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  • Morrie would walk that final bridge between life and death, and narrate the trip.†   (source)
  • Mae noticed, as they narrated the story of his recent health, that her mother was brighter, more buoyant.†   (source)
  • Young surfing moviemakers began to turn their cameras toward the ocean and created a series of documentary-style 16mm films, often with humorous narration, a few bikinis, and lots and lots of incredible surfing and breathtaking wipeouts.†   (source)
  • As they walked, Janson narrated the journey as if he were a tour guide.†   (source)
  • Langdon's progress around his side of the Pantheon was being hampered somewhat by the guide on his heels, now continuing his tireless narration as Langdon prepared to check the final alcove.†   (source)
  • I was narrating the part on the horrors of the old China.†   (source)
  • I thought we might use Finnick to intro and narrate the spots.†   (source)
  • The minstrels provided music and narration as their younger counterparts acted out the stories.†   (source)
  • Have me narrate the most painful part.†   (source)
  • "And after many close calls," Alyss narrated, "your life in danger every second, you defeat the soldiers and stab your sword into Redd."†   (source)
  • It is easy for you to see, no doubt, hearing the story like this, conveniently arranged and narrated.†   (source)
  • In this moment the narration describes her as a bird, from the feathery edges of her drawers to her breast like that of some "dark-plumaged bird."†   (source)
  • We listen to classical KUSC on my car radio and it's like having a DJ on board, with Nathaniel narrating and patiently tutoring me.†   (source)
  • Gavril, of course, was in a corner, speaking into a camera, narrating the events as they happened.†   (source)
  • A British man began narrating, his voice melodramatic, like he was telling a ghost story that just might be true.†   (source)
  • Paul tried; to cry out to him, to warn him, but every time he opened his mouth nothing came out but a neatly reasoned paragraph of narration , although this paragraph was different each time he tried to scream, it always opened the same way: 'One day, about a week later ....'†   (source)
  • It is, as Bruner and Joan Lucariello write in their commentary on the segment, a remarkable act of world making...she uses tonal emphasis, prolongation of key words, and a kind of "reenactment" reminiscent of the we-are-there cinema verite (with her friend Carl practically narrated through the door as he enters).†   (source)
  • He stepped to the center of the stage and began his narration.†   (source)
  • But Carla does and narrates what she sees.†   (source)
  • During the Terry-narrated tour on the way to the attic, Molly gets the story: Vivian and her husband owned and ran a department store in Minnesota, and when they sold it twenty years ago, they took a sailing trip up the East Coast to celebrate their retirement.†   (source)
  • Babette's voice resumed its tone of straight narration.†   (source)
  • I could almost hear a man with a British accent narrating the action.†   (source)
  • Of three other murders Dewey had since investigated, two were equally obvious (a pair of railroad workers robbed and killed an elderly farmer, 11-1-52; a drunken husband beat and kicked his wife to death, 6-17-56), but the third case, as it was once conversationally narrated by Dewey, was not without several original touches: "It all started out at Stevens Park.†   (source)
  • Farmer called them "narrating Haiti."†   (source)
  • After her walk past the CBS camera, the First Lady starts her television special by narrating a brief history of the White House.†   (source)
  • He was standing on a tree stump before the astounded fortune teller, his eyes closed and one hand atop her head, and seemed to be narrating a dream as it came to him: "...and your grandson's grandson will pilot a giant ship that shuttles between the Earth and the moon like an omnibus, and on the moon he'll have a very small house, and he'll fall behind on the mortgage and have to take in lodgers, and one of those lodgers will be a beautiful woman with whom he'll fall very deeply in moon-love, which isn't quite the same as Earth-love because of the difference in gravity there ..."†   (source)
  • Perhaps the pilot should narrate.†   (source)
  • In pantomime, Chief Joyi would fling his spear and creep along the veld as he narrated the victories and defeats.†   (source)
  • Racing, a sport whose sustained dramatic action was ideally suited to narration, became a staple of the airwave.†   (source)
  • The officer then proceeded to narrate to the assembled onlookers his version of what had happened.†   (source)
  • He pretended to hate classical music, but at six o'clock on Saturday evening—which was how they knew Saturdays were Saturdays—he never missed a radio program called The Master's Masters, broadcast from Danang and narrated by Master Sergeant Jake Eames.†   (source)
  • And still another fire, around which sat a dozen enthralled listeners as a stocky man with a broad charismatic face and a mane of white hair narrated a ghost story in a reverberant voice.†   (source)
  • John starts talking, but only in English: he is narrating what he sees, in the tone of a reporter.†   (source)
  • Mama's hands shook a little but she looked confident, her voice ringing with the same force and clarity it had when we had walked the Freedom Trail and she had narrated every little stone path and building along the way.†   (source)
  • "Unskilled worker," he narrates, "can train in a short amount of time.†   (source)
  • Then a second video appeared on the same social media Web site, narrated by the same man who spoke with an East London accent.†   (source)
  • For many years, I have refused to listen as his obsessive voice narrated the malignant litany of crimes against my boyhood.†   (source)
  • When she was tired, or when she just did not feel like talking any more, or when she had forgotten certain things, someone else would always pick up the narration.†   (source)
  • Deferent, he began to narrate for their entertainment a surfer orgy he had been to the week before, involving a five-gallon can of kidney suet, a small automobile with a sun roof, and a trained seal.†   (source)
  • Reese Witherspoon narrates the audio edition of the book.
  • Who will narrate Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf?
    narrate = tell (the story--in this case interspersed with a primarily musical performance)
  • Eragon had narrated his experiences before, so he had no trouble reiterating them now for the queen.†   (source)
  • There were other sounds too-like an old-fashioned film projector and a tinny voice narrating.†   (source)
  • This is tricky, since Jake, who narrates, never says.†   (source)
  • You said during your ....narration that Riders lived for hundreds of years, but that's impossible.†   (source)
  • You shouldn't try to eat while I'm narrating, anyway!]†   (source)
  • That's not right," Grover murmured, but Geryon just kept, narrating the tour.†   (source)
  • Otherwise you couldn't be narrating this story.†   (source)
  • During the course of Orik's narration, Eragon thought to ask about Vermund.†   (source)
  • I narrated this small story at great length.†   (source)
  • Farmer looks up, and for a moment he's narrating Haiti again.†   (source)
  • I was narrating Haiti on my own, in my mind, bouncing up and down in the cab of the truck.†   (source)
  • The story, narrated by Rey, takes place on Tatooine, where lovebirds Rey and Chewbacca have stopped off to pick up some cargo from an eight-foot-tall dude named Kalkino.†   (source)
  • Georgia was narrating, saying something about how many sharks, when eating turtles, will turn their stomachs inside out, vomiting the shells after digesting the fleshy parts of the reptile.†   (source)
  • He narrates the entire forty-minute symphony, fingering an imaginary bass at the start of the fourth movement, a suspenseful rhythm-driven march that creeps along hauntingly and then breaks into a full run, the entire orchestra joining the parade.†   (source)
  • For an English professor, and for any avid reader, having a blithely ignorant (and only recently clued-in) husband narrate the saga of his wife's longtime infidelity is about as good as it gets.†   (source)
  • For one thing, as many potential readers already know, Alex narrates in a patois he calls Nadsat, a mix of English and slang words, many of them of Slavic origin.†   (source)
  • Nabokov has to make his middle-aged protagonist, Humbert Humbert, depraved, certainly, but part of the revulsion we feel at his interest in his underage stepdaughter Lolita lies in the way our sympathy is co-opted by this monster narrating the story.†   (source)
  • His most straightforward narration of a sexual scene is when he picks up two prepubescent girls; even then, he's more interested in their cries of pain and outrage than in the activity occasioning them.†   (source)
  • Through the narration, the whole wandering epic, skimmed here, protracted there, Brian was confident that the man was slipshod only in the telling.†   (source)
  • "And these sea monsters," Kate narrated up ahead, "can grow five hundred feet long in the deep ocean.†   (source)
  • A Russian tells a joke to a huddle of burly men and I stand on the edge, startled to hear the name Speedy Gonzalez mixed into the rolling narration.†   (source)
  • He also named many of the holds and fallen towers below, and he gave something of their history to Eragon and Saphira, although only Eragon paid heed to the old dragon's narration.†   (source)
  • Probably at Howard's insistence, he let the press come into the barn to see the horse, albeit without narration from the trainer.†   (source)
  • "It bothers me even to look at it," Farmer said, narrating Haiti for what would be the last time in a while.†   (source)
  • Besides, I was trying to get the hang of his cosmology, so I egged him on, sometimes even badgered him into narrating Haiti.†   (source)
  • Farmer narrated Haiti in the truck on the way to Cange, and White seemed appropriately horrified, but Farmer was still wary of him and didn't try to hide the fact.†   (source)
  • In the film library I came across The Salem Witch Trials, part of the old "You Are There" programs, which Cronkite narrated.†   (source)
  • Whenever some crisis welled up on the island, I had learned that the children would never come to me directly and narrate the story as it happened.†   (source)
  • Lois wanted me to drive her to Edna's house so she could narrate her latest domestic misadventure to a sympathetic ear.†   (source)
  • The moment he had completed narrating some incident in school.†   (source)
  • Thus it appears that though these myths of creation narrate of the remotest past, they speak at the same time of the present origin of the individual.†   (source)
  • Gerald knew that northward beyond that stream the land was still held by the Cherokees, so it was with amazement that he heard the stranger jeer at suggestions of trouble with the Indians and narrate how thriving towns were growing up and plantations prospering in the new country.†   (source)
  • Rutherford flicked his cigar as if the narration had excited him quite as much as he hoped it had me.†   (source)
  • In any case the narrator (whose identity will be made known in due course) would have little claim to competence for a task like this, had not chance put him in the way of gathering much information, and had he not been, by the force of things, closely involved in all that he proposes to narrate.†   (source)
  • He narrated rapidly and easily, and in doing so came again under the spell of that strange, timeless world; its beauty overwhelmed him as he spoke of it, and more than once he felt himself reading from a page of memory, so clearly had ideas and phrases impressed themselves.†   (source)
  • And yet his mention is less a narration than a reference, having to do hardly at all with details.†   (source)
  • He narrated: 'I just saw his head bobbing, and I dashed my boat-hook in the water.†   (source)
  • This incident inspired Glenn to a Homeric narration of his hog-raising experience.†   (source)
  • And he briefly narrated what the maid had seen, and showed the broken stick.†   (source)
  • When Mrs. Carey asked for an explanation the Vicar narrated the facts.†   (source)
  • The manager at once began to narrate what he knew.†   (source)
  • It narrated the success of a farm-lassie in clearing her brother of a charge of forgery.†   (source)
  • He laughed while narrating this part at the recollection of his polite alacrity.†   (source)
  • A tussle, a thumping of loose boards, silence, weary narration from Cy: "Mrs. Kennicott?†   (source)
  • CAN ONE NARRATE TIME—time as such, in and of itself?†   (source)
  • And he narrated what had just passed concerning the passport.†   (source)
  • The judicious historian abstains from narrating precisely what ensued.†   (source)
  • Since the events about to be narrated, nothing in fact has changed at Yonville.†   (source)
  • Milady therefore continued, coloring her narrations more and more.†   (source)
  • These narrations seemed to belong to another age.†   (source)
  • The poor girl's wretchedness at this time was beyond all fancy or narration.†   (source)
  • Let us narrate what was passing in Marius' thoughts.†   (source)
  • My own strength is exhausted, and I must tell, in a few words, what remains of my hideous narration.†   (source)
  • These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings.†   (source)
  • I will not narrate the story of my life to you; you will hear it one of these days.†   (source)
  • She said nothing, however, till the narration was all done, and matters had been brought up to the present time.†   (source)
  • It is narrated that in the eighteen-seventies an old lady, a very devout Methodist, moved from Colchester to a house in the neighborhood of the City Road, in London, where, mistaking the Hall of Science for a chapel, she sat at the feet of Charles Bradlaugh for many years, entranced by his eloquence, without questioning his orthodoxy or moulting a feather of her faith.†   (source)
  • Odette narrated this episode almost as if it were a joke, either because it appeared to her to be quite natural, or because she thought that she was thereby minimising its importance, or else so as not to appear ashamed.†   (source)
  • Nothing could be more natural than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. Lestrade of Scotland Yard.†   (source)
  • But in regard to himself, he proceeded to unfold a tale of only modest adventure, which was very different from the one Clyde had narrated, a tale which had less of nerves and worry and more of a sturdy courage and faith in his own luck and possibilities.†   (source)
  • She was wretched—O so wretched—at the perception that to her companions the dairyman's story had been rather a humorous narration than otherwise; none of them but herself seemed to see the sorrow of it; to a certainty, not one knew how cruelly it touched the tender place in her experience.†   (source)
  • With interminable indignation she narrated her retorts to "that fresh head-barber" and the drastic things she would do to him if he persisted in saying that she was "better at gassing than at hoof-paring."†   (source)
  • Then, if they so delight in the narration, how is it possible that they can be offended—and properly offended—at the suggestion that they might make attempts upon your wife's honour?†   (source)
  • In actuality, Anderson developed an artful style in which, following Mark Twain and preceding Ernest Hemingway, he tried to use American speech as the base of a tensed rhythmic prose that has an economy and a shapeliness seldom found in ordinary speech or even oral narration.†   (source)
  • 'At first old Van Shuyten would tell me to go to the devil,' he narrated with keen enjoyment; 'but I stuck to him, and talked and talked, till at last he got afraid I would talk the hind-leg off his favorite dog, so he gave me some cheap things and a few guns, and told me he hoped he would never see my face again.†   (source)
  • Partly as we so sat, and partly afterwards, on the way to Aucharn, each of us narrated his adventures; and I shall here set down so much of Alan's as seems either curious or needful.†   (source)
  • Judge Scott shook his head sadly at luncheon table, when his son narrated the lesson he had given White Fang.†   (source)
  • Time is the element of narration, just as it is the element of life—is inextricably bound up with it, as bodies are in space.†   (source)
  • A young friend of Szedvilas', recently come from abroad, had become a clerk in a store on Ashland Avenue, and he narrated with glee a trick that had been played upon an unsuspecting countryman by his boss.†   (source)
  • And the prince proceeded to narrate his meeting with Rogojin in the train and the whole of the latter's story.†   (source)
  • The personality of the artist passes into the narration itself, flowing round and round the persons and the action like a vital sea.†   (source)
  • He was ashamed at baiting the man, realizing that the absurdity of the story rested in the immaturity of the attitude combined with the sophisticated method of its narration.†   (source)
  • After a few drinks Goldberger began, with some hesitation, to narrate how he had had a quarrel over his best girl with a professional "cardsharp," who had hit him in the jaw.†   (source)
  • As he walked on he preconsidered the terms in which he would narrate the incident to the boys: "So, I just looked at him—coolly, you know, and looked at her.†   (source)
  • He had a long and enviable list of triumphs to narrate, and though they took leave not to believe all he said, evidence forced them to acknowledge that he did not altogether lie.†   (source)
  • Never (she used to say, with streaming tears, when she narrated that experience), never had she felt more at peace with all men or thought more kindly of the world.†   (source)
  • That the unhappy event which has been narrated could not have happened at a worse juncture was but too true.†   (source)
  • There was but one thing happened worth narrating; and that is the visit I had of Robin Oig, one of the sons of the notorious Rob Roy.†   (source)
  • And once there, as he now narrated, it suddenly occurred to him how peculiar and suspicious were all the circumstances surrounding his present position.†   (source)
  • "They were too taken aback to say anything more at first," he narrated steadily, "and what could I have to say to them?"†   (source)
  • And indeed we posed the question about whether one could narrate time precisely in order to say that we actually have something like that in mind with this ongoing story.†   (source)
  • Philip was interested in her shiftless life, and she made him laugh with the fantastic narration of her struggles.†   (source)
  • He was humorously narrating some achievement to a group which included Nat Hicks, Del Snafflin, Bert Tybee the bartender, and A. Tennyson O'Hearn the shyster lawyer.†   (source)
  • He was reciting almost verbatim the words and intonations even of the other boys at the hotel—Higby, Ratterer, Eddie Doyle—who, having narrated the nature of such situations to him, and how girls occasionally lied out of pressing dilemmas in this way, had made perfectly clear to him what was meant.†   (source)
  • Not many days after the last incident narrated, something befell Billy Budd that more gravelled him than aught that had previously occurred.†   (source)
  • —And then there was Stanislovas and his awful fate—that brief story which Marija had narrated so calmly, with such dull indifference!†   (source)
  • But since it can "deal" with time, it is clear that time, which is the element of the narrative, can also become its subject; and although it would be going too far to say that one can "narrate time," it is apparently not such an absurd notion to want to narrate about time—so that a term like "time novel" may well take on an oddly dreamlike double meaning.†   (source)
  • He had a gift for story-telling, and his adventures lost nothing of their romance and their laughter in his narration.†   (source)
  • The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction can not so readily be achieved in a narration essentially having less to do with fable than with fact.†   (source)
  • From the way he narrated that part I was at liberty to infer he was partly stunned by the discovery he had made—the discovery about himself—and no doubt was at work trying to explain it away to the only man who was capable of appreciating all its tremendous magnitude.†   (source)
  • Jurgis knew nothing of this, but went back to "Packers' Avenue," and in front of the "Central Time Station" he saw one of his companions, breathless and wild with excitement, narrating to an ever growing throng how the four had been attacked and surrounded by a howling mob, and had been nearly torn to pieces.†   (source)
  • His eyes seemed to look far beyond the wall at which they stared; and he narrated how, one night, a messenger arrived from his "poor Mohammed," requiring his presence at the "residenz"—as he called it—which was distant some nine or ten miles by a bridle-path over a cultivated plain, with patches of forest here and there.†   (source)
  • He had told her how flirtatious he was and had amused her often with the narration of some adventure which Griffiths under the seal of secrecy had imparted to him.†   (source)
  • Concisely he narrated all that had led up to the catastrophe, omitting nothing in Claggart's accusation and deposing as to the manner in which the prisoner had received it.†   (source)
  • With delicate sarcasm he narrated the last weeks, the patience with which Cronshaw bore the well-meaning clumsiness of the young student who had appointed himself his nurse, and the pitifulness of that divine vagabond in those hopelessly middle-class surroundings.†   (source)
  • After the mysterious interview in the fore-chains—the one so abruptly ended there by Billy—nothing especially german to the story occurred until the events now about to be narrated.†   (source)
  • Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges; hence the conclusion of such a narration is apt to be less finished than an architectural finial.†   (source)
  • Of a series of incidents within a brief term rapidly following each other, the adequate narration may take up a term less brief, especially if explanation or comment here and there seem requisite to the better understanding of such incidents.†   (source)
  • It was not very long prior to the time of the narration that follows that he had entered the King's Service, having been impressed on the Narrow Seas from a homeward-bound English merchantman into a seventy-four outward-bound, H.M.S. Indomitable; which ship, as was not unusual in those hurried days, having been obliged to put to sea short of her proper complement of men.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • He was irate and defiant; and Tom, though he espoused his father's quarrels and shared his father's sense of injury, was not without some of the feeling that oppressed Maggie when Mr. Tulliver got louder and more angry in narration and assertion with the increased leisure of dessert.†   (source)
  • But she was made exultant by having her chin pinched and her cheek kissed by Mr. Farebrother—an incident which she narrated to her mother and father.†   (source)
  • He listened attentively to my narration of the circumstances leading to the savage outrage, and gave many proofs of his strong indignation at it.†   (source)
  • He gave her a very plain, intelligible account of the whole; a narration in which she saw a great deal of most characteristic proceeding.†   (source)
  • But, before I proceed to narrate it, and before I pass on to all the changes it involved, I must give one chapter to Estella.†   (source)
  • Le Don was instantly released, upon our narration of the circumstances (with some comments from Dupin) at the bureau of the Prefect of Police.†   (source)
  • In place of that eager and garrulous narration with which a white youth would have endeavored to communicate, and perhaps exaggerate, that which had passed out in the darkness of the plain, the young warrior was seemingly content to let his deeds speak for themselves.†   (source)
  • Miss Rebecca asked him a great number of questions about India, which gave him an opportunity of narrating many interesting anecdotes about that country and himself.†   (source)
  • Leaving her and Oliver to compare notes at leisure, Mr. Brownlow led the way into another room; and there, heard from Rose a full narration of her interview with Nancy, which occasioned him no little surprise and perplexity.†   (source)
  • Natural philosophy is the genius that has regulated my fate; I desire, therefore, in this narration, to state those facts which led to my predilection for that science.†   (source)
  • Finally, as a last resort, I hauled out everything I could remember from my early schooldays, and I tried to narrate our adventures in Latin.†   (source)
  • While narrating these things, every time Queequeg received the tomahawk from me, he flourished the hatchet-side of it over the sleeper's head.†   (source)
  • It is another peculiarity of the comprehensive wisdom of the Bible that scarce a chapter, unless it be strictly narration, can be turned to, that does not contain some searching truth that is applicable to the condition of every human heart, as well as to the temporal state of its owner, either through the workings of that heart, or even in a still more direct form.†   (source)
  • If a Templar would smile at the qualifications of Marmaduke to fill the judicial seat he occupied, we are certain that a graduate of Leyden or Edinburgh would be extremely amused with this true narration of the servitude of Elnathan in the temple of Aesculapius.†   (source)
  • The reader shall be spared a chapter on Jewish politics; a few words upon the subject, however, are essential to such as may follow the succeeding narration critically.†   (source)
  • Miss Bates had just done as Patty opened the door; and her visitors walked upstairs without having any regular narration to attend to, pursued only by the sounds of her desultory good-will.†   (source)
  • That led to his narrating the circumstances in detail, and expressing something of his anxiety to discover what had really become of the man, and to repel the dark suspicions that clouded about his mother's house.†   (source)
  • "This chap must be ironed at once, brother Dunham," said Cap, as soon as Pathfinder finished his narration; "he must be turned over to the master-at-arms, if there is any such officer on fresh water, and a court-martial ought to be ordered as soon as we reach port."†   (source)
  • Of the dungeons there had been strange things narrated—fables I had always deemed them—but yet strange, and too ghastly to repeat, save in a whisper.†   (source)
  • Roars of laughter attended the narration, and were taken up and prolonged by all the smaller fry, who were lying, in any quantity, about on the floor, or perched in every corner.†   (source)
  • I narrated all I knew, and closed by suggesting the idea of letting him remain in as indulgent confinement as possible till something less harsh might be done—though indeed I hardly knew what.†   (source)
  • One wet afternoon, some four months earlier than the occurrence lately narrated, this young lady had been seated alone with a book.†   (source)
  • The morning after the conversation just narrated, Newman reverted to his intention of meeting Mademoiselle Noemie at the Louvre.†   (source)
  • It is not, however, during this interval that we are closely concerned with her; our attention is engaged again on a certain day in the late spring-time, shortly after her return to Palazzo Crescentini and a year from the date of the incidents just narrated.†   (source)
  • Dr. Sloper had travelled but little, and he took the liberty of not believing everything this anecdotical idler narrated.†   (source)
  • Mr Snawley may be remembered as the sleek and sanctified gentleman who confided two sons (in law) to the parental care of Mr Squeers, as narrated in the fourth chapter of this history.†   (source)
  • But Miss Nancy was not ashamed of that, for even while she was dressing she narrated to her aunt how she and Priscilla had packed their boxes yesterday, because this morning was baking morning, and since they were leaving home, it was desirable to make a good supply of meat-pies for the kitchen; and as she concluded this judicious remark, she turned to the Miss Gunns that she might not commit the rudeness of not including them in the conversation.†   (source)
  • Thus ended Peggotty's narration.†   (source)
  • Some of these, as he detailed them, interested and bewildered me; although, perhaps, the terms, and the general manner of the narration had their weight.†   (source)
  • Berg evidently enjoyed narrating all this, and did not seem to suspect that others, too, might have their own interests.†   (source)
  • But since these narrations cannot be made public without great difficulty, owing to the obligation an editor is under not to deal unexpectedly with matters that are not virginibus puerisque, the chances are heavily in favor of the Censor escaping all remonstrance.†   (source)
  • Henchard paused a moment, threw himself back so that his elbow rested on the table, his forehead being shaded by his hand, which, however, did not hide the marks of introspective inflexibility on his features as he narrated in fullest detail the incidents of the transaction with the sailor.†   (source)
  • About a week subsequently to the incidents above narrated, Miss Temple, who had written to Mr. Lloyd, received his answer: it appeared that what he said went to corroborate my account.†   (source)
  • The first proof that Cap gave of his not entering so fully as those around him into the solemnity of the moment, was by commencing a narration of the events which had just led to the deaths of Muir and Arrowhead.†   (source)
  • The events of the day were told quietly and in the simplest words, and until he was through there was no interruption; nor did the listener in the chair so much as move a hand during the narration; but for his eyes, wide open and bright, and an occasional long-drawn breath, he might have been accounted an effigy.†   (source)
  • —Methodical, or well arranged, or very well delivered, it could not be expected to be; but it contained, when separated from all the feebleness and tautology of the narration, a substance to sink her spirit—especially with the corroborating circumstances, which her own memory brought in favour of Mr. Knightley's most improved opinion of Harriet.†   (source)
  • He had already narrated the adventure which had brought about Fred's sharing in his work, but had kept back the further result.†   (source)
  • And he narrated his whole conversation with the French doctor and the reasons that convinced him that Metivier was a spy.†   (source)
  • Her corn-cake, in all its varieties of hoe-cake, dodgers, muffins, and other species too numerous to mention, was a sublime mystery to all less practised compounders; and she would shake her fat sides with honest pride and merriment, as she would narrate the fruitless efforts that one and another of her compeers had made to attain to her elevation.†   (source)
  • It does not enter into our scheme to narrate in detail Dr. Sloper's proceedings in the eastern hemisphere.†   (source)
  • The events narrated in the last chapter were yet but two days old, when Oliver found himself, at three o'clock in the afternoon, in a travelling-carriage rolling fast towards his native town.†   (source)
  • He narrated the circumstance a dozen times to Horrocks in the course of the evening, and greatly to the discomfiture of Miss Horrocks.†   (source)
  • As all the parties acted and spoke together, much less time was consumed in the occurrence of these events than in their narration.†   (source)
  • It made a great impression on me, and I remembered it a long time afterwards; as I shall have occasion to narrate when the time comes.†   (source)
  • Though of little experience in such matters, himself, he had heard so much of Indian artifices through traditions, had listened with such breathless interest to the narration of the escapes of the elder warriors, and, in short, was so well schooled in the theory of his calling, that it was almost as impossible for him to make any gross blunder on such an occasion, as it was for a well grounded scholar, who had commenced correctly, to fail in solving his problem in mathematics.†   (source)
  • "I should think I did," said the old man, who had now gone through that complimentary process necessary to bring him up to the point of narration; "and a fine old gentleman he was—as fine, and finer nor the Mr. Lammeter as now is.†   (source)
  • Here Mr. Tulliver put his stick between his legs, and took out his snuff-box, for the greater enjoyment of this anecdote, which dropped from him in fragments, as if he every other moment lost narration in vision.†   (source)
  • As they picked their way in the gray, deceptive dawn, between the manure-heaps of the village street, Newman's new acquaintance narrated the particulars of the duel.†   (source)
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