Literary notes about further (AI summary)
The word "further" functions in literature as both an indicator of additional extension and as a marker for moving deeper into a concept or space. It can describe physical progression or retreat, as seen when a character retreats further into the shade ([1]) or walks on further into the night ([2]). At the same time, it signals the addition of more detail or a new idea, whether in the form of added considerations in a discussion ([3]) or new narrative developments that build on prior events ([4], [5]). This versatile term is employed across genres to enrich narrative flow and clarify the progression of arguments or actions ([6], [7], [8]).
- Mr. Tupman felt that as Jingle’s popularity increased, he (Tupman) retired further into the shade.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens - The huntsman smiled a little, and they walked on further and further, until night fell.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm - Now let us add a few further considerations.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - He got a little further down than he wanted.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan - He made no further answer, but took up the collar I had brought.
— from The Best Short Stories of 1917, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story - Further, she had no inclination to know.
— from The Best Short Stories of 1917, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story - And you may further imagine that his instructor is pointing to the objects as they pass and requiring him to name them,—will he not be perplexed?
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato - But I will insist no further on so self-evident a point.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations by Marcus Tullius Cicero
