It is a fact, also, that if a boy repeats "Thanatopsis" while he is milking, that operation acquires a certain dignity.
Nothing is so tiresome as a kaleidoscope, though it never repeats itself.
Where the scenery is monotonous and repeats itself mile after mile and hour after hour, an intolerable weariness falls upon the company.
And what exquisite flattery is in that little word addressed to her, and with what sweet and meek triumph she repeats it to herself, with a feeling that is not altogether pity for those who still stand and wait.
Big John repeats incidents, dwells lengthily on minute particulars, stops to enjoy the scenery, and makes mountains of stories out of molehills of fact.
In Joseph Vance we have the growth of the soul from an environment of poverty and crime to the loftiest heights of nobility and self-denial; and the theme in the Waldstein Sonata triumphantlyrepeats the confidence of Dr.
With a view to enforce all this he repeats two well-known and indisputable propositions: "We brought nothing into the world" and "We can carry nothing out.
It repeats what St. Paul had already said to his beloved disciple by word of mouth, on the subject of Christian doctrine, and the necessity of keeping it pure.
The new dispensation in this respectrepeats the old.
After each verse the singer repeats again and again: Lo lo, lo lo, on three lingering notes that have the plaintive monotony of the chiming of bells where there are but three in the belfry.
He there repeats some information derived from the Abyssinian envoys who visited Pope Eugenius IV.
The number was no doubt in this case also a mere popular saw, and Friar Odoric repeats it.
Linschoten repeats the like, and one of his plates is entitled Habitus Abissinorum quibus loco Baptismatis frons inuritur.
Orsino; further, how he refers to music as 'the food of love,' and who it is that almost repeats the phrase.
Thus the nature of tragedy, as seen in the external conflict, repeats itself on each side of this conflict, and everywhere there is a spiritual value in both the contending forces.
In Ireland perhaps more than in most countries history repeats itself.
Words of Maret, at Dresden, in 1813; he probably repeatsone of Napoleon's figures.
Call on me too Shouldst thou need counsel, [Siegfried repeats the gesture with more violence.
Because every time that a child repeats a grade in school, that year's school work in the life of the child has cost the city or school community twice as much as it should.
Every child who repeats a grade is costing the city more than it should for its education.
But yet, I am sorry to say, history repeats itself.
But the indeterminate character of the infantile investigation repeats itself also in the fact that this reasoning never ends, and that the desired intellectual feeling of the solution constantly recedes into the distance.
A kind-hearted person readily falls a victim to this ruse, and as soon as he has passed by, the newsboy draws another copy from his hidden supply and repeats his importuning.
The House of Refuge repeats the same story: 63 per cent of those committed to that institution had been street traders, of whom 32 per cent were newsboys.
The eye repeats every day the finest eulogy on things--"He saw that they were good.
If he go to the factory, he shall find that his new stuff still repeats the scrolls and rosettes which are found on the interior walls of the pyramids of Thebes.
Within it, on a higher plane, all that was done in the trunkrepeats itself.
He repeats and repeats again, in the teeth of contradiction and disproof, what he wishes to have believed; and the result shows the wisdom of his proceeding.
Burke again repeats to Flood his wrath at Hamilton's provocation.
It is dreadful work, for he dictates as quickly as he can talk, and he never repeats anything.
It is the same when I hear some music--especially music which repeats itself again and again like some pieces of Passaniello.
Inexpressibly pathetic is the turn which she gives to the words of the song as she repeats the phrase of Brangäne: Is.
With dreadful irony she repeats the words with which she supposes Tristan will introduce her: "My lord and uncle!
Next he breaks off a small piece of tortilla, and repeats the same ceremony.
Then it is cured again, by the shaman, who on various occasions throughout its life repeats his curing, that the child may grow well and that no sickness or bad accidents may befall it.
This discourse repeats and enlarges the threats uttered at Bethlehem.
Every time it repeats this motion it seems to attach an additional hair, so that at the end of the four and twenty hours it has used many inches in length of cordage.
The vessels constitute a network, which extends and repeats itself in the thickness of the crust.
If it falls without accomplishing its object, it repeats the manœuvre until it is at last successful.
The author of the introductory sketches repeats twice that it is lovely, and we think we might repeat it twice more and it not be too often.
He goes over a large variety of topics, is not at all remarkable for order (as his opponent complains), and repeats himself more than once.
A great judge, who died but a few years ago, repeats language which would have been equally familiar to the lawyers of Edward or of James.
Raymond, in the above case, also repeats the thought and almost the words of Littleton, J.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "repeats" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
