All 5 Uses of
reign
in
Emma
- Man's boasted power and freedom, all are flown; Lord of the earth and sea, he bends a slave, And woman, lovely woman, reigns alone.†
Chpt 1.9-10
- And woman, lovely woman, reigns alone.†
Chpt 1.9-10 *
- Lord of the earth and sea, he bends a slave, And woman, lovely woman, reigns alone.†
Chpt 1.9-10
- It was a style of beauty, of which elegance was the reigning character, and as such, she must, in honour, by all her principles, admire it:—elegance, which, whether of person or of mind, she saw so little in Highbury.†
Chpt 2.1-2
- CHAPTER XIII The weather continued much the same all the following morning; and the same loneliness, and the same melancholy, seemed to reign at Hartfield—but in the afternoon it cleared; the wind changed into a softer quarter; the clouds were carried off; the sun appeared; it was summer again.†
Chpt 3.13-14
Definition:
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(reign as in: She reigned over England) rule (like that of a king or queen); or the time during which one ruled