All 6 Uses of
resume
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- He resumed: —And, after blinking up at the sacred figure, Not a bloody bit like the man, says he.†
Chpt 6 *resumed = began again
- A POLISHED PERIOD J. J. O'Molloy resumed, moulding his words: —He said of it: that stony effigy in frozen music, horned and terrible, of the human form divine, that eternal symbol of wisdom and of prophecy which, if aught that the imagination or the hand of sculptor has wrought in marble of soultransfigured and of soultransfiguring deserves to live, deserves to live.†
Chpt 7
- At another time we may resume.†
Chpt 15resume = begin again
- He let go of the skin so that the profile resumed the normal expression of before.†
Chpt 16resumed = began again
- —Mind you, I'm not saying that it's all a pure invention, he resumed.†
Chpt 16
- I'm, he resumed with dramatic force, as good an Irishman as that rude person I told you about at the outset and I want to see everyone, concluded he, all creeds and classes pro rata having a comfortable tidysized income, in no niggard fashion either, something in the neighbourhood of 300 pounds per annum.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
begin or take on again