All 13 Uses
indignant
in
The Railway Children
(Edited)
- 'We haven't got anything to blab,' said Bobbie, indignantly.
p. 36.3indignantly = with anger or annoyance at something unjust or wrong
- 'Not much lark carrying that beastly heavy stuff up the hill,' said Peter, indignantly.
p. 41.3
- 'You had my last one,' said Phyllis, indignantly, 'to tie up the rabbit-hutch door with.'
p. 50.8
- 'You drop it if you please,' said the Porter, indignantly.
p. 62.1
- The children, watching his face and Mother's, knew that he was telling her things that made her angry and pitying, and sorry and indignant all at once.
p. 95.7indignant = angered or annoyed at something unjust or wrong
- 'Can't you fancy it?' said Perks, indignantly; 'don't you see 'im a-asking of me to step into 'is room and take a chair and listen to what 'er Ladyship 'as to say?'
p. 107.1indignantly = with anger or annoyance at something unjust or wrong
- 'Then I do think you might have given her the roses for nothing.' said Bobbie, indignantly.
p. 144.9
- 'No,' said Bobbie, indignantly.
p. 181.5
- 'Of course not — I'm not a kiddie,' said the boy, indignantly;
p. 220.8 *
- 'Of course we won't,' said Peter, indignantly, but Phyllis ignored the whole of the signalman's speech, except the first six words.
p. 231.6
- 'I didn't think that anyone would know but us,' said Bobbie, indignantly answering Peter's unspoken reproach.
p. 242.1
- 'I should think not, indeed,' muttered Peter, indignantly.
p. 244.4
- 'It's not listening,' he replied indignantly to Bobbie's scandalized remarks; 'nobody in their senses would talk secrets on the stairs.'
p. 250.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(indignant) angered or annoyed at something unjust or wrong
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)