All 4 Uses of
emerge
in
Great Expectations
- On the present festive occasion he emerged from his room, when the blithe bells were going, the picture of misery, in a full suit of Sunday penitentials.†
p. 22.8 *
- This was understood to terminate the Course for the evening, and we emerged into the air with shrieks of intellectual victory.†
p. 77.3
- At such times the more exuberant among them called out in an excited manner on our emergence round some corner of expectancy, "Here they come!"†
p. 299.3
- In the same instant I heard responsive shouts, saw figures and a gleam of light dash in at the door, heard voices and tumult, and saw Orlick emerge from a struggle of men, as if it were tumbling water, clear the table at a leap, and fly out into the night.†
p. 457.7
Definition:
to come out, appear, or become prominent