Whew! I finished Great Expectations, a major accomplishment for the summer! And in the end, I’m very pleased I took the time to keep plugging through, for several reasons, most of which I will reveal in a review later this month.
For this post I’d like to share yet another great vocabulary word to get your brain firing. (Dickens has taught me so many!). Late in Great Expectations, Pip attends a funeral and shares this:
…I became conscious of the servile Pumblechook in a black cloak and several yards of hat band, who was alternately stuffing himself, and making obsequious movements to catch my attention.
Jennifer’s boyfriend watched her with obsequious eyes, always ready to rub her back or relieve her of the slightest discomfort. Her mother wanted to kick some sense into the young man.
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Due to his years in an orphanage, my son has an obsequious awareness of food; I have the same affliction but with a penchant for the sugared variety.
Oooh! I do like this word. I haven’t read this particular classic yet, but I’m sure that I will eventually.
My two cents:
“The new puppy followed its master in an obsequious manner, attaching itself to him immediately.”
Oh, that’s a hard one!
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Alexandra~
My sister buttoned the cloth diaper and kissed the baby’s tummy with an obsequious murmur.
Might be right…lol
The family looked on as the nurse raised the hospital bed. Leslie sighed with relief as she watched the nurse’s obsequious care of her mother.
That was harder than I thought it’d be!
I know… I felt the same way.