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Example sentences for "recited"

Lexicographically close words:
recitations; recitative; recitatives; recitativo; recite; reciter; reciters; recites; reciteth; reciting
  1. Jaya the doorkeeper being filled with wonder went and recited it in the presence of Parvati.

  2. Then Kalaratri with her friends recited the spells that enable witches to fly, and they flew up into the air, cow-house and all.

  3. And then the handsome prince recited the charm backwards, and immediately became visible to that princess.

  4. Then I performed my daily observances, and waited for the night, and after I had recited the evening prayer, it happened that I rapidly fell asleep.

  5. So that holy god, manifested before me, recited the sutra beginning 'the traditional doctrine of letters.

  6. Then she fixed her eye on the second Pasupata ascetic, and in the same way recited the horn-producing charm and danced.

  7. I consented, and immediately Sukhasaya fastened a thread on my neck and recited the spell, and made me a young monkey.

  8. And when I read it, I knew for certain how she felt towards you, and I came here to inform you and recited the stanza in your presence, and here is the garment on which she wrote the stanza.

  9. When the parrot had recited this sloka, it began to reflect, and said again, "What do you wish to know?

  10. Having said so much, Manoharika recited the two verses which Padmavati had put into her mouth.

  11. Always perfect in her lessons, she was so modest that she recited in a noticeable tremor, and had to be told frequently to raise her voice.

  12. On the day of the Washington celebration I recited a poem that I had composed in my enthusiasm.

  13. When our evident signs are recited unto them, they who hope not to meet us at the resurrection, say, Bring a different Koran from this; or make some change therein.

  14. Yet it was strange to hear anything like the words which I (then in an agony of pain with spasms in my stomach) dictated to William Laidlaw at Abbotsford, now recited in a foreign tongue, and for the amusement of a strange people.

  15. He himself recited the same passage in French, and politely pointed out the parts in which he thought that I had improved on the original.

  16. I then recited the finest passage of his 'Zenobie et Rhadamiste', which I had translated into blank verse.

  17. I spoke to him of his tutor Gravina, and as we were on that subject he recited to me five or six stanzas which he had written on his death, and which had not been printed.

  18. They were almost always recited by favourite actresses; and nothing charmed the depraved audience so much as to hear lines grossly indecent repeated by a beautiful girl, who was supposed to have not yet lost her innocence [174].

  19. But in general the doxology was sung at the close of public worship; and the Apostles' Creed was recited when baptism was administered.

  20. He came forth calm and undismayed; holding a crucifix in his hand, he recited in a loud, clear voice a solemn prayer in verse, which he had composed amidst the horrors of the Chapel.

  21. Augusta Livia hearing a few tragical verses recited out of Virgil, Tu Marcellus eris, &c.

  22. Though the action which I have recited is in itself full of guilt and horror, it proceeded from a temper of mind which might have produced very noble fruits, had it been formed and guided by a suitable education.

  23. Our class meets bi-monthly; the lesson assigned at a previous meeting is recited topically and catechetically, under the direction of an instructor selected from the class at a previous meeting.

  24. Cardinal De Angelis, the chief one, took his seat for the first time, and recited the usual opening prayer.

  25. It was recited at a Bohemian gathering of which I made one in a Fleet Street tavern, the reciter being a huge Scottish painter with a Falstaffian head.

  26. He read and wrote and recited all day, so that it became generally understood that he was to be a poet; and as nothing is so absurd to the eyes of healthy normal boys as a poet, he was the victim of not a little ridicule.

  27. He having silently perused it, exalted his voice to the highest pitch, and said, that it was informal, and improper to be recited in so great an assembly, especially of dignified and religious persons.

  28. To this Charles, in the empire, succeeded Arnulph; a king of the imperial line, tutor of that young Louis of whom the vision above recited speaks.

  29. He recited to her poems, ancient and modern, and scenes from Schiller's dramatic works.

  30. Kainz recited to him in the beautiful moonlight nights, and from the banks of the lake of Lucerne he heard the joyous Swiss peasant songs.

  31. His legate recited all he had been able to learn of the new king they were now expecting in Judea.

  32. The Shoemakers' composition of 1387 recited a charter of Edward III.

  33. This statute recited that there had been time out of mind a Gild of the art and mystery of Drapers legally incorporated in Shrewsbury, which had usually set on work above six hundred persons of the art or science of Shearmen or Frizers.

  34. Hilaire in great form recited his own poetry with great enthusiasm the whole evening .

  35. I recited an Ode which I had written for the occasion and Lucian recited one of Bentley's poems that came out in an Oxford magazine.

  36. These "Ballades Urbane" were a feature in the New Witness--but many of those the three friends composed were strictly not for publication but recited to friends behind closed doors.

  37. I remember how George Wyndham laughed as he recited to us the paragraph where this idea reached its climax.

  38. It is no doubt a somewhat late form of Brahmanic cosmogony which is recited in this introduction.

  39. I had not meant to send you the stanzas recited by the little Love, but I do so; your Lordship will do with them what you like.

  40. Most of these he knew intimately, and recited entire passages without reference to the book.

  41. We sang a whole hour, as some visitors come into the school, and then recited our lessons as usual.

  42. Then we practised our prettiest songs from the School-Singer, and recited our different pieces of poetry, and besides all that we reviewed a good many lessons.

  43. You are letter perfect, I say, in the part of Célimène, you have recited it so many times with me.

  44. Composed of three recited versions obtained in the west of Scotland.

  45. Finlay himself "restored" the name of Balwearie from a recited copy "in preference to that of Sr.

  46. Recited by Ellen Healy, as sung by a woman living near Killarney.

  47. Q Finlay's Scottish Ballads, I, xiv, from a recited copy.

  48. Recited as here written, but it was not thought to be right.

  49. Newell, as recited by an Irish maid-servant in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

  50. He who recited the first time hath recited a second time and I heard him hard by.

  51. When he had made an end of his prayer he recited aloud the verse, O true believers, save your souls and those of your families from the fire whose fuel is men and stones.

  52. Footnote 23: Prayers over the dead are not universal in Al-Islam; but when they are recited they lack the "sijdah" or prostration.

  53. But the Eunuch said, "I will not leave thee till thou show me who it was that recited the verses, for I dread returning to my lady without him.

  54. They brought one and she took it and recited over it and muttered spells, and sat for an hour speaking in speech no one understood or knew aught thereof.

  55. So they buried the body and sat down while the readers read out and recited the Koran over the grave; and Ghanim sat with them, being overcome with bashfulness and saying to himself "I cannot well go away till they do.

  56. Quoth she, "Arise and bring me him who recited verses but now.

  57. Then the effeminated one cried at him, saying, "Who was it recited the verses?

  58. In this form it is supposed they were sung or recited at the feasts of princes and knights in their baronial halls.

  59. This is answered by the statement that there was a professional body of men, called Rhapsodists, who recited the poems of others, and whose business it was to commit to memory and rehearse for pay the national and patriotic legends.

  60. On one occasion, when residing at the court of Scopas, king of Thessaly, the prince desired him to prepare a poem in celebration of his exploits, to be recited at a banquet.


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