Lexicographical Neighbors of Retracks
Literary usage of Retracks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Yale Literary Magazine by Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg, Yale University (1871)
"Happy is the heart, (Perfect rest to find, Which it long had lost In false ways
that wind,) That retracks its steps. Thy own peace to prove, Pure, ..."
2. Fabliaux Or Tales by Legrand, George Ellis, Gregory Lewis Way (1815)
"Rous'd at the last, disquieted and vex'd He scans the wood with various paths
perplex'd; With fruitless diligence retracks his way, Till sunk the westering ..."
3. Fabliaux Or Tales, Abridged from French Manuscripts of the XIIth and XIIIth by Legrand, George Ellis, Gregory Lewis Way (1815)
"Rous'd at the last, disquieted and vex'd He scans the wood with various paths
perplex'd; With fruitless diligence retracks his way, Till sunk the westering ..."
4. Fabliaux Or Tales, Abridged from French Manuscripts of the XIIth and XIIIth by Legrand, George Ellis, Gregory Lewis Way (1815)
"... With fruitless diligence retracks his way, Till sunk the westering sun, and
clos'd the day; Then various paths assays, the sport of chance, ..."
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