Herodotus says of the Neurians, that among Scythians and Greeks settled in Scythia they pass for magicians, because once a year every Neurian becomes a wolf for a few days, and thenresumes the human form.
It shews you how well candles may be preserved; for though it is cracked about and broken a good deal, yet, when lighted, it goes on burning regularly, and the tallow resumes its natural condition as soon as it is fused.
As soon as the contact is broken, the wire resumes its former appearance; and now that we make contact again, you perceive the glow as before.
Then the crowd resumes its silent observation from the four cardinal points.
Then he resumes his robe, and we re-ascend the mountain.
When once reduced to a state of domestication, the goat seldom resumes its original wildness.
Uncle Thomas resumes his Stories about the Instinct of Animals.
The fish is drawn up, the hook rebaited and the youthful fisherman resumes his pleasures on the ice.
At first it is quite elastic, then as the heat increases it becomes soft, then the curing begins and it again becomes elastic, so that, if a point of a knife blade is pressed against it, it resumes its shape when the point is removed.
When the monks have vanished, and their voices have died away in the distance beneath the echoing vault of the chapel, Chopin recovers himself with a shudder and resumes his sad dreaming, symbolized by a return of the first melody.
The bullet which preserves the perpendicular of my cabin-lamp is at last still, I congratulate myself; and with it my optic nerve resumesits proper and steady function.
The chubby babe, a sort of India rubber bag, resumes its original volume without having suffered any harm, as its appetite proves.
Then it resumes its sober flight, its long investigations and its sudden blows with the tip of its belly against the layer of earth.
The skin fills out, distends and resumes the shape of the larva, without there being an outlet anywhere for the compressed air.
If it finds the spot, it makes its way in and resumes the work of eating; but its future is jeopardized from this time forward, for the game, now perhaps tackled at inopportune points, is liable to go bad.
Not one resumes possession of an unoccupied sheath.
Should the instrument not penetrate, it retreats into its sheath and the insect resumes its scrutiny of the cocoon, sounding it point by point with the tips of its antennae.
The hydrocephalous oneresumes her performance more vigorously than ever; she inflates and deflates her frontal knob.
The Most Excellent Master now resumes his seat and says, "Brethren, attend to giving the signs.
Violet, who has almost lost her temper, controls herself with an effort; unclenches her fingers; and resumes her seat with studied tranquillity and reasonableness.
He turns haughtily away and resumes his presidential seat].
Ann hastily resumesher seat, and looks as unconcerned as possible.
Straker calmly resumes the melody and finishes it.
Talk sense; or else go and waste someone else's time: I have something better to do than listen to your fooleries [he positively kicks his way to his table and resumes his seat].
We were all very sorry to hear of Sir Victor Catheron's death," Charley resumes gravely.
He reaches St Louis in safety, and resumes the labor of his life.
Had I belonged to our grand society, the case had been different," resumes Maria.
Mr. McArthur returns his salutation, contemplates him doubtingly for a minute, then resumes his fussing and brushing.
Clipped this from an English paper," resumes the Hon.
And here she remains, until the anguish of her joy runs out, and her mindresumes its wonted calm.
Now he pauses at a window and looks impatiently out, then frisks his fingers through his crispy hair and resumes his pacing.
A charge," resumes the Judge, "quite sufficient to warrant me in committing you to durance vile, might be preferred.
No one paid it the least regard," resumes Madame Flamingo, becoming weaker and weaker.
The Dutch are a different sort of animal; the fellows are thinkers," resumes the Judge.
The rebuffed male resumes his post as a watcher in the sun; and the housewife stows her provisions.
She resumes her marching and countermarching no less boldly and swiftly than before.
The Lycosa then closes her bundle of poisoned daggers and resumes her natural pose, standing on her eight legs; but, at the slightest attempt at aggression on the Wasp's part, she resumes her threatening position.
From time to time one of them alights on the ground, feels the sand with his antennae and seems to be enquiring into what is happening in the depths of the soil; then he resumes his flight, alternately coming and going.
Undiscouraged by all her set-backs, the Wasp picks herself up, brushes her wings and resumes her attack upon the colossus, almost always by mounting the larva's hinder end.
Nothing is of any use; it obstinately turns over and resumes its dorsal progress.
EMMA lets him in, closes door, and, leaving him standing in the middle of the room, resumes work on her knees at the box.
EMMA resumes work with her back towards him and waits for him to speak.
Crosses before table for nightdresses, takes the nightdresses and resumes packing.
Here the first Darwesh resumes his address to his three companions.
Here the khwaja resumes his own story to Azad Bakht.
The king here resumes his address to the four darweshes.
Overpowered by his exertions, he lays his head back on his pillows and closes his eyes for not more than a minute, when he again resumes his watching of the weather and his attention to the muffled sounds.
She smiles, looks very handsome, takes his arm, lounges with him for a quarter of a mile, is very much bored, and resumes her seat in the carriage.
The trooper retires to a distant part of the room and resumes his curious inspection of the boxes, strong and otherwise.
Mr. Guppy, noiselessly tapping on the window-sill, resumes his whispering in quite a light-comedy tone.
The masterresumes his march, and the man resumes his preparation of breakfast.
This money of the Europeans may possibly furnish him with the means of a happy and peaceful subsistence in remoter regions; and he quits the plough, resumes his native arms, and returns to the wilderness forever.
Strict as this obligation is, the government of the State imposes it in principle only, and in its performance the township resumes all its independent rights.
As if discussing the matter in her mind, her faceresumes a contemplative seriousness.
A few moments more, and she resumes a calm appearance, looks resolutely upon her auditors, with indignation and contempt pictured in her countenance.
Fetter, with great gravity, bowing to one side and then to the other, as he resumes his seat on the tribune.
The Elder very methodically puts the interrupting cat upon the floor, and resumes his seat.
As the officials advance his face brightens up with animation; his spirit resumes its fiery action, and with a flashing knife, no one knows by whom provided, he bids them advance no further.
Anthony pauses for a moment, sharpens his eloquence with another drop of whiskey, and resumes his discourse.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "resumes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
