Saying one thing while meaning another, often the opposite. The true meaning is left to whoever reads or hears.
In Quincas Borba
everything, from the slippers to the sky, everything falls under the same sense of ownership
The narrator says "sense of ownership" in a neutral tone, but by putting "the sky" in the same account as the slippers, he reveals the buyer who measures the whole world as property.
Chapters I to XII: Humanitas and the Philosopher's Death, the narrator
Tilbury was not a carriage
Chapters LVIII to LXVII: The Atalaia, the Rescue, and Maria Benedita, the narrator
a soft reproach, out of the corner of the mouth
Chapters LVIII to LXVII: The Atalaia, the Rescue, and Maria Benedita, the narrator
puts a live cicada beside twenty dead ants, to compensate them
Chapters XC to CII: Suspicion and Rubião's Candidacy, the narrator
Rubião took himself to be the author of many works not his own
Chapters CIII to CXIII: The Returned Letter and the Ten Contos, the narrator
one need not be drunk to light a cigar on other people's miseries
Chapters CXIV to CXVIII: The Engagement of Maria Benedita, the narrator
They gnawed with hunger, waiting, and listened silent and smiling to the host's speeches
Chapters CXXXIII to CXLVII: Dinner Guests, Tijuca, and the Imperial Beard, the narrator
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