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Polonius

Hamlet stabs him through the arras. [Br. Lit.: Hamlet]

See : Concealment

Polonius

gives Laertes rules of conduct. [Br. Drama: Shakespeare Hamlet]

See : Counsel

Polonius

lurking behind arras, he is killed accidentally by Hamlet. [Br. Lit.: Hamlet]

See : Eavesdropping

Polonius

spies on Hamlet and Gertrude. [Br. Drama: Shakespeare Hamlet]

See : Spying

Polonius

wordy, “wretched, rash, intruding fool.” [Br. Lit.: Hamlet]

See : Talkativeness

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No references found	Polonius, of Coventry Street, and that gentleman never applied for their restoration, but they retired into a little private repository, in an old desk, which Amelia Sedley had given her years and years ago, and in which Becky kept a number of useful and, perhaps, valuable things, about which her husband knew nothing. Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context But if his father had lived to a good old age, and his uncle had died an early death, we can conceive Hamlet's having married Ophelia, and got through life with a reputation of sanity, notwithstanding many soliloquies, and some moody sarcasms toward the fair daughter of Polonius, to say nothing of the frankest incivility to his father-in-law. The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context This latter device was sometimes adopted at considerable violence to probability, as when Shakspere makes Falstaff bear away Hotspur, and Hamlet, Polonius. A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context	Pollock, Jackson Pollock, Oliver Pollock, Sir Frederick Pollock, Sir Frederick, 3rd Baronet Pollonarrua Pollucite pollutant Pollution pollution allowance pollux Pollux, Julius Pollyanna pollyfish Polnoglasie polo Polo, Marco Polochane Pologi Polokwane Polomet Polonaise Polonianichnye Dengi Polonina Polonium polonium-210 Polonius Polonnaruwa Polonnoe Polonskii, Iakov Polonskii, Iakov Petrovich Polonskii, Viacheslav Polonskii, Viacheslav Pavlovich Polonskii, Vladimir Polonskii, Vladimir Ivanovich Polosin, Evgenii Polosin, Evgenii Maksimovich Polosukhin, Aleksandr Polosukhin, Aleksandr Porfirevich Polotebnov, Aleksei Polotebnov, Aleksei Gerasimovich Polotnianyi Zavod Polotsk Polotsk Lowland Polotsk Principality Polousnyi Ridge Polovniki Polovtsi Polovtsy Polta Poltava Poltava Institute of Hog Raising	poloist poloist Poloium 210 Poloium 210 Poloium 210 Polokwane Polomet Polomolok National High School polonaise polonaise Polonaises Polonaises Polonese Polonia Bydgoszcz Net F@ns Polonianichnye Dengi polonies Polonina Polonist polonium polonium polonium polonium polonium Polonium 210 Polonium 210 Polonium 210 Polonium 218 Polonium 218 Polonium 218 polonium-210 Polonius Polonnaruva Polonnaruwa Polonnaruwa Dinasty Polonnoe POLONOROESTE Polonskii, Iakov Polonskii, Iakov Petrovich Polonskii, Viacheslav Polonskii, Viacheslav Pavlovich Polonskii, Vladimir Polonskii, Vladimir Ivanovich polony Polos Polos Polos Polosin, Evgenii Polosin, Evgenii Maksimovich Polosukhin, Aleksandr Polosukhin, Aleksandr Porfirevich Polotebnov, Aleksei Polotebnov, Aleksei Gerasimovich Polotnianyi Zavod Polotsk Polotsk Polotsk Lowland Polotsk Principality Polotsk Principality Polousnyi Ridge

Polonius, of Coventry Street, and that gentleman never applied for their restoration, but they retired into a little private repository, in an old desk, which Amelia Sedley had given her years and years ago, and in which Becky kept a number of useful and, perhaps, valuable things, about which her husband knew nothing.

Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context

But if his father had lived to a good old age, and his uncle had died an early death, we can conceive Hamlet's having married Ophelia, and got through life with a reputation of sanity, notwithstanding many soliloquies, and some moody sarcasms toward the fair daughter of Polonius, to say nothing of the frankest incivility to his father-in-law.

The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context

This latter device was sometimes adopted at considerable violence to probability, as when Shakspere makes Falstaff bear away Hotspur, and Hamlet, Polonius.

A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context

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