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Re-create  v. t.  To create or form anew. "On opening the campaign of 1776, instead of reenforcing, it was necessary to re-create, the army."






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"Re-create" Quotes from Famous Books



... in possession were made "promoters" under the Land Clauses Act, and thus be enabled to purchase the fee of their holdings in the same manner as a body of railway proprietors. It would be most useful to the state to increase the number of tenants-in-fee—to re-create the ancient FREEMEN, the LIBERI HOMINES—and I think it can be done without requiring the aid either of a new principle or new machinery, by simply placing the farmer-in-possession on the same footing as the railway shareholder. I give at foot the draft ...
— Landholding In England • Joseph Fisher

... but prophetic dreams to which the dreamer himself did not yield a waking credence. Children are now the only representatives of the men and women of that happy era; and therefore it is that we must raise the intellect and fancy to the level of childhood, in order to re-create the ...
— Tanglewood Tales • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... suspicious, and perhaps not so stern as they were in Prussia. Nor did he doubt for a moment that Julie knew he was following them. She had recognized him and their eyes had spoken in the language of understanding to each other. It was easy enough to re-create for himself, almost as vivid as reality, her beautiful face with the golden hair showing under the edges of the hood, and the startled look of the dark blue eyes when they first met his own. Relief and joy had been in that look ...
— The Hosts of the Air • Joseph A. Altsheler

... behold Come to re-create our kin: Not formed after common mould But our God (O Love untold!) Made in flesh that knows ...
— The Hymns of Prudentius • Aurelius Clemens Prudentius

... shapely immobile trees, the grey and crumbling stone, the lone green walks vanishing into a bosky darkness were instinct with the quiet of ages. It needed but Lady Prue with her flounces and furbelows and Sir Pertinax with his cane and buckled shoon to re-create the ancient world before good Queen Anne had gone to ...
— The Half-Hearted • John Buchan

... company of antique houses; its glorious cathedral dominating the whole—what a lovely old background against which poses the eternal modernness of the young noon sun! The history of Bayeux is commonly given in a paragraph. Our morning's walk had proved to us it was the kind of town that does more to re-create the historic past than all the pages of a Guizot or ...
— In and Out of Three Normady Inns • Anna Bowman Dodd

... "The Grandame," page 312. The "turf-clad slope" in line 4 was probably at Blakesware. It is difficult to re-create the scene, for the new house stands a quarter of a mile west of the old one, the site of which is hidden by grass and trees. Where once were gardens is now ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb IV - Poems and Plays • Charles and Mary Lamb

... the Principalship. It was his personality, his energy, his deep and vivid sympathy with student interests, even more than his learning and his contemporary influence in other spheres, that helped to re-create McGill. Under his spell there were many undergraduates who had thoughts and aspirations beyond the McGill of their day, thoughts of sacrifice, and of ...
— McGill and its Story, 1821-1921 • Cyrus Macmillan

... soul? What of my soul? False to its own music, its own mission, its own dream. That is what I mean by failure, Vera. I preached of God's Crucible, this great new continent that could melt up all race-differences and vendettas, that could purge and re-create, and God tried me with his supremest test. He gave me a heritage from the Old World, hate and vengeance and blood, and said, "Cast it all into my Crucible." And I said, "Even thy Crucible cannot melt this hate, cannot drink ...
— The Melting-Pot • Israel Zangwill



Words linked to "Re-create" :   re-creation, reproduce, renew, recite, simulate, hectograph, back up, present, imitate, forge, copy, represent, create mentally, trace, spiel, mimeograph, create by mental act, clone, mimeo, make, regenerate, interpret, stage, manifold, retell, roneo, act, create, counterfeit, fictionalise, fictionalize



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