Afterwards, when we were lying side by side in camp, Pita reverted to the matter as a pleasant episode.
But the Ngatewhatua declared that, also in accordance with Maori usage, the conquerors having never taken possession of the district nor resided on any part of the block, it reverted to its original owners, the Ngatewhatua.
It revertedalso to those who might, in any way, have suffered at his hands.
In the silence and solitude of his prison, Lord Kilmarnock's recollection reverted to those whom human nature were shortly to be left to buffet with the storms of their hard fate.
Many became annexed by religious establishments, while others reverted to the crown and were disposed of by various grants.
It was not until nearly bedtime that Mrs. Mowgelewsky reverted to that part of Miss Bailey's conversation immediately preceding the discovery of the loss of the purse.
All that night and all the succeeding day Miss Bailey's imagination reverted again and again to the two little ones keeping house in Mrs. Mowgelewsky's immaculate apartment.
True, less ferocious proposals were made, by which it was suggested to send them over to France; but when it became evident that they would return, the thoughts of the company reverted to murder.
In 1865 the King of the Belgians died, and Claremont revertedto the Crown.
He reverted to the question as he had put it to himself, before first he recognized Eleanor.
She had reverted for a time to shameless childishness; she had hidden her stockings among the reeds of the bank, and she was running to and fro, from star-fish to razor shell and from cockle to weed.
Somerset soon found that whatever turn the conversation took, Sir William invariably reverted to this topic of frugality.
As soon as she had welcomed him she reverted at once to the subject.
Now and again his thoughts reverted to the garden, and to the woman who had made it.
Once, in her reverie, her thoughts reverted to another Sunday when Hodder had sat, an honoured guest, in the chair which Mr. Langmaid now occupied .
The banker's manner suddenly changed, reverted to what it had been.
The colonies were subjected to a government which they did not elect or approve; and the management of their affairs consequently reverted inevitably and rightly to the body of the people themselves.
By the terms of the treaty of peace which Charles was obliged by his own parliament to make, all conquests were mutually restored, and New York consequently reverted to England.
She only knew that the Carnaby estate, which would in the usual course havereverted to her, had been unexpectedly willed to the son of a man its late owner had disinherited, on conditions.
Immediately upon his fall in 1777 the Portuguese government reverted to most of the old abuses, but the economic impulse did not at once die out.
For the time being, these predatory Paulistas almost reverted to the nomadic stage.
This was not a cylinder like the Zeppelin, but reverted to the cigar shape and contained about the same amount of gas as the Zeppelin type.
Then involuntarily, his thoughtsreverted to the "kiddie.
John Stuart, "as a token of the great services which he had rendered in war to that King," had reverted to the crown of France.
On emerging from such a chaos of turmoil and commotion, in that calm and holy retreat, her thoughts reverted to the pure and innocent period of her youth, to the brilliant and tumultuous past, to the sorrowful and disenchanted present.
God purged her of these things to some extent through godly preachers and reformers; but she was not purged in heart and quickly reverted to the things Divinely proscribed.
His thoughts, with the rapidity of lightning, reverted to Rev.
In such a case, the purchaser was to hold it until the jubilee year, when the land reverted without compensation to the family of the poor man who had transferred it.
He reverted to the field-glass, and was surprised to find the ants had vanished from all the exposed surfaces of the deck.
After shaving, my mind reverted to the acting I had seen, and I entertained myself before the cheval glass with some imitations of Jafferay's more exaggerated gestures.
My mind reverted to the three old and distorted people downstairs, and I tried to keep it upon that topic.
In his absence Mrs. Cave's mind reverted to the topic of the crystal, and the methods of expenditure suitable to a windfall of five pounds.
In the evening he would talk about these new orchids to his friends, and over and over again he reverted to his expectation of something strange.
But the north of France is really uninteresting country, and after a time Fanny reverted to Hare's Walks, and Helen initiated lunch.
I could not resolve the question, but insensibly reverted to the death of my father.
The park was then let to various leaseholders, the last of whom was the Duke of Portland, whose lease ended in 1811, when the land reverted to the Crown.
All the way to Spring Pond she held them so, and her enchanted eyes reverted to them whenever she could bring herself to look anywhere except at him.
His absent eyes revertedto her: "I think I'll go, mother.
Then my thoughts reverted to the number of living things I had myself to dread, separated as I was from society where men unite for mutual protection.
Various causes combined to make the idea of giving the first performances of the Ring in this theatre an utter impracticability, and Wagner reverted to his old pet idea of building a theatre for himself.
He never reverted to this rather bald method of filling up time while his people are being got on the stage: compare this passage with, for instance, Hagen's call in The Dusk of the Gods.
Wide awake as I was, it seemed to me as if I, too, had witnessed the strange scene, and my thoughts reverted involuntarily to the Black Plague.
The second involved a claim for the Holy See on England as a fief of the Church--an intimation that the King of England had forfeited his crown and that his subjects' allegiance had reverted to their Supreme Lord.
The Emperor, encouraged by the intimation that Wolsey was wavering, reverted to his previous hope.
The management of the case having reverted to Wolsey, fresh instructions were sent to Sir Gregory Casalis, the regular English agent at the Papal court, to wait on Clement.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reverted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
