All 6 Uses of
relapse
in
The Mill on the Floss
- Evidently, after his fit of promptitude, Mr. Tulliver was relapsing into the sense that this is a puzzling world.†
Chpt 1.8 *
- But perceiving that his first advances toward amity were not met, he relapsed into his least favorable disposition toward Philip, and resolved never to appeal to him either about drawing or exercise again.†
Chpt 2.5
- Maggie, on the contrary, after her momentary delight in Tom's speech, had relapsed into her state of trembling indignation.†
Chpt 3.3
- "Sit down, sit down," said Mr. Deane, relapsing into his accounts, in which he and the managing-clerk remained so absorbed for the next half-hour that Tom began to wonder whether he should have to sit in this way till the bank closed,—there seemed so little tendency toward a conclusion in the quiet, monotonous procedure of these sleek, prosperous men of business.†
Chpt 3.5
- The walk was finished in silence after this, for Luke had disburthened himself of thoughts to an extent that left his conversational resources quite barren, and Mr. Tulliver had relapsed from his recollections into a painful meditation on the choice of hardships before him.†
Chpt 3.9
- She saw it daily—saw it in the sickened look of fatigue with which, as soon as he was not compelled to exert himself, he relapsed into indifference toward everything but the possibility of watching her.†
Chpt 6.13
Definition:
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(relapse) to return to an undesirable previous condition -- especially illness, addiction, or bad behavior