All 14 Uses of
recital
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Dantes obeyed, and commenced what he called his history, but which consisted only of the account of a voyage to India, and two or three voyages to the Levant until he arrived at the recital of his last cruise, with the death of Captain Leclere, and the receipt of a packet to be delivered by himself to the grand marshal; his interview with that personage, and his receiving, in place of the packet brought, a letter addressed to a Monsieur Noirtier—his arrival at Marseilles, and interview…†
Chpt 17-18
- His recital finished, the abbe reflected long and earnestly.†
Chpt 17-18 *
- The worthy shipowner knew, from Penelon's recital, of the captain's brave conduct during the storm, and tried to console him.†
Chpt 29-30
- And the thing was so much the more annoying, as, according to the characteristic modesty of a Frenchman, Albert had quitted Paris with the full conviction that he had only to show himself in Italy to carry all before him, and that upon his return he should astonish the Parisian world with the recital of his numerous love-affairs.†
Chpt 33-34
- "You will describe it to me," replied Franz, "and the recital from your lips will make as great an impression on me as if I had witnessed it.†
Chpt 35-36
- 'Relate your story, madame,' said he, wishing, no doubt, to profit by the absence of the husband, so that the latter could not influence the wife's story, to see if the two recitals tallied.†
Chpt 43-44
- All this was achieved in much less time than is occupied in the recital.†
Chpt 47-48
- Madame Danglars had listened to this recital with a sigh, a tear, or a shriek for every detail.†
Chpt 67-68
- "And now," said Morrel, when he had finished the first part of his recital, "now I have told you of my love and my hopes, may I inform you of my intentions?"†
Chpt 73-74
- You prohibited my mentioning my father's name to her, but perhaps she will allude to him of her own accord in the course of the recital, and you have no idea how delighted I should be to hear our name pronounced by such beautiful lips."†
Chpt 77-78
- "You were saying, signora," said Albert, who was paying the most implicit attention to the recital, "that the garrison of Yanina, fatigued with long service"— "Had treated with the Serasker [*] Koorshid, who had been sent by the sultan to gain possession of the person of my father; it was then that Ali Tepelini—after having sent to the sultan a French officer in whom he reposed great confidence—resolved to retire to the asylum which he had long before prepared for himself, and which he…†
Chpt 77-78
- Then, patting the young girl on the head, he continued, "Haidee is very courageous, and she sometimes even finds consolation in the recital of her misfortunes."†
Chpt 77-78
- The answer known, he had yielded to Albert's wish to be introduced to Haidee, and allowed the conversation to turn on the death of Ali, and had not opposed Haidee's recital (but having, doubtless, warned the young girl, in the few Romaic words he spoke to her, not to implicate Morcerf's father).†
Chpt 87-88
- But Valentine was so weak that this recital scarcely produced the same effect it would have done had she been in her usual state of health.†
Chpt 99-100
Definition:
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(recital) a performance such as music, dance, or a poetry reading