Restore

rɪˈstɔːr

verb

to bring back to a former or original condition; to repair or renovate

The word 'restore' comes from the Latin word 'restaurare', which means to renew or rebuild. It implies the act of returning something to its previous state or improving it to make it whole again.

Bayta said, “If the story of Seldon is true, he foresaw the complete collapse of the Empire through his Jaws of psychohistory, and was able to predict the necessary thirty thousand years of barbarism before the establishment of a new Second Empire to restore civilization and culture to humanity.

Asimov, Isaac

Foundation 2 - Foundation and Empire

When the five great lords were ready to start, they knelt in a row and put up their mailed hands before their faces, palm joined to palm, and swore upon their lives to conduct the sacred vessel safely, and safely restore it again to the Church of St. Remi after the anointing of the King.

Mark Twain

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

So one of my first triumphs as President will be to restore electricity to my people.” Frank didn’t see anything funny in that.

Kurt Vonnegut

Cat's Cradle

“The Yunkai’i will restore the Great Masters the instant you are gone, and we who have so faithfully served your cause will be put to the sword, our sweet wives and maiden daughters raped and enslaved.” “Not mine,” grumbled Skahaz Shavepate.

George R. R. Martin

A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five

Yet kindest friends while o’er My couch ye bend, and watch with tenderness The being whom your cares could e’en restore, From the cold grasp of Death, say can you guess The feelings which these lips can ne’er express?

John Keats

Poetry

In Russia there was an Emperor, Alexander, who decided to restore order in Europe and therefore fought against Napoleon.

Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace

If he comes back, and leaves the boy behind him; if he gets off free, and dead or alive, fails to restore him to me; murder him yourself if you would have him escape Jack Ketch.

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist

The name had blurred with the sand and she had moved to restore it, but the first letter filled before the last was begun.

Herbert, Frank

Dune

‘To Ronald Bilius Weasley, I leave my Deluminator, in the hope that he will remember me when he uses it.’” Scrimgeour took from the bag an object that Harry had seen before: It looked something like a silver cigarette lighter, but it had, he knew, the power to suck all light from a place, and restore it, with a simple click.

J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Margarethe wouldn’t descend from her room, claiming that the presence of Clara might restore her eyesight, and in her old age she preferred her blindness.

Gregory Maguire

Confessions of an Ugly Step Sister

It was this, as much as anything, that gave people courage, and I suppose the new arrivals from Woking also helped to restore confidence.

H. G. Wells

The War of the Worlds

He saw, too, what we all did, the infinite kindness which suggested that his should be the hand which would restore Lucy to us as a holy, and not an unholy, memory; he stepped forward and said bravely, though his hand trembled, and his face was as pale as snow:— “My true friend, from the bottom of my broken heart I thank you.

Bram Stoker

Dracula

This course, when others fail, may be good, but it is very bad to have neglected all other expedients for that, since you would never wish to fall because you trusted to be able to find someone later on to restore you.

Niccolò Machiavelli

The Prince

Who thro’ the foes hast borne thy banish’d gods, Restor’d them to their hearths, and old abodes; This is thy happy home, the clime where fate Ordains thee to restore the Trojan state.

Virgil

The Aeneid

Killing one or two of those least willing to veil their sullen eyes might restore the enthusiasm of the rest, but what good would that do if Lamla was right?

Stephen King

Dark Tower 7 - The Dark Tower

Hands go diligently along the bulwarks, and with buckets of water and rags restore them to their full tidiness.

Herman Melville

Moby Dick

I would take it every day.” “Now keep your promise and drink these few drops of water, which will restore you to health.” Pinocchio took the tumbler unwillingly in his hand and put the point of his nose to it: he then approached it to his lips: he then again put his nose to it, and at last said: “It is too bitter!

Carlo Collodi

The Adventures of Pinocchio

"Ser Eustace chose the black dragon over the red, in the hope that a Blackfyre king might restore the lands and castles that the Osgreys had lost under the Targaryens," Lady Rohanne said.

George R.R. Martin

The Tales of Dunk & Egg

But mark the distinction with which he is treated; instead of being knocked on the head as you would be if once they caught hold of you, he is simply sentenced to be guillotined, by which means, too, the amusements of the day are diversified, and there is a spectacle to please every spectator.” “Without reckoning the wholly unexpected one I am preparing to surprise them with.” “My good friend,” said the man in the cloak, “excuse me for saying that you seem to me precisely in the mood to commit some wild or extravagant act.” “Perhaps I am; but one thing I have resolved on, and that is, to stop at nothing to restore a poor devil to liberty, who has got into this scrape solely from having served me.

Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo

They treat by turns; and I’ve had ever so many, but haven’t returned them; and I ought, for they are debts of honor, you know.” “How much will pay them off, and restore your credit?” asked Meg, taking out her purse.

Louisa May Alcott

Little Women

If it were possible to imagine simply for the sake of argument that those three questions of the dread spirit had perished utterly from the books, and that we had to restore them and to invent them anew, and to do so had gathered together all the wise men of the earth—rulers, chief priests, learned men, philosophers, poets—and had set them the task to invent three questions, such as would not only fit the occasion, but express in three words, three human phrases, the whole future history of the world and of humanity—dost Thou believe that all the wisdom of the earth united could have invented anything in depth and force equal to the three questions which were actually put to Thee then by the wise and mighty spirit in the wilderness?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov

Instead of flowers on the branches and dew in the flowers, the long silvery tracks of the snails were visible on the cold, thick carpet of yellow leaves; but in any fashion, under any aspect, at all seasons, spring, winter, summer, autumn, this tiny enclosure breathed forth melancholy, contemplation, solitude, liberty, the absence of man, the presence of God; and the rusty old gate had the air of saying: “This garden belongs to me.” It was of no avail that the pavements of Paris were there on every side, the classic and splendid hotels of the Rue de Varennes a couple of paces away, the dome of the Invalides close at hand, the Chamber of Deputies not far off; the carriages of the Rue de Bourgogne and of the Rue Saint-Dominique rumbled luxuriously, in vain, in the vicinity, in vain did the yellow, brown, white, and red omnibuses cross each other’s course at the neighboring crossroads; the Rue Plumet was the desert; and the death of the former proprietors, the revolution which had passed over it, the crumbling away of ancient fortunes, absence, forgetfulness, forty years of abandonment and widowhood, had sufficed to restore to this privileged spot ferns, mulleins, hemlock, yarrow, tall weeds, great crimped plants, with large leaves of pale green cloth, lizards, beetles, uneasy and rapid insects; to cause to spring forth from the depths of the earth and to reappear between those four walls a certain indescribable and savage grandeur; and for nature, which disconcerts the petty arrangements of man, and which sheds herself always thoroughly where she diffuses herself at all, in the ant as well as in the eagle, to blossom out in a petty little Parisian garden with as much rude force and majesty as in a virgin forest of the New World.

Victor Hugo

Les Misérables

“I became pure energy so I could disintegrate the monsters, restore this place, and even save these miserable Hunters from the ice.” “But mortals can’t look upon you in that form!” Thalia shouted.

Rick Riordan

The Lost Hero

If, then, we would indeed restore mankind by truly Indian, botanic, magnetic, or natural means, let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our own brows, and take up a little life into our pores.

Henry David Thoreau

Walden

That I could, with the extinction of your miserable existence, restore those victims whom you have so diabolically murdered!” “I expected this reception,” said the dæmon.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

If he must dispense his balm of Gilead in nostrums and apothegms of dubious taste to restore to health a generation of unfledged profligates let his practice consist better with the doctrines that now engross him.

James Joyce

Ulysses

The silly man had refused to surrender, and was trying to restore the day for his side with a pocket pistol.

T. E. Lawrence

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

They deride their fellows, do great harm to godliness, and they distort the meaning of this abundant gift maliciously, surely a mutilation beyond the power of man to restore.

Frank Herbert

Children of Dune

Some that were hostile are now contrite, and doing what they can, or letting others do unhindered what they can, to persuade Parliament to such action as may restore the collection to Ireland.

W. B. Yeats

Poetry

From Catulus,11 not to be indifferent when a friend finds fault, even if he should find fault without reason, but to try to restore him to his usual disposition; and to be ready to speak well of teachers, as it is reported of Domitius and Athenodotus; and to love my children truly.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations

Would mighty Jove restore that man again!

Homer

The Odyssey

“The Yunkai’i will restore the Great Masters the instant you are gone, and we who have so faithfully served your cause will be put to the sword, our sweet wives and maiden daughters raped and enslaved.” “Not mine,” grumbled Skahaz Shavepate.

Martin, George, R. R.

A Dance With Dragons

Of Man’s first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing Heavenly Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the Heavens and Earth Rose out of Chaos: Or if Zion hill Delight thee more, and Siloa’s brook that flowed Fast by the oracle of God, I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.

John Milton

Paradise Lost

Have strong hope and trust in him, for as he has restored me to my original condition, so likewise he will restore you if you trust in him.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Don Quixote

‘He’s back, he’s back!’ Nurse Cramer was there in the middle suddenly like a spinning policeman, trying desperately to restore order, dissolving helplessly into tears when she failed.

Heller, Joseph

Catch-22

“Sally lives in lodgings at 3, Mayfield Place, Peckham.” “And your name is—?” “My name is Sawyer—hers is Dennis, which Tom Dennis married her—and a smart, clean lad, too, as long as he’s at sea, and no steward in the company more thought of; but when on shore, what with the women and what with liquor shops—” “Here is your ring, Mrs. Sawyer,” I interrupted, in obedience to a sign from my companion; “it clearly belongs to your daughter, and I am glad to be able to restore it to the rightful owner.” With many mumbled blessings and protestations of gratitude the old crone packed it away in her pocket, and shuffled off down the stairs.

Arthur Conan Doyle

A Study in Scarlet

Some moderate and gradual relaxation of the laws which give to Great Britain the exclusive trade to the colonies, till it is rendered in a great measure free, seems to be the only expedient which can, in all future times,1135 deliver her from this danger, which can enable her or even force her to withdraw some part of her capital from this overgrown employment, and to turn it, though with less profit, towards other employments; and which, by gradually diminishing one branch of her industry and gradually increasing all the rest, can by degrees restore all the different branches of it to that natural, healthful, and proper proportion which perfect liberty necessarily establishes, and which perfect liberty can alone preserve.

Adam Smith

The Wealth of Nations