Painters, when they work on white grounds, place before them colours mixed with blue and green, to recreate their eyes, white wearying (..) the sight more than any.
Dr H. More
These ripe fruits recreate the nostrils with their aromatic scent.
In Italy, though they bide in cities in winter, which is more gentlemanlike, all the summer they come abroad to their country-houses, to recreate themselves.
Jeremy Taylor
St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge