Both Uses of
phase
in
The Mill on the Floss
- Chapter III The New Schoolfellow It was a cold, wet January day on which Tom went back to school; a day quite in keeping with this severe phase of his destiny.†
Chpt 2.3
- A conspicuous quality in the Dodson character was its genuineness; its vices and virtues alike were phases of a proud honest egoism, which had a hearty dislike to whatever made against its own credit and interest, and would be frankly hard of speech to inconvenient "kin," but would never forsake or ignore them,—would not let them want bread, but only require them to eat it with bitter herbs.†
Chpt 4.1 *
Definition:
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(phase as in: during the first phase) a period of time or a stage during the development of something