1 When we had our pageant, the grass didn't recover till autumn.
2 I have had a shock," he said, "and I shall never recover.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER REMARKABLE INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON 3 A few minutes pause having been allowed, that the combatants and their horses might recover breath, Prince John with his truncheon signed to the trumpets to sound the onset.
4 And having said so, with a degree of tenderness and consciousness which Fanny had never seen in her before, and now thought only too becoming, she turned away for a moment to recover herself.
5 He turned away to recover himself, and when he spoke again, though his voice still faltered, his manner shewed the wish of self-command, and the resolution of avoiding any farther allusion.
6 The old man had gained the street corner, before he began to recover the effect of Toby Crackit's intelligence.
7 The young lady, making an effort to recover her cheerfulness, strove to play some livelier tune; but her fingers dropped powerless over the keys.
8 With a caution, backed by many oaths, to make no more efforts to go out that night, Sikes left her to recover at leisure and rejoined Fagin.
9 These words appeared to be addressed to the young lady, and were perhaps uttered with the view of affording Nancy time to recover herself.
10 I lost the boy, and no efforts of mine could recover him.
11 She was sinking under a painful and incurable disease, and wished to recover him before she died.
12 She was ashamed of herself, quite ashamed of being so nervous, so overcome by such a trifle; but so it was, and it required a long application of solitude and reflection to recover her.
13 She had much to recover from, before she could move.
14 She paused a moment to recover from the emotion of hearing herself so spoken of.
15 A man does not recover from such a devotion of the heart to such a woman.