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Restoration

noun

The reign of Charles II in England; 1660-1685.

The act of restoring something or someone to a satisfactory state.

Getting something back again. Synonyms: regaining, restitution, return.

The state of being restored to its former good condition. Synonyms: refurbishment, renovation.

Some artifact that has been restored or reconstructed.

A model that represents the landscape of a former geological age or that represents and extinct animal etc..

The re-establishment of the British monarchy in 1660.

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"Restoration" Quotes from Famous Books

... Unsettled boundaries. New Zealand. Hunter River. Midnight alarm. Ludicrous scene. Changes in Officers of ship. Leave Sydney. Port Stephens. Corrobory. Gale at Cape Upstart. Magnetical Island. Halifax Bay. Astonish a Native. Description of country. Correct chart. Restoration Island. Picturesque arrival. Interview with the Natives from Torres Strait. Their weapons. Shoal near Endeavour River. Discover good passage through Endeavour Strait. Booby Island. New ...

— Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 • John Lort Stokes

... that she should escape? Of absolute escape there was no chance whatever. Even should the jury acquit her, she must declare her guilt to the world,—must declare it to her son, by taking steps for the restoration of the property. As to that Sir Peregrine felt no doubt whatever. That Joseph Mason of Groby would recover his right to Orley Farm was to him a certainty. But how terrible would be the path over which she must walk before this deed of retribution could be done! ...

— Orley Farm • Anthony Trollope

... Mensheviki Internationalists was in favour of considering the admission of the Bolsheviki into the new Government, the Duma voted to continue its representatives in the Vikzhels conference, but to insist upon the restoration of the Provisional Government before everything, and to exclude the ...

— Ten Days That Shook the World • John Reed

... last began one of the party, "you are well aware that nothing would give us greater pleasure than the restoration of your health, and that with you we are impatiently waiting for the moment when you shall be able to leave your room again, but we know well enough that when that moment arrives, the irresistible desire of being useful to your native land, will drive you to distant parts of ...

— Hair Breadth Escapes - Perilous incidents in the lives of sailors and travelers - in Japan, Cuba, East Indies, etc., etc. • T. S. Arthur

... chatter, and the cold without and the comfort within stimulated him greatly to enter. He made his approaches with proper caution, and knocked with extreme humility. The appearance of Hollister with a drawn sword, roughly demanding who was without, contributed in no degree to the restoration of his faculties; but fear itself lent him ...

— The Spy • James Fenimore Cooper

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