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Lately these troubled moods had been recurring more frequently.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since that morning there had been recurring to him, with the persistence of a popular song, some vague phrases that he had read in the communion service.

From The Reign of Greed by Derbyshire, Charles E.

He voiced a question which had been recurring in his mind for a year.

From The Hidden Places by Sinclair, Bertrand W.

The name Scobell had been recurring like a leit-motif in Mr. Crump's conversation.

From The Prince and Betty by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

In the years during which his passion for her had been cooling into a staid friendship, his imagination had been recurring with constantly increasing fondness and a dreamy passion to the memory of her girlhood.

From A Summer Evening's Dream 1898 by Bellamy, Edward