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Resettle   Listen
verb
Resettle  v. i.  To settle again, or a second time.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Resettle" Quotes from Famous Books



... have found sufficing for their happiness by the fireside—in the arm-chair and corner appropriated to each—how strangely they contrast thy own feverish excitement! And they make room for thee, and bid thee welcome, and then resettle to their hushed pursuits as if nothing had happened! Nothing had happened! while in thy heart, perhaps, the whole world seems to have shot from its axis, all the elements to be at war! And you sit down, ...
— Lavengro - The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest • George Borrow

... making music on its wide sandy and pebbly floor. Hither and thither flit the wagtails, finding little half-uncovered stones in the current to perch upon. Both the pied and grey species are there; and, seeing them together, one naturally wishes to resettle for himself the old question as to which is the prettiest and most graceful. Now this one looks best and now that; but the delicately coloured grey and yellow bird has the longest tail and can use it more ...
— Afoot in England • W.H. Hudson

... tried to prevent this development by introducing the famous "land equalization system" (chuen-t'ien), one of their most important innovations. The direct purposes of this measure were to resettle uprooted farm population; to prevent further migrations of farmers; and to raise production and taxes. The founder of this system was Li An-shih, member of a Toba family and later husband of an imperial princess. The plan was basically accepted ...
— A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.] • Wolfram Eberhard



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