All 10 Uses of
manifest
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- If any volume could have manifested its essential wisdom in the mode suggested, it would certainly have been the one now in Hepzibah's hand; and the kitchen, in such an event, would forthwith have streamed with the fragrance of venison, turkeys, capons, larded partridges, puddings, cakes, and Christmas pies, in all manner of elaborate mixture and concoction.†
Chpt 7manifested = made obvious (or shown)
- Its manifestations were so various, and agreed so little with one another, that the girl knew not what to make of it.†
Chpt 7 *manifestations = demonstrations (things made obvious or shown)
- It was betrayed in the unconscious smile with which he regarded Phoebe, whose fresh and maidenly figure was both sunshine and flowers,—their essence, in a prettier and more agreeable mode of manifestation.†
Chpt 7manifestation = demonstration (something made obvious or shown)
- A beauty,—not precisely real, even in its utmost manifestation, and which a painter would have watched long to seize and fix upon his canvas, and, after all, in vain,—beauty, nevertheless, that was not a mere dream, would sometimes play upon and illuminate his face.†
Chpt 9
- His glance, as he fastened it on the young girl, grew involuntarily more concentrated; in his attitude there was the consciousness of power, investing his hardly mature figure with a dignity that did not belong to its physical manifestation.†
Chpt 14
- But, as the little personage could not be induced to approach near enough to explain himself, Phoebe concluded that he had been frightened, on some of his visits to the shop, by her cousin Hepzibah; for the good lady's manifestations, in truth, ran about an equal chance of scaring children out of their wits, or compelling them to unseemly laughter.†
Chpt 19manifestations = demonstrations (things made obvious or shown)
- On perceiving a young rose-bud of a girl, instead of the gaunt presence of the old maid, a look of surprise was manifest.†
Chpt 8
- If we mistake not, moreover, a certain quality of nervousness had become more or less manifest, even in so solid a specimen of Puritan descent as the gentleman now under discussion.†
Chpt 8
- Not that he could ever be said to converse with her, or often manifest, in any other very definite mode, his sense of a charm in her society.†
Chpt 9
- God will make it manifest!†
Chpt 20
Definitions:
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(1)
(manifest as in: manifest destiny) obvious; or to make obvious; or to show or demonstrate
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(2)
(manifest as in: ship's manifest) an official document listing contents being transported