Verb (used without object), : The idea kept recurring.    From Dictionary.com. 

The title recurs constantly in the early Middle Ages.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

His name recurs in the 'Vision of Judgment', stanza xcii.    From Wordnik.com.  [Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1] Reference

For in v. 20 and in v. Ge 45: 23 where the expression recurs it cannot refer to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

Sir John Arnway was mayor in that year, according to one account: but the name recurs pretty positively in.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays] Reference

The expression recurs frequently in documents of the Carlovingian kings, as well as in Anglo-Saxon writings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference

The phrase recurs in S. Mark ix. 33, -- as the text of that place has been revised by Tischendorf, by Tregelles and by himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established] Reference

The phrase recurs in S. Mark ix. 38, — as the text of that place has been revised by Tischendorf, by Tregelles and by himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark] Reference

If the call recurs to you in prayer, and it is your Saviour's will, then we can be sure that the way and the means will be revealed.    From Wordnik.com.  [One of Ours] Reference

If the call recurs to you in prayer, and it is your Saviour’s will, then we can be sure that the way and the means will be revealed.    From Wordnik.com.  [III. Book Two: Enid] Reference

No other color term recurs with pavlova nearly so often.    From Wordnik.com.  [Further thoughts about “Pavlova”] Reference

This expression recurs very frequently, and is elaborated in detail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries] Reference

Over thirty times this expression recurs in the first eleven chapters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Johannine Writings] Reference

The name 'Intercontinental' recurs, which is meant to resonate the way it does.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Symmons Roberts, The Half Healed (Cape, 2008)] Reference

The old ambition to become godlike recurs, that is, but now in a secularized, naturalistic form.    From Wordnik.com.  [PERFECTIBILITY OF MAN] Reference

To this son, whose name recurs repeatedly in the will, he gave a motto - All for the French people.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life Of Napoleon Bonaparte]

But as the notion recurs in the Stoic thinker Posidonius (ca. 135 B. C.-ca.    From Wordnik.com.  [LINGUISTICS] Reference

Another instance of her absent-mindedness recurs to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ideala] Reference

This treatment may be repeated if the condition recurs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference

The question recurs, moreover, what 'cessation' have we to propose?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Giotto especially, when reading those sermons, recurs to the memory, of.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference

When I encounter a goat, the same sequence recurs: hind legs, dancing, explosion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Instincts: Where modern man can learn to live like his ancestors] Reference

But the question recurs again -- what is a practical way to solve the difficulty?.    From Wordnik.com.  [America First Patriotic Readings] Reference

This pattern recurs in other cases; violent repression creates extreme opposition.    From Wordnik.com.  [No White Hats In Moscow] Reference

In this last group of six there recurs a name from the top of the page, George Plimpton.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sporting Life] Reference

He again recurs to the same subject in his annual report to Congress, in December, 1867.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference

Here he plays a simple lyrical theme that recurs throughout the work as emotional relief.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Lamentate': Two Sides to Arvo Pärt's Art] Reference

I had thought it was a numeral but it was a resonance, one that happens early then recurs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreams-in-progress] Reference

But the ugly question recurs, what are you going to do with the greenbacks thus put afloat?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference

In the preface to his second edition he recurs to this problem and makes a significant comment on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Theories of Translation] Reference

Western Europe had them too, and persecution of minorities recurs, as France's Roma are being reminded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paranoia politics crosses the Atlantic as Tea Party champions come ashore] Reference

It is a theme that recurs in country after country, as Naipaul notes competing mosques and evangelical churches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief by VS Naipaul] Reference

Now we observe that in the calyx this stage is not improved on, but that the plant recurs to a much simpler formation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

The Yateses were almost certainly warned by doctors that postpartum depression often recurs when more children come along.    From Wordnik.com.  [Motherhood And Murder] Reference

If the signs are pictorial, the same thing will follow; that is, we shall have groups recurring when the same idea recurs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245] Reference