Literary notes about Restore (AI summary)
The term "restore" is used with remarkable versatility in literature, ranging from the physical to the metaphorical. It can denote the act of reviving life or health, as when characters are promised a return to vitality or the reanimation of a once-lifeless state ([1], [2], [3]), or even the literal healing of wounds and illnesses ([4], [5]). At the same time, writers often employ "restore" to evoke a sense of returning to an earlier, more favorable condition—whether it is the recovery of lost joy or the reestablishment of order and balance ([6], [7], [8]). The word also finds its place in political or cultural narratives, representing the reinstitution of former governments, reparation of injustices, or even the rejuvenation of societal norms ([9], [10], [11]).
- Then he replied, "My dear wife, we can restore his life again to him, but it will cost us both our little sons, whom we must sacrifice."
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm - His powers were so extraordinary that he could not only cure the sick, but could even restore the dead to life.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens - “O God! restore to life the man I knocked down at the fence!
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The old Man said, "I know a means of saving him: if he drinks of the water of life it will restore him to health; but it is very difficult to find."
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm - It was necessary that Christ himself should come, and by taking on human nature, become flesh of our flesh, and restore us to life.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - Nor was her residence at her mother's house of a nature to restore her gaiety.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - As usual, my words are inadequate to express my feelings, but you will understand, my beloved, and restore the balance between the two.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo by Juliette Drouet and Louis Guimbaud - —Will you wait in my study for a moment, Mr Deasy said, till I restore order here.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce - "Thus may I restore the strength and splendor of the republic!"
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - There were those who would destroy the city in order to remedy its evils and restore the simple life of the country.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - To punish this flagitious deed, and restore his dominion in Italy, the emperor sent a fleet and army into the Adriatic Gulf.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon