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Repeat signs.

In music, the restatement of a section of a composition, not written out a second time, but indicated by repeat signs. In music of the 18th century, the expositions of movements in sonata form are nearly always marked for repetition. See also reprise.



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`I should like to hear her try and repeat something now.
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Carroll, Lewis View in context
I repeat, I repeat with emphasis: all "direct" persons and men of action are active just because they are stupid and limited.
Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
The same difficulty would not occur in preaching, since for this, we may suppose, he had sufficiently prepared his thoughts and expressions to make his discourse intelligible on all important points; and if he should, in some parts, fail of being, understood, he could repeat or correct himself, till he should succeed better.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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