Literary notes about Recover (AI summary)
The term "recover" in literature is used to convey a wide range of meanings from the restoration of physical health and composure to the reclaiming of lost territories, memories, or possessions. It can describe a character's process of regaining self-possession and overcoming shock or distress [1], [2], as well as a return to a state of physical wellness [3], [4]. The word is also applied to contexts where what is lost—whether it be an emotional state, valuable property, or political control—is sought to be reclaimed or restored [5], [6], [7], and even extends to the legal realm in matters of restitution [8], [9].
- I waited a little to let her recover her self-possession, and then spoke the decisive words— "Marian!
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins - " Again he stopped to recover himself; and Elinor spoke her feelings in an exclamation of tender concern, at the fate of his unfortunate friend.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen - I feared madness, not sickness—I have a presentiment that Adrian will not die; perhaps this illness is a crisis, and he may recover."
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - I recovered my health, but I never shall recover my good looks.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - In these parties he had lost large sums, in efforts to recover small ones, and to such losses the Count De Villefort and Mons.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe - That he was desirous to recover his country and his kingdom, and to punish his ungrateful subjects.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy - This child has caused me to recover what I had lost.
— from Twenty years after by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - “In my judgment the plaintiff is entitled to recover this sum from the defendant.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. by John Galsworthy - One judge thought that [398] the plaintiff was entitled to recover as tenant of the manor.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes
