1670 W. Marshall Answers upon Several Heads Philos. i. v. 68 Yet there is no clear necessity of the constant re-appearing of the same Comet.

1751 R. Paltock Life Peter Wilkins I. ix. 84 I had, by the small glimmering, seen many large Bodies (to my thinking) move at a little Distance from me, and particularly toward the re-appearing of the Light.

1770 Philos. Trans. 1769 (Royal Soc.) 59 364 The middle of the eclipse was reckoned to be the middle time betwixt the disappearing of this limb, and the re-appearing of the other.

1837 Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 23 356 This sinking and reappearing of the stones may be continually repeated.

1884 Harper's Mag. Mar. 607/2 The next afternoon went by without his re-appearing.

1917 E. Wharton Summer xi. 155 There was no sign of Mr. Royall about the house and the hours passed without his reappearing.

1937 Q. Rev. Biol. 12 435/2 The reappearing of XX males after a few back-crosses to normal females and their daughters and granddaughters.

2004 D. Melser Act of Thinking iv. 88 In..the game peekaboo, an object being jointly observed is made to disappear and reappear—with considerable ostentation and vocalization marking the disappearings and reappearings.

1690 R. Boyle Christian Virtuoso 81 We scruple not to believe such strange Prodigies, as Celestial Comets, Vanishing and Reappearing Stars, [etc.].

1765 Ann. Reg. 1764 98 (heading) Observations on the singular phænomena of disappearing and re-appearing rivers.

1807 W. Wordsworth Poems II. 137 To his ancestors restored, Like a reappearing Star.

1816 R. Southey Lay of Laureate lviii In re-appearing light confess'd, There stood another Minister of bliss.

1891 Daily News 11 Sept. 3/3 One or two [sc. cottages] that have become shelters for the reappearing small holders.

1936 PMLA 51 257 The author employs the same series of climactic adjectives in a slightly modified form to describe the crescendo effect of a reappearing theme in the music.

1961 H. Chevalier tr. L. Aragon Holy Week x. 291 At last the reappearing moon revealed the ruins of ancient fortifications.

1997 Alif 17 168 This reappearing cast and the volume's common themes unite the stories.