Literary notes about bundle (AI summary)
Literary texts employ the word "bundle" to evoke both tangible collections and abstract assemblies. It often refers to a physically tied group of items—a bundle of manuscripts ([1]), clothes ([2], [3], [4], [5]), or even arrows ([6])—that characters carry, dispose of, or use as pivotal objects in their journeys ([7], [8], [9]). At the same time, "bundle" carries metaphorical weight, suggesting a composite of qualities or contradictions, as when it denotes a “bundle of prejudices” ([10]) or reflects the intricate nature of human character ([11]). Across different genres and contexts, the term effectively communicates a sense of unity or cumulative force that drives narrative progression.
- He shewed me a bundle of manuscript, which I found to be an excellent translation of Voltaire’s “Henriade” into Italian verse.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - And then, that bundle of clothes prepared beforehand for the child; all that was singular; many mysteries lay concealed under it.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo - The yellow man carried his bundle and his cudgel in his hand.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo - He flung in the fire a bundle of bills which he had against petty and embarrassed tradesmen.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo - By her side lay the self-same bundle of rags which she had brought with her from her own home.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang - Nearly every man of the Creeks had a bow with a bundle of arrows, which he used after the [ 91 ] first fire with his gun.
— from Myths of the Cherokee by James Mooney - He did so; down went the bundle, instead of the farmer, into the well, and he managed to effect his escape.
— from English Villages by P. H. Ditchfield - and threw his bundle on his back, and went forth.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm - Catching up from the table a piece of bread, and taking his Bargeman's bundle under his arm, Riderhood immediately followed him.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens - I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices—made up of likings and dislikings—the veriest thrall to sympathies, apathies, antipathies.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 by Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb - He is a queer bundle of contradictions at all times.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. Riis
