All 4 Uses of
recur
in
Anna Karenina
- He vividly recalled all the constantly recurring instances of inevitable necessity for lying and deceit, which were so against his natural bent.†
Part 2 *
- It was the time when there comes a brief pause in the toil of the fields before the beginning of the labors of harvest—every year recurring, every year straining every nerve of the peasants.†
Part 3
- The word talent, by which they meant an inborn, almost physical, aptitude apart from brain and heart, and in which they tried to find an expression for all the artist had gained from life, recurred particularly often in their talk, as though it were necessary for them to sum up what they had no conception of, though they wanted to talk of it.†
Part 5
- In the morning she was waked by a horrible nightmare, which had recurred several times in her dreams, even before her connection with Vronsky.†
Part 7
Definition:
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(recur) to happen repeatedly or a second time