All 7 Uses of
allude
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- He would be glad, therefore, if-especially in the quarter to which he alludes-the book may be read strictly as a Romance, having a great deal more to do with the clouds overhead than with any portion of the actual soil of the County of Essex.†
Chpt Pref. *alludes = makes an indirect reference
- There is a tradition, only worth alluding to as lending a tinge of superstitious awe to a scene perhaps gloomy enough without it, that a voice spoke loudly among the guests, the tones of which were like those of old Matthew Maule, the executed wizard,—"God hath given him blood to drink!"†
Chpt 1alluding = making an indirect reference
- The only members of the family known to be extant were, first, the Judge himself, and a single surviving son, who was now travelling in Europe; next, the thirty years' prisoner, already alluded to, and a sister of the latter, who occupied, in an extremely retired manner, the House of the Seven Gables, in which she had a life-estate by the will of the old bachelor.†
Chpt 1alluded = indirectly referenced
- —no, no!" said Hepzibah, not displeased at this allusion to the sombre dignity of an inherited curse.†
Chpt 3allusion = an indirect reference
- "I know the dispute to which you allude," observed Mr. Pyncheon with undisturbed equanimity.†
Chpt 13allude = to make an indirect reference
- But the talk, or scandal, to which we now allude, had reference to matters of no less old a date than the supposed murder, thirty or forty years ago, of the late Judge Pyncheon's uncle.†
Chpt 21
- "This is the very parchment, the attempt to recover which cost the beautiful Alice Pyncheon her happiness and life," said the artist, alluding to his legend.†
Chpt 21alluding = making an indirect reference
Definition:
to make an indirect reference
The expression, no allusion can mean "not even an indirect reference"; i.e., neither a direct nor an indirect reference to something.