O Saunaka, this best of narrations called Bharata which has begun to be repeated at thy sacrifice, was formerly repeated at the sacrifice of Janamejaya by an intelligent disciple of Vyasa.
He that giveth a hundred kine with horns mounted with gold to a Brahmana well-posted up in the Vedas and all branches of learning, and he that daily listeneth to the sacred narrations of the Bharata, acquireth equal merit.
Be your narrations lively, short, and smart; In your descriptions show your noblest art: There 'tis your poetry may be employed.
The inventors of these tales would of course generally choose such subjects, and their narrations would generally consist therefore rather of embellishments of actual transactions, than of inventions wholly original.
More difficult to explain is the laughter excited by scenes or narrations which we call ludicrous, funny, grotesque, comic; and still more so the derisive and contemptuous laugh.
He was greatly excited by the narrations themselves, and pleased with the flowing smoothness of the verse in which the tales were told.
But by his unwearied narrations he impressed his image in gigantic features on our plastic continent.
It is objected by Readers of History, That the Battels in those Narrations are scarce ever to be understood.
There is a certain irregular Way in their Narrations or Discourse, which has something more warm and pleasing than we meet with among Men who are used to adjust and methodize their Thoughts.
It is a wonderful thing that so many, and they not reckoned absurd, shall entertain those with whom they converse by giving them the History of their Pains and Aches; and imagine such Narrations their Quota of the Conversation.
It is to me an insupportable Affliction, to be tormented with the Narrationsof a Set of People, who are warm in their Expressions of the quick Relish of that Pleasure which their Dogs and Horses have a more delicate Taste of.
This light, religion affords us on all questions, fixing by its dogmas the cardinal points of all true philosophy, and offering us in its narrations the only thread that can guide us through the labyrinth of the first ages.
None of these narrations mention the serpent, yet it always figures in representations of the apparition, and certainly in conformity with Sister Catherine's earliest revelations of the vision.
These three narrations accord perfectly in the main, yet differ sufficiently in detail to prove that one was not copied from the other.
His narrations and their whole contexture appear in fact to have originated in a disorder of his sensitive faculty, and suggest no reason for suspecting that the speculative delusions of a depraved intellect have moved him to invent them.
The third or ordinary kind of visions is that which he has daily when wide awake; and from this class his narrations are chiefly taken.
Duponceau, and some others, had held him up to the public, through the journals, as an impostor, and his narrations as fabulous.
Both narrations have equally a traditional character, and were doubtless of Macedonian origin, only that the latter appears to have been combined with an Argive legend of a brother of the powerful Phido having gone to the north.
Hitherto we have merely collected the fabulous narrations of the ancients, and attempted to show their connexion; we shall next speak of the ceremonies which attended the worship of this goddess or goddesses.
This seems to have been too much the case with the unhappy person of whom the thread of these narrationsrequires that I should speak, viz.
Some of these narrations are inconsistent and contradictory.
That in the greater portion of his narrations he attached himself to the agreeable, oftener than to the just.
The different policemen gave their narrations of the state of things--the open window, the position of the boat, &c.
These narrations are constructed with the express purpose of vividly setting forth the personal valour of Duncan's generals, "Macbeth and Banquo.
This scene is almost exclusively occupied with the narrations of the "bleeding Soldier," and of Rosse.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "narrations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
