"Recommencement" Quotes from Famous Books 
 
 
  ... what is to come. Once in a while, indeed, there is a gleam of sky along the horizon, or a half-cheerful, half-sullen lighting up of the atmosphere; the rain-drops cease to patter down, except when the trees shake off a gentle shower; but soon we hear the broad, quiet, slow, and sure recommencement of the rain. The river, if I mistake not, has risen considerably during the day, and its current will ...  — Passages From The American Notebooks, Volume 2. • Nathaniel Hawthorne |