36 collocations for recurred

Like a lightning flash there recurred to him her last words: "And some daythe Valley of Silent Men will awaken."

It contains eight "leading motives," which recur thirty times in course of the opera; and the dramatic recitatives are sometimes quite in the "Wagnerian" manner.

There is a thought constantly recurring throughout his writingsin his childish as in his most mature workthe thought of the beauty and the supernal happiness of soft and quiet death.

And there recurred to him the conversation he overheard at the monastery, when one said,"and once Sir John gets to this country."

[B.C. 52 (a.u. 702)] [-47-] Nothing good resulted from this, and among other things the market recurring every ninth day was held on the very first of January.

John Home, in his notes of Hume's talk in the last weeks of his life, says: 'He recurred to a subject not unfrequent with himthat is, the design to ruin him as an author, by the people that were ministers at the first publication of his History, and called themselves Whigs.'

She's left the house," she said, recurring dread and anxiety in her voice.

In the intervening night there again recurred to the directors the enormity of the outrage to which they had been subjected.

Since 1780, they have diminished in numbers more than one half, and frequently recurring epidemics and famines will soon reduce them to a comparatively weak and unimportant tribe, which will finally be absorbed in the growing Russian population of the peninsula.

In the following Lessons, are exemplified most of the Exceptions, some of the Notes, and many of the Observations, under the preceding Rules of Syntax; to which Exceptions, Notes, or Observations, the learner may recur, for an explanation of whatsoever is difficult in the parsing, or peculiar in the construction, of these examples or others.

After having been for some time troubled by the rappings she began to feel involuntary motions in her right hand which increased to constantly recurring violent exercise of the muscles, when it occurred to her from the character of the motions that the hand wanted a pencil to write and she laid paper and a pencil on the table.

But whichever view we take; whether we suppose all things collectively to oscillate between recurring extremes of "sameness" and "otherness;" or every stage of the wave of progress from crest to trough, to be simultaneously manifested in the universe at all times, the old difficulty of "the beginning" will force itself upon us.

This paragraph began, in the Englishman's Magazine, with the following sentence: "We ourselfPETERin whose inevitable NET already Managers and R.A.s lie caught and flounderingand more peradventure shall flounderwere, in the humble times to which we have been recurring, small Fishermen indeed, essaying upon minnows; angling for quirks, not men.

And still, after all these years, the fatherly friar often fondly recurred to a time when he had first seemed to catch some dim, shadowed glimpse of that inner self which Fra Paolo so rarely expressed.

We are to be swayed by recurring gusts of fashion, and not inspired by a fixed ideal.

Morse refers to this in a letter of June 25, 1864, to his old friend George Wood: "To you, as well as to myself, the rapid progress of the Telegraph throughout the world must seem wonderful, and with me you will, doubtless, often recur to our friend Annie's inspired message'What hath God wrought.'

GEYSER, fountains which from time to time, under the expansion of steam, eject columns of steam and hot water, and which are met with in Iceland, North America, and New Zealand, of which the most remarkable is the Great Geyser, 70 m. N. of Reikiavik, in Iceland, which ejects a column of water to 60 ft. in height, accompanied with rumblings underground; these eruptions will continue some 15 minutes, and they recur every few hours.

"We never recur an idea, without acquiring some combination.

p. 4: The legend of St. George came to us from the East; where, under various forms, as Apollo and the Python, as Bellerophon and the Chimaera, as Perseus and the Sea-monster, we see perpetually recurring the mythic allegory by which was figured the conquest achieved by beneficent Power over the tyranny of Wickedness, and which reappears in Christian art in the legends of St. Michael and half a hundred other saints.

There recurred to me the mornings and evenings in the Orient when I had seen the Parsees, the fire-worshippers of India, offer their devotions, standing or kneeling on their rugs on the seashore.

The normal is the being who harmonizes with his environment, and yet reacts with it because of recurring needs within him.

As he entered upon the body of his letter, his eyes still recurred to its opening line: 'Dear Madame de Pastourelles.'

It was not loud, and I could not distinguish a word, if it was a woman's voice; but there were recurring phrases of sound and snatches of rhythm that reached me, which suggested the idea of complaint, and sometimes, I thought, of passionate grief and despair.

For instance, these pages contain a sort of recurring protest against the boast of certain writers that they are merely recent.

The Constitution binds us all, North and South: then recurs the question, What is the meaning of its provisions?

36 collocations for  recurred