All 9 Uses of
resume
in
The Age of Innocence
- Under the direction of her aunt (whose real name was Mrs. Thorley Chivers, but who, having received a Papal title, had resumed her first husband's patronymic, and called herself the Marchioness Manson, because in Italy she could turn it into Manzoni) the little girl received an expensive but incoherent education, which included "drawing from the model," a thing never dreamed of before, and playing the piano in quintets with professional musicians.†
Chpt 8
- During this interval she had become a less vivid and importunate image, receding from his foreground as May Welland resumed her rightful place in it.†
Chpt 11
- Mr. Letterblair resumed, after a waiting silence.†
Chpt 11
- Madame Olenska rose, wound it up and returned to the fire, but without resuming her seat.†
Chpt 12 *
- Archer made the gesture which he had seen so many bridegrooms make: with his ungloved right hand he felt in the pocket of his dark grey waistcoat, and assured himself that the little gold circlet (engraved inside: Newland to May, April —, 187-) was in its place; then, resuming his former attitude, his tall hat and pearl-grey gloves with black stitchings grasped in his left hand, he stood looking at the door of the church.†
Chpt 19
- , and felt his heart beginning to resume its usual task.†
Chpt 19
- The ring was on her hand, the Bishop's benediction had been given, the bridesmaids were a-poise to resume their place in the procession, and the organ was showing preliminary symptoms of breaking out into the Mendelssohn March, without which no newly-wedded couple had ever emerged upon New York.†
Chpt 19
- He vanished in the stream of passersby, and Archer resumed his patrol.†
Chpt 23
- She sat down and he resumed his seat; but neither spoke for a long time.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(resume) begin or take on again