1973 M. Amis Rachel Papers 185 Finally, I belaboured one of Gerard Manley Hopkins's sleazier lyrics, implying (a last-minute reread made clear) that it was high time we burned all extant editions of the little fag's poetry.

1977 T. Allbeury Man with President's Mind ii. 13 The report got a routine re-read.

1992 J. Clemmer & B. Sheehy Firing on all Cylinders iii. 49 It cost utilities from $20 to $300 each time a customer..requested a meter check or a reread of a meter.

2000 B. Clegg Invisible Customer x.154 In the final sentence of the main paragraph there's a spelling mistake.., which might have been spotted in a re-read.

1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Disowned (new ed.) I. Pref. p. vii The most striking works are not often the most re-read.

1893 W. C. Robinson tr. B. ten Brink Hist. Eng. Lit. I. 80 The often re-read work of the Roman philosopher.

1957 Rev. Econ. & Statistics 39 342/1 [This newest volume] will take its place beside the two previous similar volumes..among the treasured and repeatedly re-read books in the libraries of all of us who greatly value his unique wisdom.

2008 T. H. Brobjer Nietzsche's Philos. Context ii. 23 Emerson was the most read and reread author of all those Nietzsche read.

1582 G. Whetstone Heptameron Ciuill Disc. sig. Zij After hee had read and reread this Letter..hee comforted his Spirit, with hope.

1653 H. Harflete Banquet of Ess. ii. 9 Good consorts are worth my acquaintance, and good Books my perusall; my paines may countervaile my profit, if I read them, through-read them, re-read them.

a1685 A. Killigrew Poems (1686) 49 She..Survey'd each Line with Fancy richly fraught, Re-read, and then revolv'd them in her Thought.

1782 F. Burney Cecilia IV. vii. v. 69 Cecilia read and re-read this letter.

1794 A. Seward Lett. (1811) III. 347 I am too busily employed in more necessary concerns to re-read..his works.

1818 M. W. Shelley Frankenstein III. v. 102 I read and re-read her letter, and some softened feelings stole into my heart.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Let. in Scribner's Mag. 1 398 I have been re-reading the Hoggarty Diamond this morning.

1876 F. Harrison Choice Bks. (1886) 78 The immortal..poets of our race are to be read and re-read.

1909 L. Woolf Let. 1 Feb. (1990) 146 I reread the tale about the child who is pinched on the buttocks by the adulterating captain.

1930 T. Frank Life & Lit. Rom. Republic ii. 46 Here we have a complete Latin play which shows what even an uninspired Roman dramatist might do by way of re-reading an ancient legend.

1965 J. Rhys Lett. (1984) 291 I re-read your book the other day.

2001 E. Griffart-Meissner tr. D. Glocheux La Vie en Rose 9 Reread The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery.