The Only Use of
Reign of Terror
in
Bleak House
- There was a lowering energy in her face as she stood looking at me while I explained the impossibility of my engaging her (without thinking it necessary to say how very little I desired to do so), which seemed to bring visibly before me some woman from the streets of Paris in the reign of terror.†
Chpt 22-24
Definition:
- (meaning too rare to warrant focus)