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Definition
to come out, or to appear
- 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.Chapter 4 (18% in)
- This was understood to terminate the Course for the evening, and we emerged into the air with shrieks of intellectual victory.Chapter 10 (18% in)
- 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!"Chapter 35 (40% in)
- 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.Chapter 53 (66% in)
There are no more uses of "emerge" in Great Expectations.
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