All 4 Uses of
reign
in
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- A groan escaped from poor Potter, and he put his face in his hands and rocked his body softly to and fro, while a painful silence reigned in the court-room.†
Chpt 23reigned = was most powerful, important, or noticeable
- When they reached the haunted house there was something so weird and grisly about the dead silence that reigned there under the baking sun, and something so depressing about the loneliness and desolation of the place, that they were afraid, for a moment, to venture in.†
Chpt 26
- The blackness of darkness reigned, the perfect stillness was interrupted only by occasional mutterings of distant thunder.†
Chpt 28 *
- The children fastened their eyes upon their bit of candle and watched it melt slowly and pitilessly away; saw the half inch of wick stand alone at last; saw the feeble flame rise and fall, climb the thin column of smoke, linger at its top a moment, and then—the horror of utter darkness reigned!†
Chpt 31
Definitions:
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(1)
(reign as in: She reigned over England) rule (like that of a king or queen); or the time during which one ruled
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(2)
(reign as in: uncertainty reigns) to be most powerful, important, or noticeable