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retraverse

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

From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Dodd, Anna Bowman

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)

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

“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

If the ray be reflected after passage, and made to retraverse the medium, the rotation is annulled in the latter case, it is doubled in the former.

From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew