All 4 Uses of
recite
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- I could recite you the whole of Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, Titus Livius, Tacitus, Strada, Jornandes, Dante, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Spinoza, Machiavelli, and Bossuet.†
Chpt 15-16 *
- You would hardly have recited your touching history before it would go forth to the world, and be deemed unlikely and unnatural.†
Chpt 55-56
- She then recited all the letters of the alphabet from A down to N. When she arrived at that letter the paralytic made her understand that she had spoken the initial letter of the thing he wanted.†
Chpt 57-58
- Thus the poor sailor lives in the recollection of those who narrate his history; his terrible story is recited in the chimney-corner, and a shudder is felt at the description of his transit through the air to be swallowed by the deep.†
Chpt 113-114
Definition:
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(recite) to say or read something aloud -- especially something previously memorized such as a poem
or:
to say in detail -- especially a list of things