Allusions
[ə'lu:ʒnz]
Examples
- Your allusions are lost on me sir, said Bulstrode, with white heat; the law has no hold on me either through your agency or any other. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Poor pretence as it is, these allusions to her being expected keep up hope within him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- We will make no more agitating allusions; we will resume our gossip. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She felt it to be the probable consequence of her allusions to Mr. Wickham, and rejoiced in it. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I wish I could break you of that dreadful habit of making such indecent allusions, Harriette! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The lady's allusions to her past, and her refusal to take her husband into her confidence, both pointed in that direction. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I have met with a variety of allusions to it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The allusions in his letter to the preparations made for the expedition to Central America, all show that the leaders of it know it to be dangerous. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- There were allusions to some deeds--possibly the more valuable--which I could not find. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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