Citations:recover

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English citations of recover

Recuperate[edit]

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  • 1843Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
    Although well used to ghostly company by this time, Scrooge feared the silent shape so much that his legs trembled beneath him, and he found that he could hardly stand when he prepared to follow it. The Spirit paused a moment, as observing his condition, and giving him time to recover.

Get back[edit]

  • 1611, The Holy Bible, [] (King James Version), London: [] Robert Barker, [], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 30:18, column 1:
    And Dauid recouered all that the Amalekites had caried away: and Dauid reſcued his two wiues.
  • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
    Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.
  • 1979 December 16, Ching-kuo Chiang, “Chairman Chiang Ching-kuo's Opening Address to the KMT Plenum”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly]‎[1], volume XX, number 49, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 1:
    All the comrades of the Party must strive with maximum courage and unswerving determination, together with our compatriots of the whole country, to carry out our historic task of recovering the mainland and reshaping the Chinese nation.