All 4 Uses of
revelation
in
Main Street
- She wheezed in, sighed, gave Carol a pulpy hand, sighed, glanced sharply at the revelation of ankles as Carol crossed her legs, sighed, inspected the new blue chairs, smiled with a coy sighing sound, and gave voice: "I've wanted to call on you so long, dearie, you know we're neighbors, but I thought I'd wait till you got settled, you must run in and see me, how much did that big chair cost?"†
Chpt 6
- This morning of late January, two or three weeks after Vida's revelations, Carol had gone into the stable-garage to find a hammer.†
Chpt 9 *
- Her most positive experience was the revelation of Mrs. Flickerbaugh, the tall, thin, twitchy wife of the attorney.†
Chpt 27
- She got through three more minutes by studying the face of a girl in the pew across: a sensitive unhappy girl whose longing poured out with intimidating self-revelation as she worshiped Mr. Zitterel.†
Chpt 28
Definition:
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(revelation with a lowercase "r") something that was previously unknown (and typically surprising); or making such a thing known