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Example sentences for "recurs"

Lexicographically close words:
recurrence; recurrences; recurrent; recurrently; recurring; recurso; recurved; recurving; recusancy; recusant
  1. It is also one of active feudal strife and anarchy, lasting almost a generation, of the loosening of the bonds of government, and of suffering by the mass of the nation, the like of which never recurs in the whole of that history.

  2. This is the one most marked trait which constantly recurs throughout the events of his long reign.

  3. In the epic this name recurs as that of a mighty king who ruled to the east of the Ganges in the city of Ayodhya (Oudh) and was the founder of the Solar race.

  4. The plot is unconnected with mythology, but is based on an historical or epic tradition, which recurs in a somewhat different form in Somadeva's Kathasaritsagara.

  5. This episode is peculiarly important from a critical point of view, as the legend recurs not only in the Ramayana, but also in the Padma Purana, the Skanda Purana, and a number of other sources.

  6. Sarama recurs as the name of a demoness who consoles Sita in her captivity.

  7. This argument recurs continually in works of the protectionist school.

  8. It frequently recurs at regular intervals of time.

  9. It frequently recurs in those liable to it and often occurs on both sides of the mouth at once.

  10. Everything connected with this house recurs to me as eminently pleasant, old-fashioned, and very respectable.

  11. He continually recurs to me while reading Icelandic sagas, and as a kind of man who would now be quite out of the age anywhere.

  12. The question recurs with overwhelming force, if we still follow the same train of reflection: "What is man, that God is mindful of him?

  13. I did not soon recover from the shock caused by this scene; indeed it still recurs to me, with most gloomy impressions.

  14. Another tale recurs to me, of those which were frequently told us to make us feel the importance of unreserved confession.

  15. The memorable fancy-ball given here at a comparatively late period, but during the Sheriff's lifetime, recurs as we go by.

  16. The character of Herod is comparatively easy to understand, for it is elemental and one that constantly recurs in history.

  17. The note of doubt in the opening section of 30 is closely akin to that which recurs in the book of Ecclesiastes.

  18. The story of the secret way recurs in Lennox MSS.

  19. This is not in the English, but recurs in the end of Crawford's Deposition, 'I thought that she was carrying him away rather as a prisoner than as a husband.

  20. The writer again and again recurs to her remorse.

  21. But it is in the Cabala, still more than in the Talmud, that the Judaic dream of world-domination recurs with the greatest persistence.

  22. This charge of black magic recurs all through the history of Europe from the earliest times.

  23. Again, in notes on other personages the name of Falk recurs with the same insistence on his importance as a high initiate: Leman, pupil of Falk.

  24. It is only a mannerism such as another, but it recurs with sufficient frequency to have an appreciable effect on the mind.

  25. The probabilities seem in favor of its being a genuine human fossil, and the question recurs as to its character and the presumable age of the deposits from which it came.

  26. The same idea recurs in the reports of travellers and the writings of men of science, but here it is the storms, or more often the lack of wind, the viscid water or vast shoals, that check and appall the mariner.

  27. In doubt and anxiety, he reflects and re-reflects, recurs to the associations of his past life, and hesitates.

  28. If you will take up the epistle, and run your eye over it at your leisure, I think you will be surprised to find how, in all connections, and linked with every sort of blessing and good as its condition, there recurs that phrase.

  29. Now, that thought recurs in other places in the Apostle's writings, somewhat modified in expression.

  30. The picture of the prowling dogs recurs with deepened scorn and firmer confidence that they will hunt for their prey in vain.

  31. Again he recurs to the one thought which flows like a river of light through all the psalm--that all his help is in God.

  32. The comparison of man to a loathsome viper is one of the metaphors to which Edwards most habitually recurs (e.

  33. In this voluminous outpouring of matter the machinery is varied with wonderful fertility of invention, but one sentiment recurs very frequently.

  34. The same appeal recurs after the exile in the last prophets, Zechariah(780) and Malachi.

  35. Sidenote: It recurs in all understanding of perception.

  36. Perhaps all that recurs is a vague sense of the environment, in nature and in discourse, in which that object lies.

  37. By analysing what we find and abstracting what recurs from its many vain incidents we can discover a sustained structure within, which enables us to foretell what we may find in future.

  38. But when a phenomenon actually recurs the generalisations founded on it are reinforced and kept identical, and prejudices so sustained by events make man's knowledge of nature.

  39. It recurs in all understanding of perception.


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