All 8 Uses of
repent
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- Being a woman with some good sense in reasoning on subjects wherein her heart was not involved, Bathsheba genuinely repented that a freak which had owed its existence as much to Liddy as to herself, should ever have been undertaken, to disturb the placidity of a man she respected too highly to deliberately tease.†
Chpt 16-18
- I have bitterly repented of it—ay, bitterly, and in tears.†
Chpt 31-33
- Ah, a time of his life shall come when he will have to repent, and think wretchedly of the pain he has caused another man; and then may he ache, and wish, and curse, and yearn—as I do now!†
Chpt 31-33
- His mind sped into the future, and saw there enacted in years of leisure the scenes of repentance that would ensue from this work of haste.†
Chpt 34-36 *
- If you repent of marrying, so do I." Trembling now, she put her hand upon his arm, saying, in mingled tones of wretchedness and coaxing, "I only repent it if you don't love me better than any woman in the world!†
Chpt 40-42
- Trembling now, she put her hand upon his arm, saying, in mingled tones of wretchedness and coaxing, "I only repent it if you don't love me better than any woman in the world!†
Chpt 40-42
- You don't repent because you already love somebody better than you love me, do you?"†
Chpt 40-42
- The flowers so carefully planted by Fanny's repentant lover began to move and writhe in their bed.†
Chpt 46-48
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