If the task be a difficult one at any time, its difficulty, certainly, is not diminished when a frequent recurrence to the same theme has left one nothing new to say.
She has been alone all day,' is a formula whose recurrence he has now learnt to dread.
It is a month to whoserecurrence Peggy has looked forward with dread: to her a month of anniversaries.
Margaret, struck by the recurrence of this phrase, to which on its first utterance she had paid little heed, as being the vague expression of Prue's girlish enthusiasm.
Their tenure was prolonged to 1879 and might have been continued beyond that date but for the recurrence of factional strife within their ranks.
Even on the fundamental question as to whether happiness is to be obtained by the restriction of desires or by the satisfaction which leads to their recurrence and increase, no principle can be extracted from utilitarian ethics.
The hymns of the Rig-Veda, for example, while not without traces of the other, yet indicate chiefly a worship of the powers of nature, connected with the regular recurrence of the seasons.
About 1880 a renascence began, particularly in the Middle States and New England; this revival was marked by a recurrence to the original social and educational objects.
But they would rather see the war continue for an indefinite time than run the risk of any compromise which would leave even the remotest chance of the recurrence of so terrible a scourge in the future.
It would be disastrous that the present period of stress and strain should not result in some settlement to prevent the recurrence of similar crises in the future.
The northern districts of China have for many centuries been liable to the frequent recurrence of earthquakes on a terribly vast and disastrous scale, but none of them equaled in its terrific proportions that of the year 1730.
Recurrence attends resumption of the habit, but some of its votaries contrive to continue to smoke just short of inducing serious discomfort.
Seven times--The idea of sacred numbers has already been noted, and the constant recurrence of seven in the present myth exemplifies well the importance of that number in Cherokee ritual.
This would be to make religion distasteful, if not odious, to our boys and girls, and lead them to dread the recurrence of a day which, to them at least, should be one of gladness and innocent enjoyment.
Education of the public to understand its relation to danger checked or removed, its responsibility for preventing a recurrence of the same danger, and the importance of promptly recognizing and checking similar danger elsewhere.
Zarathustra calls himself the advocate of the circle (the Eternal Recurrence of all things), and he calls this doctrine his abysmal thought.
The doctrine of the Eternal Recurrence appears for the last time here, in an art-form.
To prevent a recurrence of the disease, the government soon afterward took measures for vaccinating the western Indians.
They have no division of time into weeks, and their months are absolutely lunar, only twelve, however, being designated, which receive their names upon the recurrence of some prominent physical phenomenon.
There is such a principle as the spontaneous transference of myths, similar to the constant recurrence of the same old stories in our modern society under new scenery and with new characters.
Sidenote: Their perpetualrecurrence in the Greek world.
The recurrence of the 28th as an improper Olympiad shows that this number had some important place in the whole discussion.
Nearly that number was now collected in the galleries, which, on the recurrence of that great occasion, or of a royal marriage, were usually assigned to the spectators.
The recurrenceof that everlasting first pronoun becomes a real stumbling-block to one at last.
Indeed I should have felt far more impatient of delay had it not been for the continuance of foul weather, and recurrence of heavy storms, which made armies no less than individuals, impotent to act or move.
Occasionally he thought he noticed a recurrence of the same fragment.
He had escaped from a danger, and therecurrence of the particular danger was impossible.
Does the periodical recurrence of this great phenomenon depend upon the state of the atmosphere?
The analogies which we have just indicated, between the sea-coasts of New Andalusia and those of Peru, extend also to the recurrence of earthquakes, and the limits which nature seems to have prescribed to these phenomena.
It was natural that the words should recur to him vividly at that moment, but he accepted their recurrence as an undoubted inspiration from Heaven.
This song is, in measure, ten and eight syllables alternately; and the perpetual recurrence of the word brother-in-law seems intended to impress the idea of their relationship on the mind of the hearer.
There is thus in these great continental changes a law of recurrence and a law of progress; but as to the efficient causes of the phenomena we have as yet little information.
