Piling wrote:I'm currently reading I Capture the Castle. I like it. I wonder how is the movie.
Mr Brown stared broadly at the speaker.
Piling wrote:Mr Brown stared broadly at the speaker.
I don't understand what means 'broadly' in that sentence. I know its meaning of 'large', 'general' or strong/thick for a accent. But a look ? Does it mean he stared with his eyes wide open ?
Piling wrote:It has been written in 1860s. Perhaps the language shifted in that case.
“ Sir," said Mrs Christian, “ I decline to give you any information. If my son was here, instead of being in India, as everybody knows, I might have some one to act for me. But you may be certain I shall take advice upon it. You will hear from my solicitor, Mr Brown ; I decline to give you any information on the subject."
Mr Brown stared broadly at the speaker ; his face reddened. He watched her get up and make her way out of the room with a perplexed look, half angry, half compassionate. She went out with a little of the passionate and resentful air which deprives such disappointments of the sympathy they deserve — wrathful, vindictive, consoling herself with dreams that it was all a plot, and she could still have her rights ;
Open; clear; not covered, confined, or concealed; as, in broad sunshine.
Gross; coarse; as, broad mirth; broad nonsense. – Pope. Dryden.
Plain; tending to obscenity; as, a broad comment. – Dryden.
Bold; not delicate; not reserved; as, broad words. – Shak.
Piling wrote:https://1828.mshaffer.com/d/word/broad
in the 1844 column :
Open; clear; not covered, confined, or concealed; as, in broad sunshine.
Gross; coarse; as, broad mirth; broad nonsense. – Pope. Dryden.
Plain; tending to obscenity; as, a broad comment. – Dryden.
Bold; not delicate; not reserved; as, broad words. – Shak.
Perhaps it means that he stares her openly, in an almost rude manner ?
He did nothing except shake his fist at young Rider's drag as it whirled the doctor past to his patients
Piling wrote:He did nothing except shake his fist at young Rider's drag as it whirled the doctor past to his patients
what does it mean ?
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