Volume 1 - Chapter 4
"Joseph must needs get up a congregation in the garret in the garret; and, while Hindley and his wife basked down stairs before a comfortable fire - doing anything but reading their Bibles, I'll answer for it - Heathcliff, myself and the unhappy plough-boy, were commanded to take our Prayer-books, and mount - we were ranged in a row, on a sack of corn, groaning and shivering, and hoping that Joseph would shiver too… The service had lasted precisely three hours; and yet my brother had the face to exclaim when he saw us descending, "What, done already?"" - Catherine
Litotes, Juxtaposition
"Joseph must needs get up a congregation in the garret in the garret; and, while Hindley and his wife basked down stairs before a comfortable fire - doing anything but reading their Bibles, I'll answer for it - Heathcliff, myself and the unhappy plough-boy, were commanded to take our Prayer-books, and mount - we were ranged in a row, on a sack of corn, groaning and shivering, and hoping that Joseph would shiver too… The service had lasted precisely three hours; and yet my brother had the face to exclaim when he saw us descending, "What, done already?"" - Catherine
Litotes, Juxtaposition
Volume 1 - Chapter 7
"I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I wait, if I can only do it, at last. I hope he will not die before I do!" - Heathcliff
Irony, Conflict
Volume 1 - Chapter 9
'"If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable." "Because you are not fit to go there," I answered. "All sinners would be miserable in heaven." ' - Catherine and Nelly
Allusion, Irony
Volume 1 - Chapter 12
"'Trouble me no more about her. Hereafter she is only my sister in name, not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.'" - Edgar Linton (with regards to Isabella)
Paradox
Volume 2 - Chapter 3
'"Hush, hush! He's a human being," I said. "Be more charitable; there are worse men than he is yet!"' - Nelly
Litotes
Volume 2 - Chapter 3
"One might suppose you had never opened a Bible in your life. If God afflict your enemies, surely that ought to suffice you. It is both mean and presumptuous to add your torture to his!" - Nelly (to Isabella)
Allusion, Conflict, Point of View