All 4 Uses of
repose
in
Great Expectations
- Mrs. Joe made occasional trips with Uncle Pumblechook on market-days, to assist him in buying such household stuffs and goods as required a woman's judgment; Uncle Pumblechook being a bachelor and reposing no confidences in his domestic servant.†
Chpt 7
- I reposed complete confidence in no one but Biddy; but I told poor Biddy everything.†
Chpt 12 *
- By degrees he fell to reposing such great confidence in me, as to ask my advice in reference to his own affairs.†
Chpt 19
- After a short pause of repose, Miss Skiffins—in the absence of the little servant who, it seemed, retired to the bosom of her family on Sunday afternoons—washed up the tea-things, in a trifling lady-like amateur manner that compromised none of us.†
Chpt 37
Definition:
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(repose as in: repose on the sofa) to rest or lie