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  • Sometimes he recited one of his favorite poems as she lay beside him, and she would listen with her eyes closed and almost feel the words.   (source)
    recited = say something previously memorized
  • Odessa Freeman's Twas the Night before Christmas followed, and it was more than a simple recitation; it was a dramatic performance.   (source)
    recitation = saying from memory
  • We are to get this poem by heart, twenty lines a night to be recited every morning.   (source)
    recited = said aloud
  • 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
  • It was obvious she had recited these same words to each group of newcomers, yet her voice held a sweetness and a patience quite out of keeping with the information she delivered.   (source)
    recited = said 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
  • 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
  • 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)
  • I searched my mind for a stanza to recite.   (source)
    recite = to say aloud (from memory)
  • Elouise, the daughter of the Baptist minister, recited "Invictus,"   (source)
    recited = said aloud the words from
  • 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)
  • Some guys in school hardly ever get up to recite or go to the blackboard.   (source)
    recite = say or read 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
  • Abuela knows each poem by heart, and recites them quite dramatically.   (source)
    recites = to say or read 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
  • What are you going to recite, Anne?   (source)
    recite = say aloud (from memory)
  • 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
  • Often I would have to walk several miles at night in order to recite my night-school lessons.   (source)
    recite = say 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
  • 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
  • My brothers and I learned to recite the Black Panthers' Ten-Point Program the same way other kids learn the Pledge of Allegiance.†   (source)
  • It was like hearing a phrase from a catchy song: I couldn't stop myself from reciting the next line.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • i'm reciting: yes, the sun's come up over a thousand times.†   (source)
  • Together they studied all the 30 chapters of the Quran, not just recitation but also interpretation, something few boys do.†   (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)
  • The one you recited to me on the plane.†   (source)
  • I wish you could have seen her new diary entries...far more interesting, they became.... Dear Tom," he recited, watching Harry's horrified face, 'I think I'm losing my memory.†   (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)
  • He was a detached, almost fanatically organized guy who maintained detailed time-management logs and could recite endless baseball statistics.†   (source)
  • He had no idea how to speak to God, so he recited snippets of prayers that he'd heard in movies.†   (source)
  • Officer Delinko fumbled for the microphone and recited the address of the construction site.†   (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)
  • Reenie enjoyed reciting the details of this — the nightgowns, the peignoirs, the kinds of lace on them, the pillowcases embroidered with monograms, the sheets and petticoats.†   (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)
  • "The age of the nobility has given way to the age of the common man," she said with the pride of one who has recited her times tables correctly.†   (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)
  • Yisgadal v'yiskadash sh'mei raba—may his name be magnified and made holy ...Lale recites the kaddish in a whisper.†   (source)
  • She remembered this as she listened to me reciting lyrics like I'd written them myself.†   (source)
  • We prayed together and we practised dhikr, the recitation of the ninety-nine revealed names of God.†   (source)
  • She recited the facts about the date of Mr. Caston's conviction, and then something quite unexpected happened.†   (source)
  • Her voice was flat, like a child reciting a lesson.†   (source)
  • She spoke like someone reciting a well-rehearsed speech.†   (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)
  • Thomas did, reciting every word he'd told the Keepers, hating how Teresa's eyes filled with worry—and terror.†   (source)
  • "Yeah, yeah, I know," Shay recited.†   (source)
  • Recite a litany.†   (source)
  • Marie-Laure's hands whisper across the houses as she recites the names of the streets.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I could recite the entire Sequoia student handbook.†   (source)
  • On the following mornings, more than one kid was heard reciting the new "pledge."†   (source)
  • I went over after breakfast one day, after sharing Ty's wordless meal and hearing him recite his plans for the day and the incidental information that he wouldn't be home for dinner.†   (source)
  • The woman with the photo stood up as Alex was reciting the charges.†   (source)
  • " 'FOR TO US A CHILD IS BORN,' " Owen recited, " 'TO US A SON IS GIVEN; AND THE GOVERNMENT WILL BE UPON HIS SHOULDER'—REMEMBER THAT?"†   (source)
  • In the stories that our mother recited, the holiest sages developed an extra eye right in the middle of their foreheads.†   (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)
  • "Family, Duty, Honor," she recited stiffly.†   (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)
  • "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)
  • Baba was reciting a long poem he had deciphered from ancient stone inscriptions.†   (source)
  • After reciting this to the others, Constance went straight to bed without brushing her teeth or saying good night.†   (source)
  • I recited our brief conversation to her.†   (source)
  • There were very few she could have recited all the way through.†   (source)
  • Qur'an meant "Recitation."†   (source)
  • Even four years later he could recite the chemical formulas that caused his tongue to swell up.†   (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)
  • He was gallant and cultivated; he recited verses and poems while making love to them.†   (source)
  • He can recite entire chapters of Scripture, and he knows law and medicine as well.†   (source)
  • Du Hai recited more phrases from the newspaper.†   (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)
  • Today I would like to recite to you a poem by Sir Walter Scott entitled lochinvar.'†   (source)
  • A lady started to recite the Lord's Prayer.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Annie recited a few poems.†   (source)
  • She recited it like it was a living thing.†   (source)
  • When my Catholic classmates recited their prayers, we Jews were required to stand and be silent.†   (source)
  • He used to go around reciting 'Annabel Lee' in a stupid voice, to make me mad.†   (source)
  • The children would read out loud or recite their times tables.†   (source)
  • It has seven sentences — short enough to recite in a moment of danger.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I thought she was going to tell me off, but instead she took a deep breath and recited her prophecy: "You shall sail the iron ship with warriors of bone, You shall find what you seek and make it your own, But despair for your life entombed within stone, And fail without friends, to fly home alone."†   (source)
  • In a far corner, two kids not long out of their teens were manically reciting the Gettysburg Address.†   (source)
  • If the Empire knew that Brom had recited it, he would not live to see a new month.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • He rubbed some of the water from the calabash on my forehead and recited more prayers, followed by the proclamation of my name.†   (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)
  • It did seem rehearsed, like Tobias had gone over the steps in his mind, recited the words in front of a mirror.†   (source)
  • Do people write their own or do they recite it from other authors?†   (source)
  • Chronicler penned them down numbly, reciting the sounds as he wrote.†   (source)
  • "I promise to try to be safe," I recited.†   (source)
  • They inquired after her studies and she was asked to recite a few stanzas from "The Daffodils."†   (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)
  • He steps up, stands at the edge of the sidewalk like an actor at center stage, and recites Hamlet in a Shakespearean accent.†   (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)
  • Once the omens fell, and came to rest on the cloth (or, to any spectators' dread, rolled off the cloth and away somewhere harder to interpret), the priest officiating was supposed to identify the pattern, match it with its associated passage of scripture, and recite that for those present.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Can you recite the 166th Psalm, Opa?†   (source)
  • Slow lee two went I. My habit on that path was reciting sentences forward and back, for the concentration improved my walking.†   (source)
  • "Mommy and Daddy call him my 'invisible playmate, ' " Danny said, reciting the words carefully.†   (source)
  • Marc Lee would lead it, usually speaking from the heart rather than reciting a memorized prayer.†   (source)
  • The religious ceremonies of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are all characterized by reading aloud or "reciting."†   (source)
  • Lurz began reciting: "I, Deborah Lacks ..."†   (source)
  • "For the devil has no power," said Dorothea softly, as if she were reciting an old rhyme, "except in the dark."†   (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)
  • He sounded like a small child reciting the alphabet from the beginning in an attempt to propel his mind to whatever follows "G."†   (source)
  • His occasional talks at weekly Party meetings were perfect recitations of the Party line.†   (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)
  • He sort of mumbles it, not wanting Hiro to waste his time reciting a bunch of known facts.†   (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)
  • Since I was young, I have always been able to recite the Twenty-third Psalm and several others from beginning to end.†   (source)
  • The meeting was called to order and began with a heartfelt recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.†   (source)
  • Hawk began reciting the last sentence Lincoln would ever hear, a series of corny insults that delighted the audience.†   (source)
  • He had gone to wander along the jetties, reciting love poetry into the wind and crying with joy until daybreak.†   (source)
  • Frode interrupted her recitation only once.†   (source)
  • One which was very important to us was that we knew we couldn't play sports or watch our favorite Saturday-night program, MacGyver—we all loved MacGyver, because it was the only Saturday-night program in English that we got in the Philippines—until we had successfully recited our five verses for the week.†   (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)
  • Yetta broke off her recitation, her mouth shaping into a round 0 of surprise.†   (source)
  • You make me feel like a little girl again — reciting my first lesson.†   (source)
  • We hyperventilate so hard we can barely hear her instructions, though any of the twenty of us could recite them rote.†   (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)
  • While I worked I mainly counted in my head or recited the poems I knew good to myself.†   (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)
  • Liam looked over his shoulder, trying to divide his attention between me and the boy reciting the sordid tale of my life.†   (source)
  • The chief of the escort guard recited the "morning prayer," which every prisoner was heartily sick of: "Attention, prisoners.†   (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)
  • We recited Lil's lines together all the way down into New York City that afternoon.†   (source)
  • When a plane flew over he would recite the name of the airline, its origin, route and destination.†   (source)
  • Recited the D.A.R.E. pledge verbatim.†   (source)
  • On liftoff he silently recited his usual prayer when heading into someplace hot: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name.†   (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)
  • His eyes never left mine as he recited the poem.†   (source)
  • While the vows are recited, I stand behind Brittany and gather her into my arms, holding her snugly.†   (source)
  • With great effort, he kept his singsong recitation short.†   (source)
  • So Sophos recited what he knew while we ate our lunch.†   (source)
  • Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead.†   (source)
  • "It's got two bedrooms, shower room, reception room, and open-plan kitchen," he recites.†   (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)
  • She intoned the words as if she were reciting a eulogy.†   (source)
  • There, at graveside services, they recited the Lord's Prayer.†   (source)
  • I'm not asking you to recite the Declaration of Independence at gunpoint.†   (source)
  • He recited the Crooked Man nursery rhyme, and grinned.†   (source)
  • I just ain't going to have you 'round here reciting the scriptures in vain—you hear me?†   (source)
  • "Market," recited the duke: "an open space or covered building in which—"†   (source)
  • And when the mood took me, I whistled or recited poems that I made up on the spot.†   (source)
  • Most of the time, he's simply reciting, calling out a subject heading from the text or a worksheet.†   (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)
  • He recites the names of the trees, vines, shrubs, flowers that he's planted here over the years.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • "Jesus wept," I would recite every week, short and sweet.†   (source)
  • She suspected she did not have the right kind of brains either, my father the one who can recite whole poems.†   (source)
  • Instead, she began to busily type up notes from Estelle Hawkins Abbott's recitation.†   (source)
  • There is a great rustling as fifty girls stand at attention and recite the pledge, chins tilted upward toward the future.†   (source)
  • The recitation continued while Max struggled in vain to brainstorm a suitable lesson.†   (source)
  • I didn't answer, just recited the Miranda warning.†   (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)
  • Chief Justice Earl Warren stands before him reciting the Presidential Oath of Office.†   (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)
  • Quite a recitation.†   (source)
  • I tried, as a sort of prickly numbness took over my lower half, to recite the poems in my head.†   (source)
  • In my excitement, I memorized it and can recite it still: ....The sea's like meadows seen Level; its saltness makes it look as green.†   (source)
  • Svensson knew the history of biowarfare well enough to recite in his sleep.†   (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 if asked, Vlad could have recited the letter by heart.†   (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)
  • You have to be in a certain mood to accept bad recitations of poetry.†   (source)
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