All 7 Uses of
repent
in
Bleak House
- If you accept my service, you will not repent it.†
Chpt 22-24 *
- Mademoiselle, you will not repent it, and I will serve you well.†
Chpt 22-24
- "Of repentance or remorse or any feeling of mine," Lady Dedlock presently proceeds, "I say not a word.†
Chpt 40-42
- The same wan day peeps in at Sir Leicester pardoning the repentant country in a majestically condescending dream; and at the cousins entering on various public employments, principally receipt of salary; and at the chaste Volumnia, bestowing a dower of fifty thousand pounds upon a hideous old general with a mouth of false teeth like a pianoforte too full of keys, long the admiration of Bath and the terror of every other community.†
Chpt 40-42
- 'Don't let me ever see you nowheres within forty mile of London, or you'll repent it.'†
Chpt 46-48
- Whether in a late repentance, whether in the first association that comes back upon him, he puts his hands together as a child does when it says its prayers, and raising them towards her breast, bows down his head, and cries.†
Chpt 55-57
- "You won't repent it, George.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(repent) to feel regret for having done wrong and to firmly decide to be a better person in the future