"Recovered" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was to see Sir Walter Scott before his departure. We stayed with him three days, and he quitted Abbotsford the day after we left it. His health has undoubtedly been much shattered, by successive shocks of apoplexy, but his friends say he is so much recovered, that they entertain good hopes of his life and faculties being spared. Mr. Lockhart tells me that he derived benefit by a change of his treatment made by his London physicians, and that he embarked ...
— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth
... see De Orat. 2, 273; and (2) there were several other persons of distinction bearing the name Q. Maximus about the same time, so that some special mark was wanted for the sake of clearness. Notice recepit 'recovered', Tarentum having been lost by the Romans to Hannibal in 212 B.C. — SENEM ADULESCENS: observe the emphasis given by placing close together the two words of opposite meaning. — ERAT ... GRAVITAS: 'that hero possessed dignity tempered by courtesy'. Expressions like erat in ...
— Cato Maior de Senectute • Marcus Tullius Cicero
... nor Mr. Stanford ever recovered from the strain of that time. It is said that it eventually caused ...
— History of California • Helen Elliott Bandini
... furnished in a style of comfortable elegance, and succeeded by her blandishments in swindling Wardle into becoming security for her furniture. The inevitable result of course followed. On the 3rd July, 1809, Wright, the upholsterer, brought his action against Wardle and recovered L1,400 damages,[17] besides costs, "for furniture sold to the defendant to the use of Mary Anne Clarke." The colonel, like the commander-in-chief, thus found himself not only out-manoeuvred by his clever and unscrupulous ex-ally, but reaped ...
— English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. - How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. • Graham Everitt
... pale, though she had almost recovered from her illness. She kissed Dona Victorina, smiling ...
— An Eagle Flight - A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal
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