209 collocations for recounts

Who brought you here?" "A woman," answered the man, and he recounted all his adventure.

For hours together I made him recount to me the story of his campaigns, and when he grew weary of talking and I of listening, we had a round with the rapier, or a bout with the sword on horseback, and as the weeks passed, I found I was gaining some small proficiency.

Thereupon Billie recounted to an interested audience the events that had led to her idea that it might be a rat that was making a joke of them all and how she had decided to put her idea to the test.

She recounted, in a low but rapid voice, the incidents of the evening, and Annina's construction of the conduct of the females whom she had left behind in the prison.

Remembering that he was addressing the dead man's brother, he recounted the details of the interview without feeling; indeed he threw no more colour into it than if he had been opening a case in court.

I would like to recount my experiences with two of them-at Saligao and at Siolim-two villages close to where I live.

She laid her gloved fingers gently on his when he recounted tales of strong mengood fathers in their simple, barbarous waywho were well content that the children should die rather than be saved to pass a miserable existence, without joy, without hope.

For if ye remember at Hat Creek, I met ye with General Carr; We talked of the brave young Custer, And recounted his deeds of war.

If they ever differed, it was only in their rivalry of success; or when they did not go a spree-hunting together, they recounted their exploits at their nightly meetings, and then the result was an increase of moral inflammation.

With changed names and in a slightly veiled form, it recounts the history of some who received spiritual blessing through her mission work.

"I do not intend to recount my life and adventures since that time; in fact, I shall scarcely touch upon them.

She seems to me somewhat like a canonized creature who should all at once come and recount to me the glories of paradise.

But it would be tedious to recount the names of all the men of letters and artists whom Frances Burney had an opportunity of seeing and hearing.

" Victoire recounted these dreadful things in her simple way, as one whom Paris has not yet turned into a liar, and who says all she knows, careless what it may be.

Mrs. Delano could not at once summon sufficient resolution to recount all the particulars to Flora; to whom she merely said that she considered it certain that her sister was not with Mr. Fitzgerald.

Did the scribe believe what he wrote when he recounted the multiplied marvels of his holy patron's life?

He recounted the action taken by two members of the Assembly with regard to the so-called Minister of the Interior, Morny, and the answer of the said Morny: "If I find any of the Representatives behind the barricades, I will have them shot to the last man," and that other saying of the same witty vagabond respecting the members taken to the Quai d'Orsay, "These are the last Representatives who will be made prisoners."

p. 54) recounts a 'triumph' gained by Johnson in a talk on Greek literature.

Secondly, he will recount in another volume his trials at Paris and Versailles; and only in a third volume will he be able to deal with his English experiences.

Sigismund hastily recounted to his companion all the circumstances that were then known to himself, and related the manner in which he had first met the Italian on the lake, and his general impressions concerning his character.

The hours passed blithely with officers and men, while they recounted one to another their manifold achievements.

But I am weary of recounting out late miseries, and, passing by everything that I can well omit, I shall only observe that, when the city was almost depopulated, seven beautiful young ladies, in deep mourning, met one Tuesday evening in Saint Mary's Church, where indeed they composed the whole of the congregation.

It is natural that the task of recounting the facts in the foregoing chapters should cause one's thoughts to turn to the future.

The princess and Barneveldt recounted the whole affair to Maurier, the French ambassador; and his son has transmitted it to posterity.

In recounting the atrocities wrought by Prussian Imperialism, no mention is made of those that it has committed upon its own people.

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