All 21 Uses of
resume
in
Wuthering Heights
- She flung the tea back, spoon and all, and resumed her chair in a pet; her forehead corrugated, and her red under-lip pushed out, like a child's ready to cry.†
p. 7.3resumed = began again
- 'It was your servant Zillah,' I replied, flinging myself on to the floor, and rapidly resuming my garments.†
p. 18.6 *resuming = beginning again
- The curtains were still looped up at one corner, and I resumed my station as spy; because, if Catherine had wished to return, I intended shattering their great glass panes to a million of fragments, unless they let her out.†
p. 35.5resumed = began again
- I resumed my song; not having forgotten her recent behaviour.†
p. 54.8
- 'I have waited here an hour,' he resumed, while I continued staring; 'and the whole of that time all round has been as still as death.†
p. 67.1
- But Heathcliff affirms his principal reason for resuming a connection with his ancient persecutor is a wish to instal himself in quarters at walking distance from the Grange, and an attachment to the house where we lived together; and likewise a hope that I shall have more opportunities of seeing him there than I could have if he settled in Gimmerton.†
p. 71.9resuming = beginning again
- 'There's no press in the room, and never was,' said I, resuming my seat, and looping up the curtain that I might watch her.†
p. 89.7
- She paused, and resumed with a strange smile.†
p. 92.3resumed = began again
- Mr. Linton had resumed his seat by the bed; on my re-entrance, he raised his eyes, read the meaning of my blank aspect, and dropped them without giving an order, or uttering a word.†
p. 96.9
- I replaced it in her lap, and stood waiting till it should please her to glance down; but that movement was so long delayed that at last I resumed — 'Must I read it, ma'am?†
p. 114.7
- After a pause and a prolonged gaze, she resumed; addressing me in accents of indignant disappointment:— 'Oh, you see, Nelly, he would not relent a moment to keep me out of the grave.†
p. 116.7
- 'How did she die?' he resumed, at last — fain, notwithstanding his hardihood, to have a support behind him; for, after the struggle, he trembled, in spite of himself, to his very finger-ends.†
p. 121.5
- Spring advanced; yet my master gathered no real strength, though he resumed his walks in the grounds with his daughter.†
p. 187.2
- He resumed his former occupation, closing his lids, as if he meant to drop asleep.†
p. 203.0
- 'Master Heathcliff,' I resumed, 'have you forgotten all Catherine's kindness to you last winter, when you affirmed you loved her, and when she brought you books and sung you songs, and came many a time through wind and snow to see you?†
p. 203.1
- After a short period he resumed his meditation on the picture, took it down and leant it against the sofa to contemplate it at better advantage; and while so occupied Catherine entered, announcing that she was ready, when her pony should be saddled.†
p. 211.3
- Mr. Heathcliff looked at him a bit, and then silently resumed his breakfast and his interrupted musing.†
p. 231.3
- Seventy times seven times have I plucked up my hat and been about to depart — Seventy times seven times have you preposterously forced me to resume my seat.†
p. 16.7
- 'Nevertheless, Mrs. Dean, resume your chair; because to-morrow I intend lengthening the night till afternoon.†
p. 43.5
- Therefore I said nothing when I met the master coming towards the parlour; but I took the liberty of turning back to listen whether they would resume their quarrel together.†
p. 85.7
- I said, hastening to resume my bonnet.†
p. 111.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(resume as in: resume the meeting) begin or take againThis sense of resume generally means to begin again or continue after a pause. In usage like, "resumed her seat", it scan also mean to take again.
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(2)
(résumé as in: submitted her résumé) a brief summary of a person's qualifications to do something -- typically submitted with an employment applicationIn practice, résumé is often written without the accented e's.
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, résumé can refer to any summary.