All 7 Uses of
revolution
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- Such is the case now, after so many ancient prejudices have been overthrown; and it was far more so in ante-Revolutionary days, when the aristocracy could venture to be proud, and the low were content to be abased.†
Chpt 1 *revolutionary = related to or causing dramatic change; of a supporter of the change
- During the Revolution, the Pyncheon of that epoch, adopting the royal side, became a refugee; but repented, and made his reappearance, just at the point of time to preserve the House of the Seven Gables from confiscation.†
Chpt 1
- Those old gentlemen that grew up before the Revolution used to put on grand airs.†
Chpt 4
- She was probably the very last person in town who still kept the time-honored spinning-wheel in constant revolution.†
Chpt 5
- The sound, however disagreeable, had very brisk life in it, and, together with the circle of curious children watching the revolutions of the wheel, appeared to give him a more vivid sense of active, bustling, and sunshiny existence than he had attained in almost any other way.†
Chpt 11
- And when, with the years settling down more weightily upon him, his early faith should be modified by inevitable experience, it would be with no harsh and sudden revolution of his sentiments.†
Chpt 12
- In most other cases and contingencies, the individual is present among us, mixed up with the daily revolution of affairs, and affording a definite point for observation.†
Chpt 21
Definitions:
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(1)
(revolution as in: the computer revolution) dramatic change -- sometimes violent overthrow of a government
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(2)
(revolution as in: revolution around the sun) circular movement -- sometimes referring to exactly one rotation