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Definition
to come out, or to appear
- They were all now inside the field, and she was edging back to rush off alone when a horseman emerged almost silently from the corner of the hedge that screened the road, and Alec d'Urberville looked round upon them.1 — The Maiden (90% in)
- Then Mrs Crick emerged from the house, and several others of their old acquaintance, though Marian and Retty did not seem to be there.5 — The Woman Pays (32% in)
- XLII It was now broad day, and she started again, emerging cautiously upon the highway.5 — The Woman Pays (67% in)
- As the young lady was not fully dressed, Mrs Brooks knew that she would not emerge again for some time.7 — Fulfilment (42% in)
- There was no food on the premises, but there was water, and he took advantage of the fog to emerge from the mansion and fetch tea, bread, and butter from a shop in a little place two miles beyond, as also a small tin kettle and spirit-lamp, that they might get fire without smoke.7 — Fulfilment (72% in)
- They had emerged upon this road through a narrow, barred wicket in a high wall a little lower down.7 — Fulfilment (95% in)
- The wicket from which the pair had lately emerged was in the wall of this structure.7 — Fulfilment (99% in)
There are no more uses of "emerge" in Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
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