All 46 Uses of
resume
in
Bleak House
- The shawl in which she had been loosely muffled dropped onto her chair when she advanced to us; and as she turned to resume her seat, we could not help noticing that her dress didn't nearly meet up the back and that the open space was railed across with a lattice-work of stay-lace—like a summer-house.†
Chpt 4-6
- I could see that the poor girl was near crying, and I resumed my chair without speaking and looked at her (I hope) as mildly as I felt towards her.†
Chpt 4-6
- "You see, I have so many things here," he resumed, holding up the lantern, "of so many kinds, and all as the neighbours think (but THEY know nothing), wasting away and going to rack and ruin, that that's why they have given me and my place a christening.†
Chpt 4-6
- "I would beg Miss Clare's pardon and Mr. Carstone's pardon," resumed our visitor, "if I were not reassured by seeing in the fair face of the lady and the smile of the gentleman that it is quite unnecessary and that they keep their distant relation at a comfortable distance."†
Chpt 7-9
- "He will never pay it!" says the young man, resuming his examination.†
Chpt 10-12
- "Well, gentlemen," resumes the coroner.†
Chpt 10-12
- She smiles, looks very handsome, takes his arm, lounges with him for a quarter of a mile, is very much bored, and resumes her seat in the carriage.†
Chpt 10-12
- Sir Leicester's gallantry concedes the point, though he still feels that to bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes is really—really— "I was about to say," resumes the lawyer with undisturbed calmness, "that whether he had died by his own hand or not, it was beyond my power to tell you.†
Chpt 10-12
- "It was a great change from Captain Swosser to Professor Dingo," she resumed with a plaintive smile.†
Chpt 13-15
- At last, as his spirits were not equal to the piano, we put him on a chair to look out of window; and Miss Jellyby, holding him by one leg, resumed her confidence.†
Chpt 13-15
- Some time elapses in the present instance before the old gentleman is sufficiently cool to resume his discourse, and even then he mixes it up with several edifying expletives addressed to the unconscious partner of his bosom, who holds communication with nothing on earth but the trivets.†
Chpt 19-21
- "However," Mr. George resumes, "the less said about it, the better now.†
Chpt 19-21
- And lookee here, Mr. Snagsby," resumes Bucket, taking him aside by the arm, tapping him familiarly on the breast, and speaking in a confidential tone.†
Chpt 22-24
- Then resuming his encouragement, he pursued aloud: "Worn out, Mr. Gridley?†
Chpt 22-24
- "My friends," he resumes after dabbing his fat head for some time— and it smokes to such an extent that he seems to light his pockethandkerchief at it, which smokes, too, after every dab—"to pursue the subject we are endeavouring with our lowly gifts to improve, let us in a spirit of love inquire what is that Terewth to which I have alluded.†
Chpt 25-27
- The master resumes his march, and the man resumes his preparation of breakfast.†
Chpt 25-27
- The master resumes his march, and the man resumes his preparation of breakfast.†
Chpt 25-27
- "Ah!" says Mr. George, resuming his breakfast.†
Chpt 25-27
- This tends to the discomfiture of Mr. Smallweed, who finds it so difficult to resume his object, whatever it may be, that he becomes exasperated and secretly claws the air with an impotent vindictiveness expressive of an intense desire to tear and rend the visage of Mr. George.†
Chpt 25-27
- "But to pass from one subject to another," resumes Mr. Smallweed.†
Chpt 25-27
- "I supposed, sergeant," Mr. Tulkinghorn resumes as he leans on one side of his chair and crosses his legs, "that Mr. Smallweed might have sufficiently explained the matter.†
Chpt 25-27
- With that, he takes three strides forward to replace the papers on the lawyer's table and three strides backward to resume his former station, where he stands perfectly upright, now looking at the ground and now at the painted ceiling, with his hands behind him as if to prevent himself from accepting any other document whatever.†
Chpt 25-27
- The trooper retires to a distant part of the room and resumes his curious inspection of the boxes,
Chpt 25-27 *resumes = begins again
- "I believe," returned my guardian, resuming his uneasy walk, "that there is not such another child on earth as yourself."†
Chpt 31-33
- "And it was then," resumes Mr. Guppy, still glancing with remarkable aversion at the coat-sleeve, as they pursue their conversation before the fire, leaning on opposite sides of the table, with their heads very near together, "that he told you of his having taken the bundle of letters from his lodger's portmanteau?"†
Chpt 31-33
- Mr. Guppy, noiselessly tapping on the window-sill, resumes his whispering in quite a light-comedy tone.†
Chpt 31-33
- "And as to Krook," resumes Mr. Guppy.†
Chpt 31-33
- Having got over her own short narrative, in the delivery of which she had spoken in a low, strained voice, as if the shock were fresh upon her, she gradually resumed her usual air of amiable importance.†
Chpt 34-36
- "Esther," Richard resumed, "you are not to suppose that I have come here to make underhanded charges against John Jarndyce.†
Chpt 37-39
- "Now, when you mention responsibility," he resumed, "I am disposed to say that I never had the happiness of knowing any one whom I should consider so refreshingly responsible as yourself.†
Chpt 37-39
- "If you will allow me to finish what I have to say at once so that I may have no occasion to resume," I went on, seeing him about to speak, "you will do me a kindness, sir.†
Chpt 37-39
- Mr. Guppy, refolding his arms, resettles himself against the parapet, as resuming a conversation of interest.†
Chpt 37-39
- He crossed to the door to see that it was shut (but I had seen to that) and resumed his seat before me.†
Chpt 43-45
- "To accept this offer, my dear Esther," said he, sitting down beside me and resuming our conversation, "—once more, pray, pray forgive me; I am deeply grieved—to accept my dearest cousin's offer is, I need not say, impossible.†
Chpt 43-45
- Mr. Woodcourt," the trooper resumes his march, "all I say is, he is an old man; but I am glad I shall never have the chance of setting spurs to my horse and riding at him in a fair field.†
Chpt 46-48
- Having thought a bit, he looked up again and resumed.†
Chpt 52-54
- He stopped on hearing some one at the locks and bolts and did not resume until the door had been opened and was shut again.†
Chpt 52-54
- "So much so, Sir Leicester Dedlock, Baronet," Mr. Bucket resumes, "that I was on the point of asking your permission to turn the key in the door."†
Chpt 52-54
- As soon as the paper was sent out upon its travels, the two officers resumed their former quiet work of writing with neatness and care.†
Chpt 55-57
- I had heard him ordering drink, and chinking money, and making himself agreeable and merry everywhere; but whenever he took his seat upon the box again, his face resumed its watchful steady look, and he always said to the driver in the same business tone, "Get on, my lad!"†
Chpt 55-57
- The woman had not resumed her chair, but stood faltering with her hand upon its broken back, looking at me.†
Chpt 55-57
- Overpowered by his exertions, he lays his head back on his pillows and closes his eyes for not more than a minute, when he again resumes his watching of the weather and his attention to the muffled sounds.†
Chpt 58-60
- When my guardian thought me well and cheerful enough to talk with him in our old way—though I could have done that sooner if he would have believed me—I resumed my work and my chair beside his.†
Chpt 58-60
- It had been laid by on the night preceding my sad journey and never resumed.†
Chpt 58-60
- Woodcourt is in attendance upon Mr. C., I believe?" he resumed.†
Chpt 58-60
- "I was thinking, sir," resumed Richard, "that there is nothing on earth I should so much like to see as their house—Dame Durden's and Woodcourt's house.†
Chpt 64-65
Definition:
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(resume) begin or take on again