All 6 Uses
convey
in
The Phantom of the Opera
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- Gabriel raised his arms and dropped them to his sides again, which gesture was meant to convey that the question did not interest him in the least.†
Chpt 14 *convey = communicate or express
- He managed to convey, by a despairing gesture, that he knew nothing about it, or rather that he did not wish to know.†
Chpt 4
- He tapped his forehead with a distressful forefinger, to convey his opinion that the widow Jules Giry was most certainly mad, a piece of pantomime which confirmed M. Richard in his determination to get rid of an inspector who kept a lunatic in his service.†
Chpt 4
- I have had occasion to say that the managers' mood had undergone a disagreeable change for some time past and to convey the fact that this change was due not only to the fall of the chandelier on the famous night of the gala performance.†
Chpt 16
- Later, he learned that Erik had found, all prepared for him, a secret passage, long known to himself alone and contrived at the time of the Paris Commune to allow the jailers to convey their prisoners straight to the dungeons that had been constructed for them in the cellars; for the Federates had occupied the opera-house immediately after the eighteenth of March and had made a starting-place right at the top for their Mongolfier balloons, which carried their incendiary proclamations to the departments, and a state prison right at the bottom.†
Chpt 20
- We now knew all that the monster meant to convey when he said to Christine Daae: "Yes or no!†
Chpt 25
Definitions:
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(1)
(convey as in: convey her thoughts) communicate or express
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(2)
(convey as in: convey title to the property) to give or transfer -- especially legal title
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(3)
(convey as in: convey her safely to) transportToday, this sense of convey is seldom seen outside of historic literature.
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(4)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely (and then probably in classic literature), conveyance can refer to a carriage or other means of transportation.