Recur

Indeed, in our poetry and folk songs intoxication occupies a recurring role as a facilitator of love and spiritual enlightenment. What? Is it not a sin? Yes, it certainly is—and so, for that matter, is coveting thy neighbor's wife. I see you smile; we understand one another, then.

The bullet had grazed the optic nerve. […] The oculist had warned him that the trouble might recur, that he ought to have remained under observation. Well, it had recurred about four months ago.

The Saturday at night before he ſuffered, he dream'd his chaine vvas brought to the Counter gate, that the next day being Sunday, he ſhould be had to Nevvgate and burned at Smithfield the Munday enſuing, vvhich after many frightfull avvakings, ſtill recurring to his troubled fancy, he aroſe, and communicating vvhat he had dreamed to his Chamber-fellovv, fell to his old exerciſe of reading and praying.

[…] Men that are of a talkative and melancholy temper see any kind of visions. And this, especially because they have so deep a resentment [i.e., impression] of the most affecting objects, whose images therefore recur to the fancy when they are asleep, in most distinct and lively figures.

[T]he Idea I have once had vvill be unchangeably the ſame as long as it recurs the ſame in my Memory; but vvhen another different from that comes into my Mind, it vvill not be that.

Zan[ga]. Carry you Goodneſs then to ſuch Extreme, / So blinded to the Faults of him you love, / That you perceive not he is jealous? / Leon[ora]. Heav'ns! / And yet a Thouſand Things recur that ſvvear it.

Though Jones had never ſeen Mrs. Fitzpatrick, yet he had heard that a Couſin of Sophia vvas married to a Gentleman of that Name. This, hovvever, in the present Tumult of his Mind, never once recurred to his Memory: […]

[H]e may therefore be juſtly numbered among the benefactors of mankind, vvho contracts the great rules of life into ſhort ſentences, vvhich may be eaſily impreſſed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind, vvhenever occaſion calls them into uſe.

[E]very idea of the impropriety of her being found there, recurring to her mind, the few minutes in which they continued together, were some of the most uncomfortable of her life.

When thou, departed vision! dear and bright, / Recurrest to mine eyes—and with old lays, / Such as thou sangs't me in our innocent days, / Bringest, in vivid power, the moments past; […]

Till this moment, I had been so intent on watching them, […] I had half-forgotten my own wretched position: now it recurred to me.

But ill for him who, bettering not with time, / Corrupts the strength of heaven-descended Will, / And ever weaker grows thro' acted crime, / or seeming-genial venial fault, / Recurring and suggesting still!

The song of the Jubjub recurred to their minds, / And cemented their friendship for ever!

The position struck me as hopeless, and poor Brierly's saying recurred to me, 'Let him creep twenty feet underground and stay there.'

Just after Edward [Brittain]'s return to France, I had the first of those dreams which were to recur, in slightly different variations, at frequent intervals for nearly ten years.

An image from the dream recurred to him. […] Almost all had been undistorted memories of his childhood, memories never once recalled before.

But firſt I ſhall recurre, and give a touch upon the nature of Gravity.

But before vve proceed to vvhat paſſed on his Arrival in the Kitchin, it vvill be neceſſary to recur to vvhat had there happened ſince Partridge had firſt left it on his Maſter's Summons.

Again am I recurring to a ſubject I vviſh to quit. But ſince I cannot, I vvill give my pen its courſe—Pen, take thy courſe.

He was in high spirits; as ready to talk and laugh as ever, and seemed delighted to speak of his former visit, and recur to old stories: and he was not without agitation.

I returned home, not disappointed, for I have said that I had long considered those authors useless whom the professor reprobated; but I returned, not at all the more inclined to recur to these studies in any shape.

I'm sorry to say any ill of your friends, and the thing was a long time ago; besides which there was nothing to make me recur to it.

And Mrs Durrani? Lata said the two words aloud, appraising them. What of her? And of Kabir's brother and the sister he had 'until last year'? Over the last few days her mind had time and again recurred to these elusive beings and those few elusive comments.

[I]f his Grace vvere minded, or vvould intend to do a thing inique or injuſt, there vvere no need to recurr unto the Pope's Holineſe for doing thereof.

And surely here I admire the goodnes of God towards our Nation, that he would Saint Austin [Augustine of Hippo] should enquire such small matters of S. Gregory, and that his questions should remaine to our dayes, both to shew vs by our first Apostle what account we should make of the resolution of the Sea Apostolick, and […] in all difficulties recur to her, […]

Others have been ſo blind in deducing the originall of things, or delivering their ovvne beginnings, that vvhen it hath fallen into controverſie they have not recurred unto Chronologie or the records of time, but betaken themſelves unto probabilities, and the conjecturalities of Philoſophy.

If to avoid Succeſſion in eternal Exiſtence, they recur to the Punctum Stans [standing point] of the Schools, I ſuppoſe they vvill thereby very little mend the matter, or help us to a more clear and poſitive Idea of infinite Duration, there being nothing more inconceivable to me, than Duration vvithout Succeſſion.

The barbarian […] acts from affections unacquainted vvith forms; and vvhen provoked, or vvhen engaged in diſputes, he recurs to the ſvvord, as the ultimate means of deciſion, in all queſtions of right.

RECOURSE; is the right competent to an assignee or disponee, under the warrandice of the transaction, to recur on the vendor or cedent for relief, in case of eviction or of defects inferring warrandice.

She only replied with a laugh, and he evidently deemed futile the bid for sympathy on the score of religious or irreligious fellowship, for he recurred to it no more.

[He] had found the place, even in company, such a refuge from the obsession of his problem that, with renewed pressure from that source, he had not unnaturally recurred to a remedy that seemed so, for the moment, to meet his case.

One-third can be written in decimal form as 0.3333 …, or point three-recurring.

CIRCULATING Decimals, or Recurring Decimals, are those that consist of a repetition of a small number of digits, as 646464, &c. 4127127127, &c.; in fact, every decimal that is not finite, is a circulating decimal, or is such, that if continued far enough, the same figures will again recur; but it is only those, of which the periods of circulation consist of a few figures, that receive generally the definition of circulating decimals.

[H]er conſtancy beganne to ſtagger, and her honeſty had enough to doe, recurring to her eyes to containe them, leſt they ſhould giue any demonſtration of the amorous compaſsion vvhich Lotharios vvordes and teares had ſtirred in her breaſt.

Cycle of the Sun is the revolution of 28 years, Cycle of the Moon the revolution of 19 years, in which time both of their motions recur to the ſame point.

For as in the body natural the amputation and dock of one member forces the bloud and ſpirits that therein reſide vvhen fixed, to recur to the heart, and there to ſuccour it in the abſence of that part, ſo is the body politique, in this ſenſe Intentio ſupplere debet defectum [the intention must supply the deficiency], […]

[H]ovvever vve toil, or vvhereſoever vve vvander, our fatigued vviſhes ſtill recur to home for tranquillity, vve long to die in that ſpot vvhich gave us birth, and in that pleaſing expectation opiate every calamity.

I contrived for ſome time to carry on ſomething like a converſation vvith this vvoman, but vvas ſoon glad to put an end to it by recurring to my bottle.

After throwing out this pregnant hint, Mr Poyser recurred to his pipe and his silence, looking at Hetty to see if she did not give some sign of having renounced her ill-advised wish.

Mrs Farebrother recurred to her knitting with a dignified satisfaction in her neat little effort at oratory, […]

[T]he City grevv very populous, many recurring thither from all parts of Attica, for liberty and ſecurity, […]

If half the latitude of the firſt vvave be an aliquant part of the ſtring, after the motion has been propagated to the fartheſt extremity, there vvill be a nevv ſeries of leſs vvaves, recurring in a contrary direction.