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1909, Archibald Marshall, The Squire's Daughter, chapterI:

He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. […] But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again […] she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side.

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(intransitivehttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#intransitive) To returnhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/return to a place after having been there at a previoushttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/previous time.

Sentence	1909, Archibald Marshall, The Squire's Daughter, chapterI: He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. […] But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again […] she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side.
Definition	( intransitive https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#intransitive ) To return https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/return to a place after having been there at a previous https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/previous time.

Archibald Marshall Squire's Daughter Chapteri Persuade Cicely Stay