All 37 Uses of
moreover
in
The Portrait of a Lady
- All this is a long way round, however, for my word about my dim first move toward "The Portrait," which was exactly my grasp of a single character—an acquisition I had made, moreover, after a fashion not here to be retraced.†
Chpt Pref.
- If they are shown as "mattering" as much as they could possibly pretend to, the proof of it is in a hundred other persons, made of much stouter stuff; and each involved moreover in a hundred relations which matter to THEM concomitantly with that one.†
Chpt Pref.
- The girl hovers, inextinguishable, as a charming creature, and the job will be to translate her into the highest terms of that formula, and as nearly as possible moreover into ALL of them.†
Chpt Pref.
- He must not think of benefits, moreover, I freely recognise, for that way dishonour lies: he has, that is, but one to think of—the benefit, whatever it may be, involved in his having cast a spell upon the simpler, the very simplest, forms of attention.†
Chpt Pref.
- Moreover I'm not sure, after all, that you'd be a remarkable husband.†
Chpt 1
- She was short and solid, and her claim to figure was questioned, but she was conceded presence, though not majesty; she had moreover, as people said, improved since her marriage, and the two things in life of which she was most distinctly conscious were her husband's force in argument and her sister Isabel's originality.†
Chpt 4
- But she was often reminded that there were other gardens in the world than those of her remarkable soul, and that there were moreover a great many places which were not gardens at all—only dusky pestiferous tracts, planted thick with ugliness and misery.†
Chpt 6
- The images of that time moreover had grown faint and remote, and the old-world quality in everything that she now saw had all the charm of strangeness.†
Chpt 6
- Many of her opinions had doubtless but a slender value, many of her emotions passed away in the utterance; but they had left a trace in giving her the habit of seeming at least to feel and think, and in imparting moreover to her words when she was really moved that prompt vividness which so many people had regarded as a sign of superiority.†
Chpt 6
- It must be added moreover that an incident had occurred which might have seemed to put her good-humour to the test.†
Chpt 7 *
- Her uncle and her cousin were there to prove it; nothing could be more medieval than many of their views; they had ideas that people in England nowadays were ashamed to confess to; and they had the impudence moreover, said his lordship, laughing, to pretend they knew more about the needs and dangers of this poor dear stupid old England than he who was born in it and owned a considerable slice of it—the more shame to him!†
Chpt 8
- Moreover," Isabel added, "my cousin gives me rather a sad account of Lord Warburton."†
Chpt 8
- And, moreover, if anything beside the sense she had already acquired that Lord Warburton was not a loose thinker had been needed to convince her, the tone in which he replied would quite have served the purpose.†
Chpt 12
- Isabel was sure moreover that her mild forehead and silver cross referred to some weird Anglican mystery—some delightful reinstitution perhaps of the quaint office of the canoness.†
Chpt 14
- She had moreover a great fondness for intervals of solitude, which since her arrival in England had been but meagrely met.†
Chpt 16
- She proposed moreover, as well as expected, to cease feeling; she freely admitted that of old she had been a little mad, and now she pretended to be perfectly sane.†
Chpt 19
- And then moreover Madame Merle never said such things in the tone of triumph or of boastfulness; they dropped from her like cold confessions.†
Chpt 19
- I hasten to add, moreover, that if she couldn't at the present moment keep from quite perversely yearning she was careful not to betray herself.†
Chpt 20
- Isabel could not have told you why, but she found something that ministered to mirth in the alliance the correspondent of the Interviewer had struck with Lady Pensil's brother; her amusement moreover subsisted in face of the fact that she thought it a credit to each of them.†
Chpt 20
- It affected her moreover as a peaceful interlude, as a hush of the drum and fife in a career which she had little warrant as yet for regarding as agitated, but which nevertheless she was constantly picturing to herself by the light of her hopes, her fears, her fancies, her ambitions, her predilections, and which reflected these subjective accidents in a manner sufficiently dramatic.†
Chpt 21
- The girl moreover was not prone to take for granted that she herself lived in the mind of others—she had not the fatuity to believe she left indelible traces.†
Chpt 21
- Englishmen liked moreover to be comfortable, said Isabel, and there could be little comfort for Lord Warburton, in the long run, in brooding over a self-sufficient American girl who had been but a casual acquaintance.†
Chpt 21
- It was moreover a seat of ease, indeed of luxury, telling of arrangements subtly studied and refinements frankly proclaimed, and containing a variety of those faded hangings of damask and tapestry, those chests and cabinets of carved and time-polished oak, those angular specimens of pictorial art in frames as pedantically primitive, those perverse-looking relics of medieval brass and pottery, of which Italy has long been the not quite exhausted storehouse.†
Chpt 22
- The Countess, moreover, by waiting, found the time ripe for one of her pretty perversities.†
Chpt 25
- Moreover his being in Rome at all affected her as a complication of the wrong sort—she liked so complications of the right.†
Chpt 27
- Her talk with him moreover pointed to presence of mind; it expressed a kindness so ingenious and deliberate as to indicate that she was in undisturbed possession of her faculties.†
Chpt 28
- It belonged to the past, moreover; it had occurred six months before and she had already laid aside the tokens of mourning.†
Chpt 39
- With her, moreover, she had been perfectly straightforward; she had never concealed her high opinion of Gilbert Osmond.†
Chpt 40
- She was herself moreover so unable to explain.†
Chpt 40
- Society, moreover, had no drawbacks for her; she liked even the tiresome parts—the heat of ball-rooms, the dulness of dinners, the crush at the door, the awkward waiting for the carriage.†
Chpt 40
- Moreover I'm not in the least trying now.†
Chpt 41
- It cost him therefore a lapse from consistency to say explicitly that he yearned for Lord Warburton and that if this nobleman should escape his equivalent might not be found; with which moreover it was another of his customary implications that he was never inconsistent.†
Chpt 41
- She was curious, moreover; for one of the impressions of her former visit had been that her brother had found his match.†
Chpt 44
- His perfect silence, moreover, the fact that she never heard from him and very seldom heard any mention of him, deepened this impression of his loneliness.†
Chpt 47
- He cultivated it, moreover, with very limited success; of which there could be no better proof than the deep, dumb irritation that reigned in his soul when he heard Osmond speak of his wife's feelings as if he were commissioned to answer for them.†
Chpt 48
- Moreover, since her arrival in Rome she had been much on her guard; she had pretty well ceased to flash her lantern at him.†
Chpt 48
- It's not a black lie, moreover, you know," the Countess inimitably added.†
Chpt 51
Definition:
in addition to what has just been said