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Recovery

noun

Return to an original state.

Gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury. Synonyms: convalescence, recuperation.

The act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost). Synonym: retrieval.

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"Recovery" Quotes from Famous Books

... other hand, threatened to seize the ship if the box did not materialise, and were told to do so at their peril. But exactly off Ballycastle, which had been passed while the officials were poorly, there was a float in the sea attached to a line, which in due course led to the recovery of a case of valuable property that was none the worse for a few hours' rest on the ...

— Ulster's Stand For Union • Ronald McNeill

... as in the Meno, the origin of ideas is sought for in a previous state of existence. There was no time when they could have been acquired in this life, and therefore they must have been recovered from another. The process of recovery is no other than the ordinary law of association, by which in daily life the sight of one thing or person recalls another to our minds, and by which in scientific enquiry from any part of knowledge we may be led on to infer the ...

— Meno • Plato

... mighty, unmerciful blows that drove down their own weapons until that wielded by the ape-man was splintered and shattered. On either hand they fell before his cudgel; so rapid the delivery of his blows, so catlike his recovery that in the first few moments of the battle he seemed invulnerable to their attack; but it could not last—he was outnumbered twenty to one and his undoing came from a thrown club. It struck him upon the back of the head. For a moment he stood swaying and then like a great ...

— Tarzan the Terrible • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... intensely distasteful to me. When the marquis found all his offers declined with a politeness which left no opening for anger on his part, he endeavoured to induce me to take up the case on a commission contingent upon my recovery of the gems, and as I had declined this for the twentieth time, darkness had come on, and the gong rang for dinner. I dined alone in the salle a manger, which appeared to be set apart for those calling at the mansion on business, and the meagreness ...

— The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont • Robert Barr

... violently, that I could not add the superscription, for which reason it has lain by ever since.—I am easy on Lady Mary's account:—Mr. Delves has acquainted her of my illness:—like wise the prospect of my recovery. ...

— Barford Abbey • Susannah Minific Gunning

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