Kategorie: Allgemein

Emulous.

He is not envious, but emulous of your attainments.

Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights

Heimarbeit.

[...] and then my home is not here. I’m of the busy world, and to its arms I must return.

Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights

Circumstände.

and it ended when circumstances caused each to feel that the one’s interest was not the chief consideration in the other’s thoughts.

Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights

Ohrdentlich.

Are you acquainted with the mood of mind in which, if you were seated alone, and the cat licking its kitten on the rug before you, you would watch the operation so intently that puss’s neglect of one ear would put you seriously out of temper?

Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights

Timeonality.

[...] person who has not done one-half his day’s work by ten o’clock [...]

Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights