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Definition
to scatter or cause to spread
- They dispersed about the room, reminding me, by the lightness and buoyancy of their movements, of a flock of white plumy birds.Chapter 17 (48% in)
- The sound of the dressing-bell dispersed the party.Chapter 18 (64% in)
- I had heard from Mrs. Fairfax in the interim of my absence: the party at the hall was dispersed; Mr. Rochester had left for London three weeks ago, but he was then expected to return in a fortnight.Chapter 22 (33% in)
- His idea was still with me, because it was not a vapour sunshine could disperse, nor a sand-traced effigy storms could wash away; it was a name graven on a tablet, fated to last as long as the marble it inscribed.Chapter 34 (48% in)
There are no more uses of "disperse" in Jane Eyre.
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