All 25 Uses of
resume
in
Jane Eyre
- The upper teachers now punctually resumed their posts: but still, all seemed to wait.†
Chpt 5 *
- Mr. Brocklehurst resumed.†
Chpt 7
- Miss Temple got up, took her hand and examined her pulse; then she returned to her own seat: as she resumed it, I heard her sigh low.†
Chpt 8
- After a long silence, she resumed, still whispering — "I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear that I am dead, you must be sure and not grieve: there is nothing to grieve about.†
Chpt 9
- I was not free to resume the interrupted chain of my reflections till bedtime: even then a teacher who occupied the same room with me kept me from the subject to which I longed to recur, by a prolonged effusion of small talk.†
Chpt 10
- "Well," resumed Mr. Rochester, "if you disown parents, you must have some sort of kinsfolk: uncles and aunts?"†
Chpt 13
- "Take them off to the other table, Mrs. Fairfax," said he, "and look at them with Adele; — you" (glancing at me) "resume your seat, and answer my questions.†
Chpt 13
- Well, to resume.†
Chpt 15
- So putting my hand in through the open window, I drew the curtain over it, leaving only an opening through which I could take observations; then I closed the casement, all but a chink just wide enough to furnish an outlet to lovers' whispered vows: then I stole back to my chair; and as I resumed it the pair came in.†
Chpt 15
- I waited till the last deep and full vibration had expired — till the tide of talk, checked an instant, had resumed its flow; I then quitted my sheltered corner and made my exit by the side-door, which was fortunately near.†
Chpt 17
- A sufficient interval having elapsed for the performers to resume their ordinary costume, they re-entered the dining-room.†
Chpt 18
- It seemed that sleep and night had resumed their empire.†
Chpt 20
- Robert Leaven resumed — "Missis had been out of health herself for some time: she had got very stout, but was not strong with it; and the loss of money and fear of poverty were quite breaking her down.†
Chpt 21
- I resumed my notice of you.†
Chpt 27
- I dared to put off the mendicant — to resume my natural manner and character.†
Chpt 28
- He now resumed the book with which he had been occupied before tea.†
Chpt 29
- He resumed — "And since I am myself poor and obscure, I can offer you but a service of poverty and obscurity.†
Chpt 30
- So I snuffed the candle and resumed the perusal of "Marmion."†
Chpt 33
- "You must prove your identity of course," resumed St. John presently: "a step which will offer no difficulties; you can then enter on immediate possession.†
Chpt 33
- I resumed — "Your mother was my father's sister?"†
Chpt 33
- As our mutual happiness (i.e., Diana's, Mary's, and mine) settled into a quieter character, and we resumed our usual habits and regular studies, St. John stayed more at home: he sat with us in the same room, sometimes for hours together.†
Chpt 34
- Having stifled my sobs, wiped my eyes, and muttered something about not being very well that morning, I resumed my task, and succeeded in completing it.†
Chpt 34
- St. John is a strange being — " She paused — I did not speak: soon she resumed — "That brother of mine cherishes peculiar views of some sort respecting you, I am sure: he has long distinguished you by a notice and interest he never showed to any one else — to what end?†
Chpt 35
- I breathed again: my blood resumed its flow.†
Chpt 36
- I resumed a livelier vein of conversation.†
Chpt 37
Definition:
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(resume) begin or take on again