had no wish whatever to allude to Mrs. Osmond; he was NOT always thinking of her; he was perfectly sure of that.†
Chpt 44
- It was the first time she had alluded to the need for help, and the words shook her cousin with their violence.†
Chpt 45
- At the end of four days he alluded to his absence.†
Chpt 46
- Osmond appeared to take but a moderate interest in the proposal that they should go and stay with him and in his allusion to the success Pansy might extract from their visit.†
Chpt 46
- I merely speak of certain facts, and if the allusion's an injury to you the fault's not mine.†
Chpt 46
- Neither, after the first allusions, did the two men expatiate upon Mrs. Osmond—a theme in which Goodwood perceived as many dangers as Ralph.†
Chpt 47
- He made no allusion to his term being near, to the probability that he should not outlast the summer.†
Chpt 48
- It had become her habit to be so careful as to what she said to him that, strange as it may appear, she hesitated, for several minutes after he had come in, to allude to his daughter's sudden departure: she spoke of it only after they were seated at table.†
Chpt 50
- She looked at her young friend from head to foot, but not harshly nor defiantly; with a cold gentleness rather, and an absence of any air of allusion to their last meeting.†
Chpt 52
- And later, in a large dusky parlour in Wimpole Street—to do her justice there had been dinner enough—she asked those questions to which she had alluded at the station.†
Chpt 53
Definition:
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(allude) to make an indirect referenceeditor's notes: The expression, no allusion can mean "not even an indirect reference"; i.e., neither a direct nor an indirect reference to something.