From this day forth the uncertain and idle tenour of my life acquired some fixed aim;--my ideas recurred incessantly to the lovely maidens and the garden; thither daily flew my hopes and all my wishes.
At first, bewildered by his surroundings, he lay without moving; then gradually the occurrences of that dayrecurred to him.
I recurred to my ghost story,--my tiresome unlucky ghost story!
He appeared actually to regain strength and energy; his alarming fainting fits had not recurred since his nephew's visit, and Marie hoped he would be spared her longer than he believed.
He never recurred to her confession, but lavished on her, if possible, yet more endearing love, and constantly alluded to the intense happiness which her consent to be her cousin's bride had given him.
Those days at Biarritz recurred to him; how he would watch for her and go and meet her down towards Grande Plage, till, by degrees, it had become to both the most natural thing in the world.
In a flash there recurred to him every incident of those dramatic interviews with the Mephistophelean doctor.
The conversation he had overheard at the inn frequently recurred to him, and considerably damped his ardour.
It is needless to say that Constance de Tourville frequently recurred to his thoughts.
But the words of the Abbe Serapion concerning her recurred often to my memory, and never ceased to cause me uneasiness.
I would have been perfectly happy but for a cursed nightmare which recurred every night, and in which I believed myself to be a poor village cure, practising mortification and penance for my excesses during the day.
All the early hours of her love recurred to her with an aching remembrance, which had lost its shame and was sweet in its very pain.
And yet the valedictory words of the prelate recurred to her with haunting persistency.
The details of the volume recurred to his mind; the accurate description of the demons of the forest and the hill, and especially the horrible vampires enfolding the victim with outstretched wings.
Then he recurred to Durand; he remembered that not once on that day had he exchanged one single word, beyond the first and ordinary salutation, with Aurora.
Neither to books nor music, nor any art by which time is beguiled, she recurred for a momentary alleviation of the bitter feelings at her heart, or for a transient forgetfulness of their sting.
Mauleverer did not stay much longer with the judge; and Brandon, left alone, recurred once more to the, perusal of his letters.
The baronet soon recurred to the punishment inflicted by our hero on the intolerable vanity and presumption of the London buck.
Pitt now recurred to his plans of the year 1798 for assuring the repose of the Continent.
Once his thoughts recurred to his own conduct; he expressed heartfelt satisfaction at the innocency of his life, and declared that he died in perfect charity with all mankind.
But this evening an old superstition had strangely recurred to her.
This expression, which then recurred every moment in speeches and memorials, and which at present is so apt to excite laughter in the reader, begat at that time the deepest and most real consternation throughout the kingdom.
His conversation of the morning with Doctor Masham recurred to him.
And now the carriage was out of sight, and Venetia would have recurred to some of those resources which were ever at hand for the employment or amusement of her secluded life.
In the meantime Venetia, when alone, still recurred to that idea that was now so firmly rooted in her mind, that it was quite out of the power of any social discipline to divert her attention from it.
The memory of a thousand acts of kindness, of a thousand soft and soothing traits of affection, recurred to him with a freshness which startled as much as it pleased him.
At this moment the idea of her father irresistibly recurred to the imagination of Venetia.
Her past and peculiar life, and all its incidents, recurred to her with their accustomed order, vividness, and truth.
As Lord Cadurcis slowly directed his way through the woods and park of Cherbury, past years recurred to him like a faint yet pleasing dream.
The remembrancerecurred to me, as I looked at them, of Herbert Spencer's dictum on the subject of Anglo-Japanese marriages.
His thoughts wandered, and imaginings, and recollections of unpleasant things said or done recurred to him.
It happened almost every day that he stopped at the same place, and as particular spots often become associated with ideas that seem to belong to them, the same thought almost always recurred to his mind as he stood there.
His thoughts suddenly recurred to Gouache, and he laughed again at the young man's assurance.
Her story recurred to him; she was no longer a nameless jestress; an immeasurable distance separated a mere plaisant from the survivor of one of the noblest, if most unfortunate, families of France.
I had myself quoted the same speech; had recurred to it, and spoke with it open before me; and much of what I said was little more than a repetition from it.
I do not reckon myself among quite the oldest of the land, and yet it so happens that very recently I recurred to an exulting speech or oration of my own, in which I spoke of my country as consisting of nine millions of people.
As well as I recollect the course of his remarks, the honorable gentleman next recurred to the subject of the tariff.
This done, my thoughts recurred to the question already raised.
Odd things he had read recurred to him: trade unions refusing to allow discharged soldiers to join them; the reiterated threats of direct action.
At times the thought of the helpless man for whose death he had in one way been responsible recurred to him, and he shook his head angrily.
Many an expression of Fink's recurred to his mind, as well as that evening when young Rothsattel, in his boyish conceit, had spoken impertinently to the merchant.
Again there recurred to his mind that court of honor, his fellow-officers, and the unfortunate young man who had destroyed himself.
It roared and crunched and crackled all along; then it abated a little and recurred at intervals, as though in a regular rhythm; finally it passed over into a continuous roar.
The appearance recurred again and again, and at last I was quite certain that it really was land; but it must be very far away--at least 69 miles, I thought.
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