Both Uses of
irrepressible
in
Wuthering Heights
- I listened to detect a woman's voice in the house, and filled the interim with wild regrets and dismal anticipations, which, at last, spoke audibly in irrepressible sighing and weeping.†
Chpt 13
- I rose with an irrepressible expression of what I felt on my lips, which induced my companion, who had been staring towards the door, to turn and look at me.†
Chpt 17 *
Definition:
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(irrepressible) impossible to repress or control