Recurred

The question again recurred, to be answered only with groans. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Outbreaks of this strain recurred in 1970 and 1972, and may have produced a million fatalities worldwide — despite the fact that another flu eleven years earlier (see #6) is believed to have built up global resistance to the disease. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Each time that the phrase recurred to me I saw myself a sinner for whom no punishment was adequate. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Still, the name recurred; and like following golden threads through meshes of green -- all this life was gold and green -- they became fascinated by the tracing of it. ❋ Zamin Ki Dost (1905)

Each time that the phrase recurred to me I saw myself ❋ Leo Tolstoy (1869)

[159] "Ideas, and Shadows of Ideas": the phrase recurred often; and, as such mystic phrases will, fixed itself in Gaston's fancy, though not quite according to the mind of the speaker; accommodated rather to the thoughts which just then preoccupied his own. ❋ Walter Pater (1866)

My heart beat fast as the name recurred to my memory. ❋ Wilkie Collins (1856)

They now again recurred to the subject of the Countess and her letter. ❋ Eliza (1793)

A name has recurred over the course of many years. ❋ John Connolly (2009)

Again and again the idea recurred, that he loved another. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Then it struck me that this might be over-subtlety on my part, and the idea recurred when the question of our future plans cropped up, and hampered me in deciding on a course. ❋ Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 (1955)

This expression recurred incessantly in his conversations with those with whom he was familiar; and "when I had the honor of being sub-lieutenant" was often on his lips, and always in illustration of comparisons or exhortations to economy. ❋ Various (N/A)

I need not detail how the idea recurred a dozen times a day and brought the fear that she was going insane. ❋ Unknown (1921)

On going over the notes the next day, when the stenographic record had been copied on a typewriter, Sperry and I found that one word recurred frequently. ❋ Mary Roberts Rinehart (1917)

Reid's name recurred in the resolutions adopted by county meetings, but others were mentioned, notably James C. Dobbin in the East. ❋ Unknown (1916)

What he had seen first, in staring black-face type, was his own name leading the list of known dead, and what he saw now, broken up into choppy paragraphs and done in the nervous English of a trained reporter throwing a great news story together to catch an edition, but telling a clear enough story nevertheless, was a narrative in which his name recurred again and again. ❋ Unknown (1910)

Despite his better reason an indefinable sensation of uneasiness possessed him as the madman's sobbing out of the woman's name recurred to him. ❋ James Oliver Curwood (1903)

And Grace Ferrall’s phrase recurred to her, “Nobody ever has enough money! ❋ Unknown (1899)

This expression recurred incessantly in his conversations with those with whom he was familiar; and "when I had the honor of being sub - lieutenant" was often on his lips, and always in illustration of comparisons or exhortations to economy. ❋ Wairy, Louis Constant, 1778-1845 (1895)