Example Sentences

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“Life to retraverse the past, light to retrieve the misdeed?”

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward

Problems of Church government had come to the front, and he proposed to retraverse his subject, narrowing it into a history of the papacy.

From The History of Freedom by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron

In recapitulation, in summary, in symbol, we retraverse, from the embryo to the corpse, the history of life on earth for millions of years.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

The great halls have a power to make one retraverse their space I have yet to find under other vaulted chambers.

From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2 by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)

For a couple of miles I retraverse the path by which I reached Fat-shan before encountering a divergent pathway, acceptable as, leading distinctly toward the northwest.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas