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Definition of Recapturing
1. recapture [v] - See also: recapture
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recapturing
Literary usage of Recapturing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa: Including a Sketch of by David Livingstone (1858)
"... Mode of recapturing-them.—Vagaries of sick Servants.—Discovery of grape-bearing
Vines.—An Ant-eater.—Difficulty of passing through the Forest. ..."
2. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa: Including a Sketch of by David Livingstone (1858)
"... Mode of recapturing them.—Vagaries of sick Servants.—Discovery of grape-bearing
Vines.—An Ant-eater.—Difficulty of passing through the Forest. ..."
3. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1893)
"should they assist in recapturing the ship from an enemy, such salvage will be
awarded them, although their ship may be a foreign ship.1 4. Shipowners. ..."
4. Deeds of Valor: From Records in the Archives of the United States Government by Walter Frederick Beyer, Oscar Frederick Keydel (1907)
"recapturing A DROVE OF CATTLE "After swallowing my coffee and hard-tack, I took
my rifle and went to mj lookout hole to see how the field ..."
5. Twenty Years at Sea: Or, Leaves from My Old Log-books by Frederic Stanhope Hill (1893)
"... CHAPTER VII recapturing A RUNAWAY I DID not long remain as second mate, for
the very next voyage the chief mate was lost overboard one morning from the ..."
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