All 13 Uses of
resume
in
The Invisible Man by Wells
- He glanced inquiringly at the window before he removed his serviette, and resumed his meal.†
Chpt 1
- It was all over; the stranger had resumed work.†
Chpt 3
- He resumed.†
Chpt 4
- By the afternoon even those who believed in the Unseen were beginning to resume their little amusements in a tentative fashion, on the supposition that he had quite gone away, and with the sceptics he was already a jest.†
Chpt 10
- The muttered conversation ceased abruptly, for a moment silence, then the conversation was resumed, in hissing whispers, then a sharp cry of "No! no, you don't!"†
Chpt 12
- The second labourer came round in a circle, stared, and conceiving that Hall had tumbled over of his own accord, turned to resume the pursuit, only to be tripped by the ankle just as Huxter had been.†
Chpt 12
- He tried to resume his work, failed, got up, went downstairs from his study to the landing, rang, and called over the balustrade to the housemaid as she appeared in the hall below.†
Chpt 17
- For a space Griffin sat silent, and then he resumed abruptly: "I had left the Chesilstowe cottage already," he said, "when that happened.†
Chpt 20
- Then he resumed abruptly: "I remember that morning before the change very vividly.†
Chpt 20
- It ceased, footsteps went away and returned, and the knocking was resumed.†
Chpt 20
- On the table was his belated breakfast, and it was a confoundedly exasperating thing for me, Kemp, to have to sniff his coffee and stand watching while he came in and resumed his meal.†
Chpt 23
- Kemp tried to think of something to keep the talk going, but the Invisible Man resumed of his own accord.
Chpt 24 *resumed = began again
- Then the blows of the axe with its splitting and smashing consequences, were resumed.†
Chpt 27
Definition:
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(resume) begin or take on again