All 4 Uses of
recur
in
Moby Dick
- But at length all the past night's events soberly recurred, one by one, in fixed reality, and then I lay only alive to the comical predicament.†
Chpt 4-6 *
- This was strangely heightened at times by the ragged Elijah's diabolical incoherences uninvitedly recurring to me, with a subtle energy I could not have before conceived of.†
Chpt 28-30
- First: Though most men have some vague flitting ideas of the general perils of the grand fishery, yet they have nothing like a fixed, vivid conception of those perils, and the frequency with which they recur.†
Chpt 43-45
- But, besides the application to him of the generic remark above, this carpenter of the Pequod was singularly efficient in those thousand nameless mechanical emergencies continually recurring in a large ship, upon a three or four years' voyage, in uncivilized and far-distant seas.†
Chpt 106-108
Definition:
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(recur) to happen repeatedly or a second time