All 8 Uses of
resume
in
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly: "Well, maybe it is, and maybe it ain't.†
Chpt 2
- The latter third of the speech was marred by the resumption of fights and other recreations among certain of the bad boys, and by fidgetings and whisperings that extended far and wide, washing even to the bases of isolated and incorruptible rocks like Sid and Mary.†
Chpt 4
- Now he lapsed into suffering again, as the dry argument was resumed.†
Chpt 5 *
- The discourse was resumed presently, but it went lame and halting, all possibility of impressiveness being at an end; for even the gravest sentiments were constantly being received with a smothered burst of unholy mirth, under cover of some remote pew-back, as if the poor parson had said a rarely facetious thing.†
Chpt 5
- …on doorsteps in fine weather and in empty hogsheads in wet; he did not have to go to school or to church, or call any being master or obey anybody; he could go fishing or swimming when and where he chose, and stay as long as it suited him; nobody forbade him to fight; he could sit up as late as he pleased; he was always the first boy that went barefoot in the spring and the last to resume leather in the fall; he never had to wash, nor put on clean clothes; he could swear wonderfully.†
Chpt 6
- But at last the battle was done, and the forces retired with weaker and weaker threatenings and grumblings, and peace resumed her sway.†
Chpt 16
- Becky resumed her picture inspections with Alfred, but as the minutes dragged along and no Tom came to suffer, her triumph began to cloud and she lost interest; gravity and absent-mindedness followed, and then melancholy; two or three times she pricked up her ear at a footstep, but it was a false hope; no Tom came.†
Chpt 18
- All that they knew was, that after what seemed a mighty stretch of time, both awoke out of a dead stupor of sleep and resumed their miseries once more.†
Chpt 31
Definition:
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(resume) begin or take on again