All 4 Uses of
revert
in
Oliver Twist
- CHAPTER IV OLIVER, BEING OFFERED ANOTHER PLACE, MAKES HIS FIRST ENTRY INTO PUBLIC LIFE In great families, when an advantageous place cannot be obtained, either in possession, reversion, remainder, or expectancy, for the young man who is growing up, it is a very general custom to send him to sea.†
Chpt 4
- AND IN WHICH THE NARRATIVE REVERTS TO THE MERRY OLD GENTLEMAN AND HIS YOUTHFUL FRIENDS.†
Chpt 12 *
- Which, never failing to revert to his kind friends, and the opinion they must long ago have formed of him, were sad indeed.†
Chpt 18
- CHAPTER XXV WHEREIN THIS HISTORY REVERTS TO MR. FAGIN AND COMPANY While these things were passing in the country workhouse, Mr. Fagin sat in the old den—the same from which Oliver had been removed by the girl—brooding over a dull, smoky fire.†
Chpt 25
Definition:
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(revert as in: revert to childish ways) go back to a previous state