reread

“I read and reread Thucydides,” the British novelist and politician John Buchan recalled in his memoir of World War I, “for he also had lived among crumbling institutions.”

Lady Constance had read and reread the society page so many times and dropped so many salty tears upon it, she now had black ink smudges all over her hands and face.

They may ask a parent to go back and reread an early part of a book because they can’t remember what just happened.

In the days since, I keep rereading what Kirk said about empathy.

There are two recipes I return to every summer, like the way some people revisit a favorite trail or reread a dog-eared paperback.