Relapsing

Examples

• Whispering Sikes that there was no fear of her relapsing, Fagin took up his hat and bade him good-night. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Besides which, she is so charmingly ugly,' relapsing into languor. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• She was by that time perseveringly dictating to Caddy, and Caddy was fast relapsing into the inky condition in which we had found her. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I dustn't, says Jo, relapsing into the profile state. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She was fast relapsing into stupor; nor did her mind again rally: at twelve o'clock that night she died. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Ay,' murmured the sick woman, relapsing into her former drowsy state, 'what about her? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• That is, you know, said Richard, relapsing into doubt, if it really is worth-while, after all, to make such a disturbance about nothing particular! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• You haven't been relapsing into (Mrs General is not here) into old habits, have you, Amy? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Jane had spent an evening at Hartfield with her grandmother and aunt, and every thing was relapsing much into its usual state. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Impossible, said Mary, relapsing into her usual tone; husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Try the settee, said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in judicial moods. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Typist: Serena