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  • And when the war's over, some day, some year, the books can be written again, the people will be called in, one by one, to recite what they know and we'll set it up in type until another Dark Age, when we might have to do the whole damn thing over again.   (source)
    recite = say aloud (from memory)
  • MARY WARREN: Aye, but then Judge Hathorne say, "Recite for us your commandments!"   (source)
    recite = say aloud from memory
  • We are to get this poem by heart, twenty lines a night to be recited every morning.   (source)
    recited = said aloud
  • Every Easter we had to perform at the New Brown Church, playing our instruments or reciting a story from the Bible for the entire church congregation.   (source)
    reciting = saying or reading aloud
  • I watched two girls in Mr. Porter's class recite a version before the bell rang.   (source)
    recite = to say or read something aloud -- especially something previously memorized such as a poem
  • Even now, Dede hears her sister, reciting that poem she wrote in jail,   (source)
    reciting = to say or read something aloud
  • Elouise, the daughter of the Baptist minister, recited "Invictus,"   (source)
    recited = said aloud the words from
  • I searched my mind for a stanza to recite.   (source)
    recite = to say aloud (from memory)
  • So I would sit with her in the kitchen while she cooked or ironed and she would ask me to recite such and such a prayer and I would.   (source)
    recite = say aloud (from memory)
  • Some guys in school hardly ever get up to recite or go to the blackboard.   (source)
    recite = say or read aloud
  • As she continued to recite his rights, a flash from her eyes had the federal deputies and onlookers backing off.   (source)
    recite = said aloud (something previously memorized)
  • Abuela knows each poem by heart, and recites them quite dramatically.   (source)
    recites = to say or read something aloud
  • "'It is better,'" I recited piously, "'to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house with a contentious woman."   (source)
    recited = to say (from memory) or read something aloud
  • Her voice had got mechanical, like she was reciting a story she'd read in the newspaper -one that didn't have anything to do with her.   (source)
    reciting = saying or reading something aloud
  • My father, thinking that it might be good for business, urged me to show them how well I spoke English, to make a display of it, to casually recite "some Shakespeare words."   (source)
    recite = to say aloud something previously memorized
  • You mean we might draw a circle on the ground... and stand inside it... and recite charms and spells?   (source)
    recite = to say something aloud (often from memory)
  • Shall we have him dance, or sing, or recite, or think, or—   (source)
    recite = say something aloud from memory (such as a poem)
  • Afterwards there were recitations of poems composed in Napoleon's honor, and a speech by Squealer giving particulars of the latest increases in the production of foodstuffs, and on occasion a shot was fired from the gun.   (source)
    recitations = the reading (or saying aloud from memory)
  • They could recite the whole thing any time of the year because it was the poem of Christmas.   (source)
    recite = say something previously memorized aloud
  • Sometimes Bagheera the Black Panther would come lounging through the jungle to see how his pet was getting on, and would purr with his head against a tree while Mowgli recited the day's lesson to Baloo.   (source)
    recited = said aloud
  • The STATION-MASTER stands in the middle of the drawing-room and recites "The Magdalen" by Tolstoy.   (source)
    recites = to say aloud something previously memorized
  • Often I would have to walk several miles at night in order to recite my night-school lessons.   (source)
    recite = say aloud
  • CYRANO (reciting, as if repeating a lesson):   (source)
    reciting = saying aloud
  • I recited "The Chambered Nautilus," which was then my favorite poem.   (source)
    recited = said aloud lines previously memorized
  • When they came to recite their lessons, not one of them knew his verses perfectly, but had to be prompted all along.   (source)
    recite = to say something aloud that has been memorized
  • Seven and I could recite Malcolm X quotes by the time we were thirteen.†   (source)
  • Its recitation was a mantra.†   (source)
  • There were two more bed-wetting occurrences, but Hans Hubermann merely repeated his previous cleanup heroics and got down to the task of reading, sketching, and reciting.†   (source)
  • Together they studied all the 30 chapters of the Quran, not just recitation but also interpretation, something few boys do.†   (source)
  • olivia and i are sitting on her front stoop. she's helping me with my lines. it's a warm march evening, almost like summer. the sky is still bright cyan but the sun is low and the sidewalks are streaked with long shadows. i'm reciting: yes, the sun's come up over a thousand times. summers and winters have cracked the mountains a little bit more and the rains have brought down some of the dirt. some babies that weren't even born before have begun talking regular sentences already; and a…†   (source)
  • The one you recited to me on the plane.†   (source)
  • As they walked to the bus stop, Isabel recited a list of concerns to Esperanza, sounding exactly as Josefina and Mama had sounded earlier that morning.†   (source)
  • She recited the message to him.†   (source)
  • We all stand in the backyard, Hassan, Ali, Baba, and I. The mullah recites the prayer, rubs his beard.†   (source)
  • He was a detached, almost fanatically organized guy who maintained detailed time-management logs and could recite endless baseball statistics.†   (source)
  • Lev recites prayers, trying to let them transform him and lift him up like they used to, but his heart has been hardened.†   (source)
  • Officer Delinko fumbled for the microphone and recited the address of the construction site.†   (source)
  • He had no idea how to speak to God, so he recited snippets of prayers that he'd heard in movies.†   (source)
  • Dear Tom," he recited, watching Harry's horrified face, 'I think I'm losing my memory.†   (source)
  • He had practiced his recitation over and over, hour after lonely hour.†   (source)
  • I had gotten as far west as the Dakotas when my silent recitation was disturbed by a tapping on the porch.†   (source)
  • "Why did she wish that?" said Laura, who did not usually show much interest in my recitations.†   (source)
  • Every morning, at Mountain View Elementary, he placed his hand over his heart and recited the pledge of allegiance.†   (source)
  • I clasp my hands in my lap and recite, "When I got in that car accident last week, you happened to be driving by, and you waited for Triple A with me and then you drove me home.†   (source)
  • I stood up straight and proudly recited all that I knew: "White, yellow, orange, red, purple, blue, green."†   (source)
  • On the way back, one of Ye's colleagues recited from Chairman Mao's essay "Remembering Bethune": "Noble-minded and pure, a man of moral integrity and above vulgar interests."†   (source)
  • But for most of them, it is an act of recitation.†   (source)
  • He recited the story as if he were giving a recipe for meat.†   (source)
  • She regularly recited the Serenity Prayer, a staple of addiction circles in which the faithful ask God for the "serenity to accept the things [they) cannot change."†   (source)
  • You can learn a lot from them, and girls like it if you can quote lines or recite poetry.†   (source)
  • Thomas did, reciting every word he'd told the Keepers, hating how Teresa's eyes filled with worry—and terror.†   (source)
  • She remembered this as she listened to me reciting lyrics like I'd written them myself.†   (source)
  • Released in 1985," I recited.†   (source)
  • We prayed together and we practised dhikr, the recitation of the ninety-nine revealed names of God.†   (source)
  • Her voice was flat, like a child reciting a lesson.†   (source)
  • As she crossed the open space, she quietly recited the poem she had read so many times now that it was committed to memory.†   (source)
  • "Yeah, yeah, I know," Shay recited.†   (source)
  • Recite a litany.†   (source)
  • She recited the facts about the date of Mr. Caston's conviction, and then something quite unexpected happened.†   (source)
  • She spoke like someone reciting a well-rehearsed speech.†   (source)
  • After reciting this to the others, Constance went straight to bed without brushing her teeth or saying good night.†   (source)
  • On the following mornings, more than one kid was heard reciting the new "pledge."†   (source)
  • The column had never been much more than a bland recitation of guest lists, but its disappearance provoked a stinging rebuke from one of Savannah's leading socialites, Mrs. Vera Dutton Strong.†   (source)
  • When my Catholic classmates recited their prayers, we Jews were required to stand and be silent.†   (source)
  • She might as well have been reciting a pickle recipe, her tone was that flat.†   (source)
  • He rubbed some of the water from the calabash on my forehead and recited more prayers, followed by the proclamation of my name.†   (source)
  • Owen recited from memory; his memory of the poem was better than Frost's.†   (source)
  • In the stories that our mother recited, the holiest sages developed an extra eye right in the middle of their foreheads.†   (source)
  • Marie-Laure's hands whisper across the houses as she recites the names of the streets.†   (source)
  • He recited an Our Father silently.†   (source)
  • A lady started to recite the Lord's Prayer.†   (source)
  • I could recite the entire Sequoia student handbook.†   (source)
  • Du Hai recited more phrases from the newspaper.†   (source)
  • There were very few she could have recited all the way through.†   (source)
  • He went on to recite a host of learned titbits that he was amazed he had time to utter considering the usual efficiency and speed of The Cat when piercing some poor soul to the quick.†   (source)
  • Baba was reciting a long poem he had deciphered from ancient stone inscriptions.†   (source)
  • "Mare Molly Barrow, born November seventeenth, 302 of the New Era, to Daniel and Ruth Barrow," Tiberias recites from memory, laying my life bare.†   (source)
  • I was in the living room, playing patty-cake and reciting the alphabet and singing all the songs he'd belt out when he came home from the pub late at night, waking the neighbors.†   (source)
  • Then she pointed to each person in the room and recited their names, most of which I immediately forgot, as happens when I'm nervous.†   (source)
  • He can recite entire chapters of Scripture, and he knows law and medicine as well.†   (source)
  • They inquired after her studies and she was asked to recite a few stanzas from "The Daffodils."†   (source)
  • He was gallant and cultivated; he recited verses and poems while making love to them.†   (source)
  • The children would read out loud or recite their times tables.†   (source)
  • "Family, Duty, Honor," she recited stiffly.†   (source)
  • She recited it like it was a living thing.†   (source)
  • Finnick recites a poem he wrote to his one true love in the Capitol, and about a hundred people faint because they're sure he means them.†   (source)
  • "I solemnly swear to govern the peoples of the Eastern Commonwealth according to the laws and customs as laid down by generations of past rulers," he recited.†   (source)
  • Annie recited a few poems.†   (source)
  • The crier's voice was full of an inappropriate amount of self-importance, as if he was reciting the cure for some deadly disease.†   (source)
  • Lurz began reciting: "I, Deborah Lacks …"†   (source)
  • During a recitation by their Poet Master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem "Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning" four of his audience died of internal hemorrhaging, and the President of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off.†   (source)
  • Shen took the idea to heart, and after each jibe from the older boys, he had a group of four Launchies recite the words, loudly, five or six times.†   (source)
  • He used to go around reciting 'Annabel Lee' in a stupid voice, to make me mad.†   (source)
  • Words had appeared above his head, however, and Flora's father had read those words to her so many times that she could recite them by heart: HE IS AN UNASSUMING JANITOR.†   (source)
  • Even four years later he could recite the chemical formulas that caused his tongue to swell up.†   (source)
  • But she only skimmed a hand over my head as she came through the door, and applauded politely when Carol made me recite my multiplication and division tables.†   (source)
  • They spoke the Lord's Prayer, then sat more or less quietly while Sidona recited it a second time, her upturned face clenched in concentration.†   (source)
  • It has seven sentences -- short enough to recite in a moment of danger.†   (source)
  • "Mommy and Daddy call him my 'invisible playmate, ' " Danny said, reciting the words carefully.†   (source)
  • If the Empire knew that Brom had recited it, he would not live to see a new month.†   (source)
  • Marc Lee would lead it, usually speaking from the heart rather than reciting a memorized prayer.†   (source)
  • Slow lee two went I. My habit on that path was reciting sentences forward and back, for the concentration improved my walking.†   (source)
  • I recited our brief conversation to her.†   (source)
  • Then I lowered my head, began a whispered recitation of the rosary, and followed the torchlight and the Bikura into the treacherous depths.†   (source)
  • "I promise to try to be safe," I recited.†   (source)
  • The biggest part of the welcoming ceremony was about the roofleaf, which Joseph interpreted for us as one of the villagers recited the story that it is based upon.†   (source)
  • He sounded like a small child reciting the alphabet from the beginning in an attempt to propel his mind to whatever follows "G."†   (source)
  • Since I was young, I have always been able to recite the Twenty-third Psalm and several others from beginning to end.†   (source)
  • Hawk began reciting the last sentence Lincoln would ever hear, a series of corny insults that delighted the audience.†   (source)
  • They always had counted Harrison as one of their own, Our Carter," even though he was a plantation-reared Kentucky man who had gone to Yale, spoke fluent French and German, and recited lengthy passages from Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • I often recite it in class when I'm explaining meter and scansion—how the stressed and unstressed syllables function in lines of poetry.†   (source)
  • His marks often suffered in school because, although he did well in written tests and compositions, he was terrible in oral recitations, speeches, anything that required the spotlight of attention to be focused on him.†   (source)
  • Can you recite the 166th Psalm, Opa?†   (source)
  • We recited Lil's lines together all the way down into New York City that afternoon.†   (source)
  • It began as a straight recitation of the facts, but before I could stop myself I was talking about the blood clots and the water gun and how the smell had soaked into my skin and how I couldn't wash it away.†   (source)
  • Qur'an meant "Recitation."†   (source)
  • It should have played music or recited poetry upon command.†   (source)
  • He sort of mumbles it, not wanting Hiro to waste his time reciting a bunch of known facts.†   (source)
  • She sounds like a six-year-old reciting lines from a school play about the food groups: You mean you're supposed to eat five servings of fruit and vegetables a day?†   (source)
  • To me, she was the wisp of the wind's freedom, a music-maker, who often wrote song lyrics, told stories and recited dirty jokes.†   (source)
  • We hyperventilate so hard we can barely hear her instructions, though any of the twenty of us could recite them rote.†   (source)
  • Yetta broke off her recitation, her mouth shaping into a round 0 of surprise.†   (source)
  • In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now.†   (source)
  • Today I would like to recite to you a poem by Sir Walter Scott entitled lochinvar.'†   (source)
  • "For the devil has no power," said Dorothea softly, as if she were reciting an old rhyme, "except in the dark."†   (source)
  • He speaks formally, as if reciting data, but I notice a sheen of sweat across his face; and the way he's stretching his legs out in front of him looks familiar.†   (source)
  • Chronicler penned them down numbly, reciting the sounds as he wrote.†   (source)
  • Some of the categories are harder to figure out, like "things you recite" (poetry, the Pledge of Allegiance) or "things you squeeze" (a tube of toothpaste, someone's hand).†   (source)
  • He steps up, stands at the edge of the sidewalk like an actor at center stage, and recites Hamlet in a Shakespearean accent.†   (source)
  • It did seem rehearsed, like Tobias had gone over the steps in his mind, recited the words in front of a mirror.†   (source)
  • In a far corner, two kids not long out of their teens were manically reciting the Gettysburg Address.†   (source)
  • He had gone to wander along the jetties, reciting love poetry into the wind and crying with joy until daybreak.†   (source)
  • You make me feel like a little girl again — reciting my first lesson.†   (source)
  • You have to be in a certain mood to accept bad recitations of poetry.†   (source)
  • Then, with his hands at his belt, Lieutenant Pavelman called on a Chaplain Thomas to lead them in a recitation of the twenty-third psalm and in the singing of "What a Friend We Have in Jesus."†   (source)
  • The religious ceremonies of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are all characterized by reading aloud or "reciting."†   (source)
  • Instead, she began to busily type up notes from Estelle Hawkins Abbott's recitation.†   (source)
  • He recites the names of the trees, vines, shrubs, flowers that he's planted here over the years.†   (source)
  • Frode interrupted her recitation only once.†   (source)
  • So I began reciting all the books of the Bible from first to last, and I got to somewhere around Obadiah before I fell asleep.†   (source)
  • The chief of the escort guard recited the "morning prayer," which every prisoner was heartily sick of: "Attention, prisoners.†   (source)
  • There, at graveside services, they recited the Lord's Prayer.†   (source)
  • The woman with the photo stood up as Alex was reciting the charges.†   (source)
  • While the vows are recited, I stand behind Brittany and gather her into my arms, holding her snugly.†   (source)
  • I told him that I had left it at home by mistake, and casually recited a fictitious pass number.†   (source)
  • "Market," recited the duke: "an open space or covered building in which—"†   (source)
  • Someone began to recite the Kaddish, the prayer for the dead.†   (source)
  • Recited the D.A.R.E. pledge verbatim.†   (source)
  • The meeting was called to order and began with a heartfelt recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.†   (source)
  • And the doctor, dutiful, had recited the symptoms he'd memorized from the text: flaccid muscle tone, delayed growth and mental development, possible heart complications, early death.†   (source)
  • I just ain't going to have you 'round here reciting the scriptures in vain—you hear me?†   (source)
  • I'd heard these words so often I could have recited them with her.†   (source)
  • Liam looked over his shoulder, trying to divide his attention between me and the boy reciting the sordid tale of my life.†   (source)
  • I'm going to take the children away from Pap," Johnnie said in a curious voice, rapid and monotonous, as though she were reciting something to herself.†   (source)
  • It's taught with a psychology angle, and I'm just learning so much… And the TA who runs my recitation is brilliant.†   (source)
  • He recited the Crooked Man nursery rhyme, and grinned.†   (source)
  • So Sophos recited what he knew while we ate our lunch.†   (source)
  • His occasional talks at weekly Party meetings were perfect recitations of the Party line.†   (source)
  • While I worked I mainly counted in my head or recited the poems I knew good to myself.†   (source)
  • There is a great rustling as fifty girls stand at attention and recite the pledge, chins tilted upward toward the future.†   (source)
  • He recited this in staccato fashion as he had a million times before.†   (source)
  • On liftoff he silently recited his usual prayer when heading into someplace hot: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name.†   (source)
  • She would practice while she was washing, cleaning, sewing and cooking: I often saw her lips moving as she silently recited passages from her book.†   (source)
  • Then a tender boy of seven would be reciting from the Koran one day with his classmates when the floorboards would give way with a fearful crack and his arteries would be severed by this offensive and unreliable substance.†   (source)
  • While others simply read it, Oscar memorized it and would recite it to anyone who asked.†   (source)
  • Do people write their own or do they recite it from other authors?†   (source)
  • Sitting in front of the eye chart during his physical, he managed to hold the "blinder" card in such a way that he could recite the letters twice with his good eye.†   (source)
  • And when the mood took me, I whistled or recited poems that I made up on the spot.†   (source)
  • She sings softly, as if reciting a child's nursery rhyme.†   (source)
  • The first couple weeks are a rehash of rules for equipment usage and safety procedures that I could recite verbatim if anybody asked.†   (source)
  • I tried, as a sort of prickly numbness took over my lower half, to recite the poems in my head.†   (source)
  • I did it last year with Northern Ireland and reciting the counties (you remember them by the mnemonic FAT LAD—Fermanagh, Antrim, Tyrone, Londonderry, Armagh, Down) can be very impressive to trot out when you are accused of not concentrating.†   (source)
  • But Bilbo did not sing or recite.†   (source)
  • Artus looked over the lines a final time, then closed the book and began to recite: By right and rule For need of might I call on thee I call on thee By blood bound By honor given I call on thee I call on thee For life and light your protection given From within this ring by the power of Heaven I call on thee I call on thee With the last word, the tempest around them suddenly began to fade.†   (source)
  • There is a calmness in her face as she recites an ancient mythical contract made between herself and the man so long ago the language has been forgotten.†   (source)
  • I didn't answer, just recited the Miranda warning.†   (source)
  • She fed her powdered eggshell so her milk would be good and her teeth strong, and recited the prayers of Bethlehem for a healthy delivery.†   (source)
  • They will also find you guilty,' Major Danby recited, 'of rape, extensive black-market operations, acts of sabotage and the sale of military secrets to the enemy.†   (source)
  • I remember how Mama, Aunt, Grandmother, and even Elder Sister recited certain phrases to encourage us.†   (source)
  • When we walked into the empty library, Marian was wandering around the stacks in her stockings, wailing to herself like a crazy person from a Greek tragedy, which she was prone to reciting.†   (source)
  • Most of the time, he's simply reciting, calling out a subject heading from the text or a worksheet.†   (source)
  • We all sat at a common table for meals, and I listened to them recite to one another the list of birds they had seen that day.†   (source)
  • And if asked, Vlad could have recited the letter by heart.†   (source)
  • "It's got two bedrooms, shower room, reception room, and open-plan kitchen," he recites.†   (source)
  • With great effort, he kept his singsong recitation short.†   (source)
  • Svensson knew the history of biowarfare well enough to recite in his sleep.†   (source)
  • He recited about a third of the page word for word, including the commentaries and the Maimonidean legal decisions of the Talmudic disputations.†   (source)
  • He led them in prayer and recited a quick obituary: Seth was born May 10, 1917, in Ford County, where he died on October 2, 1988.†   (source)
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