Both Uses of
chronicle
in
War and Peace
- As for the past two years people have amused themselves by finding husbands for me (most of whom I don't even know), the matchmaking chronicles of Moscow now speak of me as the future Countess Bezukhova.†
Chpt 1 *
- But in the Crusades we already see an event occupying its definite place in history and without which we cannot imagine the modern history of Europe, though to the chroniclers of the Crusades that event appeared as merely due to the will of certain people.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(chronicle) a record of events; or the act of creating such a record or telling others of the events