There is a constant struggle on the part of nature to build up and beautify, to strengthen and recuperate, against the results of human excesses.

Recover, regain, retrieve, recoup, rally, recuperate.

"Sir," it ran, "since you no doubt will wish to recuperate from the fatigues of the campaign so unfortunately ended, and as there is no place where you can do this so well as at Riverview, I hasten to assure you that the place is entirely at your service.

Oklahoma, though, and the Indian Territory, have been too much for pa, and they sent him on to Kansas City to recuperate in a hospital for a week, while the show does Kansas to a finish, and makes a triumphal entry into Missouri.

If a strenuous effort is not made to give the adrenals an opportunity to recuperate, or if adjustment on the part of the other glands does not occur, this stage of intermittent and remittent adrenal inadequacy gives way in turn to the state of permanent adrenal insufficiency.

The settlement of the Balkans described in this article will probably last for at least a generation, not because all the parties to the settlement are content, but because it will take at least a generation for the dissatisfied States to recuperate.

However, with a reduced population and a bankrupt treasury, she will need many years to recuperate before she can hope to upset the new arrangement.

"You'll have a week's furlough to recuperate, Constable Beresford.

Those who had participated in the air raid on the bridge were given a day off, so as to recuperate.

To recuperate, he went to Venice, where he died on Feb. 13, 1882.

Later he came to us to recuperate, and was the most exacting and profane man we ever waited on.

And then he went away, as on this occasion, to recuperate in his own manner.

After that he rests for a fortnight and recuperates, and returnsto take up a will case turning upon the toy rabbits and suchlike trifles which entertained the declining years of a nonagenarian.

The unwilling bridegroom must be alone to recuperate.

Here amid the hills he loves, with the brook of his boyhood days again singing him to sleep, he rests and recuperates for the coming winter's campaign.

Something of the splendid physical health I brought back with me from the Wilderness helped me, no doubt, through the attack of pneumonia and pleurisy, which released me in the early spring, when I was ordered off to Florida to recuperate.

And then women can't recuperate.

My rotten imaginings have proven too mucheven for meand the doctors sent me West to recuperate," The artist could find no words that would answer.

The square, rather brutal, face was relaxed as if in sleep, but here was the type of man who would recuperate with great speed.

This desire to recuperate controlled my conduct for a while, but its influence gradually diminished as life became more and more monotonous.

It is marvellous how easily one recuperates in the open air.

Time was required to enable us to recuperate.

"The victory may be regarded as an opportunity to gain time for the South to recuperate, if we make prudent demonstrations; but an actual advance does not appear possible.

" "It is in Crocelle," he writes a little later, "that you will make people happy by your presence, and where you will recuperate your health, regain your gaiety, and forget an Irishman; and a holy Bishop, more worthy of your affection, on account of the deep attachment he has for you, will take his place.

It gave her the opportunity to entertain pleasantly and informally; it was a capital summer-home for her two boys; it was in the centre of an agreeable neighborhood; and above all, it gave her yearly-exhausted purse time to recuperate and swell again before the winter's drain.