Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
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We drove to Lourmarin, a village we had summered in, in 1987 — when our daughters were still with us and not yet mothers in their turn.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2011
His grandmother had summered with Wharton in Newport, R.I.; his parents were friends of Wharton’s lawyers.
From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2010
My room-mates, who had summered in P-town before, had jobs waiting for them.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2000
About twenty families had summered there, living in the deserted homes of the Mormons.
From A Child of the Sea; and Life Among the Mormons by Elizabeth Whitney Williams
The Neversink had summered out her last Christmas on the Equator; she was now destined to winter out the Fourth of July not very far from the frigid latitudes of Cape Horn.
From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville
