The Committee showed the highest appreciation of the fitness of things and of persons, when they made my friend, now Recreating in the sunny clime of California, their first choice for the pleasing task now, unfortunately for the Association, devolved upon me.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs
It was even the characteristic weather of that land of the Bay of Biscay, the weather which he liked best formerly, and which to-day filled him with physical comfort-as much as with disturbance of mind, for all that was preparing, all that was amassing above, with airs of ferocious menace, impressed him with the sentiment of a heaven deaf to prayers, without thoughts as without master, a simple focus of storms, of blind forces creating, Recreating and destroying.
"Ramuntcho"
Pierre Loti
But for all that she could not help indulging in a woman's pleasure of Recreating defunct agonies, and lacerating herself with them now and then.
"Desperate Remedies"
Thomas Hardy