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Example sentences for "recovered"

Lexicographically close words:
recouping; recours; recourse; recover; recoverable; recovereth; recoveries; recovering; recovers; recovery
  1. When Bet recovered from her faint, she went straight home, but Hester hastened to the police-court, to learn Will's fate.

  2. He recovered his spirits and his courage on the spot, and in a few moments he and the general were amusing themselves in acting the scene which Bet had just gone through.

  3. Here Mother Bunch recovered her breath, and Having taken a sip or two of the water which Bet gave her in a cracked teacup, began to pour out her tale.

  4. After days of unconsciousness she slowly recovered to find her husband and her infant son no more.

  5. She has since recovered very fast, & I hope, notwithstanding a slight indisposition this morning which may be the effect of fatigue & change of weather, that its return is not in the least to be apprehended.

  6. Queen Henriette was ambitious, and she began to form projects for an alliance with France before she recovered from the fatigue of her journey.

  7. When the King recovered Monsieur apologised for his conduct, and the sponge of the royal forgiveness was passed over that episode as it had been over many others.

  8. Every one was amazed when it was discovered that he was a bishop, and they had barely recovered from their amazement when it was learned that he was not only a bishop but a good bishop.

  9. Once I had fever and nearly died, yet this knowledge that my face was everything was implanted in me so that my fear lest he should think me ugly when I recovered terrified me into hysterics.

  10. She ran out of the room, and Adam swaggered off, and when I recovered from my horror, I apologized for what he had done.

  11. Adam Dishart had torn my arm from Margaret's, and I had not recovered the wrench in eighteen years.

  12. It was neither, Mr. McKenzie," I answered, with the calmness of one not yet recovered from a shock.

  13. They propped her up in the pew in a respectful attitude, joining in the singing meanwhile, and she recovered in time to look up 2nd Chronicles, 21st and 7th.

  14. Have you who read ever been sick near to death, and then so far recovered that you could once again stand at your window?

  15. Janet recovered her spirits in a great measure before tea was over.

  16. Fortunately, the artist soon recovered from his illness, but it was not until September that he completed his work in Rome, and received permission from the Pope to return to Mantua.

  17. By the spring he had so far recovered that he decided to undertake the journey to the Mississippi, his heart set on founding a mission among the tribes there.

  18. When the Onondagas recovered consciousness they were surprised at the deathlike stillness.

  19. I drank my "brandy sling," and retreated before he had recovered from his surprise, and thus I escaped the volley of interrogatories with which I should have been most unsparingly assailed.

  20. Sandy had recently been ill, and had hardly recovered his strength; while Bob, only a week before, had cut himself in the foot with an axe, so that he would be hobbling around for a month yet.

  21. But boyish nature is apt to soon recover from these things; and once they had shut out the familiar scene, and turned their faces toward the west, they gradually recovered their customary spirits.

  22. The abbess told her that she would send two lay-sisters to bring her back to the convent, and that as she had recovered her health she could come on-foot, and thus save money which could be spent in better ways.

  23. Next morning she found me sad, and rallied me in such a way that I soon recovered my spirits.

  24. I told him that as soon as the confinement was over, and the young lady had recovered her health, she would return to her mother, though she would make no confession, and that the child should be well looked after.

  25. However, she soon recovered her composure, and begged me to stay at the Hague a day longer, but I told her it was out of the question, and left the room.

  26. But what they have lost in this direction the Zulu-Xosas, or at least the Zulus, have recovered a hundredfold by their expansion northwards during the nineteenth century.

  27. But, as already noticed, those recovered from prehistoric, or neolithic kurgans, are found to be dolichocephalous like those of palaeolithic and early neolithic man in Europe.

  28. On returning to the cart he was astonished to find that his companion had so far recovered from her nervousness as to be able to alight as well.

  29. The major recovered his property, but the thief wrenched himself from the grasp of his captor, bolted like a rabbit between the sorting-heaps, and gained the open veld.

  30. One night he sat up in bed and announced that he had completely recovered and was extremely hungry.

  31. But he recovered his poise, though he made up his mind to try his next work in St. Petersburg instead of Moscow.

  32. Franz recovered his genial spirits and constantly gained in health and strength.

  33. When the astonished musician recovered himself, he presented the boy to Jules Benedict, his young friend and pupil who walked at his side, saying, "This is Felix Mendelssohn.

  34. However, with special medical treatment he so far recovered that he was able to resume the work, but still was not himself.

  35. When he recovered from his astonishment, he entered the inn and made a good meal with part of the money; the rest ensured another visit to Hamburg.

  36. He stooped quickly and recovered it before the younger man could give him service.

  37. He stood for a moment, a cloudy presence in the darkening room, then with a short laugh recovered himself.

  38. A few days later she met the shepherd,--he was simply beaming, for the dog had recovered and was with him.

  39. I am quite recovered from the ailment which made me good for little in the summer, and indeed am stronger than I ever expected to be again.

  40. That illness robbed me of two months, and I have never quite recovered a condition in which the strict duties of the day are not felt as a weight.

  41. On the 9th of August he had an attack of paraplegia, and although he partially recovered from it, it made a marked change in him.

  42. But instead of any former affection being displaced in my mind, I seem to have recovered the loving sympathy that I was in danger of losing.

  43. It is probable that he never recovered from the effect of the terrible railway accident.

  44. I hear with much comfort that you are better, and have recovered your usual activity.

  45. He had not yet recovered from the shock when Madame de Valricour came sweeping along the corridor.

  46. As soon as he had recovered from the excitement into which this discovery had thrown him, Isidore acquainted his friend with the more private details of his story.

  47. Madame de Rocheval had her brought in and attended to, but when she revived and had somewhat recovered we found that she had evidently lost her reason.

  48. By this time Marguerite had somewhat recovered from her amazement, though she could as yet scarcely grasp all the reality of what was passing.

  49. The two sailors, however, having recovered themselves, and with a growl tucked back the blue check, steered away to the wine-house.

  50. In the course of a few weeks, however, I was sufficiently recovered to rejoin my regiment, at Clichy camp, near Paris.

  51. I myself, on the second day fainted; but, on having my stock taken off, recovered sufficiently to stagger on and finish the march.

  52. The poor fellow never recovered the injuries he received.

  53. While untying the corporal a dead silence prevailed for some time, until our gallant General recovered a little his noble feeling, when he uttered, with a broken accent, “Why does a brave soldier like you commit these crimes?

  54. She was recovered now, and at home again, and had promised to help to make up for lost time by superintending a gathering at the beginning of the new term.

  55. Poor Mrs. Stanton looked very pale, but had recovered her composure sufficiently to receive her young guests by the time they were ushered into the drawing-room.

  56. Ralph was the first one caught by the strong arm of a seaman, and then the little girl, now fully recovered from her fright, received the care of a woman in the boat.

  57. Look at the little boat," shouted Ralph, who had now recovered and had moved to the open door.

  58. The considerable heat to which she was subjected when Germaine held her above the flaming newspaper had brought about a healthy reaction and in the solitude of the kitchen she had recovered consciousness.

  59. In most cases the carriage was already out of sight before they recovered sufficiently from their astonishment to wave back.

  60. He had recovered his breath again, and was but little worse for his scorching, except in his speech.

  61. She started as he came upon her, but instantly recovered her calm poise of the evening before.

  62. She recovered quickly and shook her head.

  63. When he joined the others at last he found that the household had recovered its equanimity.

  64. When he had recovered from his great surprise he moved a step nearer to her.

  65. As she passed Paul she dropped a jewelled reticule, which he promptly recovered for her, offering it with a grave face and a murmured "Permettez moi, Madame.

  66. I brought back with me a feeble reminiscence of it into the period of recovered consciousness, but to reproduce this in reasonable words would be impossible for me.

  67. The news was received with such a shout of joy as if the recovered paradise had lain behind these lines.

  68. That, when I recovered my reason and with it the knowledge of my deep misery, I did not do myself some harm, or the pang did not kill me, probably was due to my possession of my children.

  69. She has recovered from her faintness," replied Mr. Howland.

  70. Whittington looked up and recovered his voice.

  71. It fared a trifle better, but still scarcely recovered its costs.

  72. Barbados could not be recovered by strength of arms; it could only be frightened, or lured, back into the hands of England.


  73. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "recovered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.