All 7 Uses of
revert
in
Bleak House
- It entered into all his calculations about money in a singular manner which I don't think I can better explain than by reverting for a moment to our loan to Mr. Skimpole.†
Chpt 7-9
- Mr. Weevle reverts from this intelligence to the Galaxy portraits implicated, and seems to know the originals, and to be known of them.†
Chpt 19-21 *
- "Yes, yes," says the good old gentleman, reverting to his lesson of wisdom.†
Chpt 19-21
- "Wishermaydie if I don't, sir," says Jo, reverting to his favourite declaration.†
Chpt 46-48
- "I am glad to hear it, Sir Leicester; and if I may, by way of a last word, revert to what I said before of my mother's long connexion with the family and the worth it bespeaks on both sides, I would point out this little instance here on my arm who shows herself so affectionate and faithful in parting and in whom my mother, I dare say, has done something to awaken such feelings— though of course Lady Dedlock, by her heartfelt interest and her genial condescension, has done much more."†
Chpt 46-48
- Some men rarely revert to their father, but seem, in the bank-books of their remembrance, to have transferred all the stock of filial affection into their mother's name.†
Chpt 49-51
- Let no one thank me any more, for I am going to revert to my bachelor habits, and if anybody disregards this warning, I'll run away and never come back!"†
Chpt 64-65
Definition:
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(revert as in: revert to childish ways) go back to a previous state