All 7 Uses of
recite
in
Story of My Life
- I read aloud to Miss Sullivan and recited passages from my favourite poets, which I had committed to memory; she corrected my pronunciation and helped me to phrase and inflect.†
Chpt 16
- For a while, indeed, I had to copy my Latin in braille, so that I could recite with the other girls.†
Chpt 18
- Just before the books came, Mr. Gilman had begun to remonstrate with Miss Sullivan on the ground that I was working too hard, and in spite of my earnest protestations, he reduced the number of my recitations.†
Chpt 19
- Mr. Jefferson recited the best dialogues of "Rip Van Winkle," in which the tear came close upon the smile.†
Chpt 22
- My fingers lighted upon a beautiful volume of Tennyson's poems, and when Miss Sullivan told me what it was I began to recite: Break, break, break On thy cold gray stones, O sea!†
Chpt 23
- I recited "The Chambered Nautilus," which was then my favorite poem.
Chpt 23 *recited = said aloud lines previously memorized
- I also recited "Laus Deo," and as I spoke the concluding verses, he placed in my hands a statue of a slave from whose crouching figure the fetters were falling, even as they fell from Peter's limbs when the angel led him forth out of prison.†
Chpt 23
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