All 5 Uses of
phase
in
The House of Mirth
- It was on this phase of the proceedings that Miss Bart entered on the afternoon of her return from the Van Osburgh wedding.†
Chpt 1.9
- By and bye he'll get out of that phase, and want something that the crowd will pass and the few pause before.†
Chpt 1.14 *
- She had passed beyond the phase of well-bred reciprocity, in which every demonstration must be scrupulously proportioned to the emotion it elicits, and generosity of feeling is the only ostentation condemned.†
Chpt 2.12
- She had a few handsome dresses left—survivals of her last phase of splendour, on the Sabrina and in London—but when she had been obliged to part with her maid she had given the woman a generous share of her cast-off apparel.†
Chpt 2.13
- Poverty simplifies book-keeping, and her financial situation was easier to ascertain than it had been then; but she had not yet learned the control of money, and during her transient phase of luxury at the Emporium she had slipped back into habits of extravagance which still impaired her slender balance.†
Chpt 2.13
Definition:
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(phase as in: during the first phase) a period of time or a stage during the development of something