What is "retook"

Usage examples of "retook".

Philadelphia, our driver set down two pouches of post, took up three others, traded his horses for fresh ones of Virginian stock, lit two torches of larch, and retook the road.

Her pupils turned Toad, but fast retook their common shape as she returned to herself and spoke.

Fivekiller whistled, lightly, and the men retook to their work as the witch ranted on.

The game was interrupted by a pitched battlewe were overrun, then driven back, then we retook the position, all of which consumed maybe a belland lo, someone had walked off with a two hundred pound table in the meantime!

York and retook the city, burning it to the ground a few days before Christmas.

He is the new Saladin, the Islamic general who defeated the Crusaders and retook Jerusalem for Islam.

Five days later the Russians retook it and the Germans, attacked on both the northern and southern flanks, were in headlong retreat back fifty miles to the Mius River where Kleist and Rundstedt had wished in the first place to establish a winter line.

She moved back as her warriors retook the path to stand against any further attempts by the Lizzars in gaining access to the town.