Both Uses of
recur
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- But he did not start at the thought recurring to him, for he knew, he had felt beforehand, that it must come back, he was expecting it; besides it was not only yesterday's thought.†
Chpt 1.4recurring = happening repeatedly
- He was haunted by day-dreams and such strange day-dreams; in one, that kept recurring, he fancied that he was in Africa, in Egypt, in some sort of oasis.†
Chpt 1.6 *
Definition:
to happen repeatedly or a second time