Vocabulary Word
Word: juncture
Definition: crisis; point in time; joining point; joint; act of joining
Definition: crisis; point in time; joining point; joint; act of joining
Sentences Containing 'juncture'
At which juncture, he exclaimed, in a voice of dire exasperation:``Bust me, if she ain't at it agin!''
The Knitting Done In that same juncture of time when the Fifty Two awaited their fate Madame Defarge held darkly ominous council with The Vengeance and Jacques Three of the Revolutionary Jury.
Note also where the upper eyelid comes against the flesh under the eyebrow -LRB- usually a strongly marked fold -RRB- and the differences of planes that occur at this juncture.
All Lothario's good sense seems to have failed him at this juncture; all his prudent maxims escaped his memory; for without once reflecting rationally, and without more ado, in his impatience and in the blindness of the jealous rage that gnawed his heart, and dying to revenge himself upon Camilla, who had done him no wrong, before Anselmo had risen he hastened to him and said to him, "Know, Anselmo, that for several days past I have been struggling with myself, striving to withhold from thee what it is no longer possible or right that I should conceal from thee.
It must be excited by nature, like all other sentiments; and must arise from the particular situation, in which the mind is placed at any particular juncture.
That was Mr. Micawber's expression, "Provided for."' Mr. Micawber looking up at this juncture to where we were standing, I had only time to repeat my caution.
'Mr. Copperfield,' returned Mr. Micawber, 'your confidence is not, at the existing juncture, ill-bestowed.
But having in my life perused many state-trials, which I ever observed to terminate as the judges thought fit to direct, I durst not rely on so dangerous a decision, in so critical a juncture, and against such powerful enemies.
And as I have been always told, and found true by experience in my travels, that flying or discovering fear before a fierce animal, is a certain way to make it pursue or attack you, so I resolved, in this dangerous juncture, to show no manner of concern.
Perhaps many travellers have not been under greater difficulties and distress than I was at this juncture, expecting every moment to see my box dashed to pieces, or at least overset by the first violent blast, or rising wave.
It was curious and not unpleasing, how Peleg and Bildad were affected at this juncture, especially Captain Bildad.
At this juncture the Pequod's keels had shot by the three German boats last lowered; but from the great start he had had, Derick's boat still led the chase, though every moment neared by his foreign rivals.
Now, inclusive of the occasional wide intervals between the revolving outer circles, and inclusive of the spaces between the various pods in any one of those circles, the entire area at this juncture, embraced by the whole multitude, must have contained at least two or three square miles.
Had you stepped on board the Pequod at a certain juncture of this post-mortemizing of the whale; and had you strolled forward nigh the windlass, pretty sure am I that you would have scanned with no small curiosity a very strange, enigmatical object, which you would have seen there, lying along lengthwise in the lee scuppers.
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::: commensurate - equal in extent; of the same size
::: decimate - kill (usually one out of ten or every tenth man); destroy or kill a large part of
::: emanate - issue forth; come out
::: constituency - voters represented by an elected official; district so represented; group of supporters (or constituents)
