" The Folio reads, "Hath caused to belch up you"; and Mr. White says in his note, "The tautological repetition of the pronoun was a habit, almost a custom, with the Elizabethan dramatists."

Only after three repetitions was the Hunter, on his part, able to understand the reply; but he finally succeeded in making out that the city was not to be reached in less than two long hours, and then only by a path which was difficult to find.

Repetition, as in many stanzas of Part IV., is a device caught from the folk-ballad and modified to produce the effect of a spell, which is so strong a mark of the poem.

A repetition of petty requisitions soon becomes an odious tyranny.

The repetition of that jargon with a profane conclusion (for so it seemed, in the slipshod way that it was said), which the coroner called an oath, was a positive pleasure to that official.

A repetition in narrative of matters already seen in action is the grossest of technical blunders.

It ought to be remembered that the repetition of a group is an easier thing to deal with than the combination of two groups, that is, six is a name for two threes and eight for two fours, but five and seven have not so definite a meaning.

The repetition of the word degree, in saying, "The superlative degree increases or lessens the positive to the highest or lowest degree," is a disagreeable tautology.

Strange repetition of the rose, And strange reiterated call Of bird and insect, man and maid, Is that the meaning of it all?

There are also various other reasons why repetition and apparent tautology are frequently beauties of the highest kind.

Fifty repetitions of the new sweetness, fifty deliberate rollings of it under the tongue, is, I understand, the minimum duration of such, before the passion is worked off, and the dream-child really breathing free of its dream-parent.

" (For the benefit of any feminine reader of this veracious history I should say that the repetition which she has just noticed is not an accident, but has been carefully set down.

The repetition of the words "such a" is probably a clerical error: the Alexandrine is clumsy.

Repetition is the rule of Arab education as it is of Arab ornament.

My unceasing repetitions of (to them abominable) papa Dugrand caused my comrades to call me a bore.

Repetition of operation becomes an automatic (habit) action in which man accomplishes the most work for a given expenditure of energy.