All 3 Uses of
recur
in
Dubliners
- Melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament, he thought, but it was a melancholy tempered by recurrences of faith and resignation and simple joy.†
Chpt 8
- Gabriel went on more boldly: "I feel more strongly with every recurring year that our country has no tradition which does it so much honour and which it should guard so jealously as that of its hospitality.†
Chpt 15 *
- "But yet," continued Gabriel, his voice falling into a softer inflection, "there are always in gatherings such as this sadder thoughts that will recur to our minds: thoughts of the past, of youth, of changes, of absent faces that we miss here tonight.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(recur) to happen repeatedly or a second time