All 4 Uses of
memento
in
Jane Eyre
- 'You like Thornfield?' she said, lifting her finger; and then she wrote in the air a memento, which ran in lurid hieroglyphics all along the house-front, between the upper and lower row of windows, 'Like it if you can!†
p. 167.7 *
- I remember something, too, of the green grave-mounds; and I have not forgotten, either, two figures of strangers straying amongst the low hillocks and reading the mementoes graven on the few mossy head-stones.†
p. 332.8
- When you are at Madagascar, or at the Cape, or in India, would it be a consolation to have that memento in your possession?†
p. 429.2
- I have worn it since the day I lost my only treasure, as a memento of her.†
p. 514.5
Definition:
an object kept as a reminder of a past event or place