All 3 Uses of
reminiscence
in
The Mill on the Floss
- But the Duke of Wellington was really alive, and Bony had not been long dead; therefore Mr. Poulter's reminiscences of the Peninsular War were removed from all suspicion of being mythical.†
Chpt 2.4 *reminiscences = things remembered from the past
- Bob's juvenile history, so far as it had come under Mr. Tulliver's knowledge, was recalled with that sense of astonishing promise it displayed, which is observable in all reminiscences of the childhood of great men.†
Chpt 5.6
- Tom knew that the affair his uncle had to speak of was not urgent; Mr. Deane was too shrewd and practical a man to allow either his reminiscences or his snuff to impede the progress of trade.†
Chpt 6.5
Definition:
something remembered from the past; or the act of remembering it