13 Verbs to Use for the Word narrator

The red man listened with profound attention, and constantly interrupted the narrator with intelligent questions on every subject that was interesting to him.

But the truly pathetic part of it was one's consciousness that what Mr. Ruskin did we should all have done, and that not all the trees in Birnam Wood and the Forest of Arden combined would have hidden the multitude of brother-clubmen who sought to avoid the narrator.

On the mountain desert one does not draw out a narrator with questions.

It was the tumult of this most dreadful execution, which occasioned the noise that drove the affrighted narrator to the shelter of any hole from the eye of merciless man.

With the Coverley essays in the Spectator, the novel in one of its formsthat in which an invisible and all knowing narrator tells a story in which some one else whose character he lays bare for us is the herois as good as achieved.

The blacksmith held his pipe in his hand, and regarded the narrator with the steadiness and impassiveness of an anvil.

"It was a curious instance of the domestic goose reverting to its wild habit of nocturnal feeding," remarked my narrator, dwelling characteristically upon the natural-history aspect of the fact.

"'Ees, indeed," repeated the narrator triumphantly.

" "Wal," replied the narrator; "some people that I've told it to, have suspicioned that it might be so; but every thing about it seemed so nateral, that I'm almost ready to make my affidavy that it was sober fact.

" "Well, he said to the clerk, 'I want a room that looks out over the sea'but perhaps" Now the sensible thing to do is to stop the narrator right at this point.

We learn about Crusoe's island, for instance, gradually just as Crusoe learns of it himself, though the author is careful by taking his narrator up to a high point of vantage the day after his arrival, that we shall learn the essentials of it, as long as verisimilitude is not sacrificed, as soon as possible.

There follows a song by the old shepherd Opico, on the superiority of the 'former age'; after which Carino asks the narrator, Sincerothe pseudonym under which Sannazzaro travelled in the realm of shepherdsto recount his history, which he does at length, ending with a lament in sestina form.

Her acted part of things Flora kept untold; but grandma's spirit of divination could unfailingly supply that, and her pencilled brows, stiff as they were, could tell the narrator she had done so.

13 Verbs to Use for the Word  narrator