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Oswald was fond of this sensation of danger; it supports the weight of affliction, it reconciles us, for a moment, with that life which we have reconquered, and which it so easy to lose.

From Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy by Greig, R. S.

Italy would never have reconquered Milan and Venice had she resigned herself to see them pass under the yoke of the stranger.

From The Schemes of the Kaiser by Adam, Juliette

It would have reconquered these outer parts at its leisure: and Poland was a sure bastion.

From Europe and the Faith "Sine auctoritate nulla vita" by Belloc, Hilaire

Soon, as Applebaum said, they'd be putting him in Class A and sending him back to the treadmill, and he would not have reconquered his courage, his dominion over himself.

From Three Soldiers by Dos Passos, John

The antithesis: "he had reconquered his people, here the people have reconquered their king," was universally applauded.

From Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men by Grant, Robert