If it were the latter, it would recount the superb commercial position of the city, each of the bulwarks of its financial fortresses.
They do, to be sure, recount many of the incidents and circumstances attendant upon the writing and publication of many of his works, and because of this they immediately become the best of all sources of supply.
In point of time his romances go back to the days of the house of Valois and the Anglo-French wars (1328), and to recount their contents is to abstract many splendid chapters from out the pages of French history.
Lord Lyndhurst used for years to recount the small outcomings of legislative achievement; and yet those were the days of the first Whig Governments, who had more to do in legislation, and did more, than any Government.
The newspapers describe daily and incessantly a certain conspicuous existence; they comment on its characters, recount its details, investigate its motives, anticipate its course.
Words cannot recount the endless joy and wonder which this miniature mountain-top held for us.
With which observation he proceeded to recount to me his own adventurous wanderings on foot and horseback.
Some day, if occasion permit, I will recount to you the full story of Mary Antony's strategy.
Permit me, Reverend Father, to recount to you the happenings of the last twenty hours.
Verses 15-28 recount the separation of the Hebrews into two distinct kingdoms; Israel, the corrupt ten tribes; and Judah, the less corrupt two tribes.
But I cannot stay to recount half the wonderful Adventures of Mr. Selkirk.
The conversions which took place in the country were not few, and some were cases of heads of families; but I have already gone to great length, and I will here recount one only, the beginning and end of which I saw to be good.
All which particulars I set down as himself did recount them unto me.
She then made me recount my history; it was not long, and I did it faithfully: suppressing only some trifling circumstances, but on the whole neither sparing nor excusing myself.
It would carry us too far, to recount all the quadraturists sprung from these schools; nor would all, perhaps, deserve commemoration.
Of the other brother it is not equally easy to recount all that he painted in private houses, and in the before-mentioned churches, and at S.
I have lately made some sacrifices, for which, were I vivâ voce with you to paint the situation and recount the circumstances, you should applaud me.
To you, Madam, I need notrecount the fairy pleasures the muse bestows to counterbalance this catalogue of evils.
It were endless to recount all the artifices, extortions, and frauds which were practised on the commodore and his people, by this interested race.
I have not great miracles to recount to-day, but the facts I give are certainly very striking traits of protection.
I am a young villager living amidst my family; I do not announce miracles to you, but merely recount facts just as I have seen or heard them.
Clergymen have come to learn the particulars of this event, and I let the miraculously cured herself recount the wonders of the Lord.
When the Onondaga has finished speaking, the Mohawk chiefsrecount in turn the leading superstitions and fables of the nation; they are well known already to most of the people, who only half listen to what is being said.
The old gentleman was proceeding to recount some other exploits of his youth, when he was seized with such a violent fit of creaking that he was unable to proceed.
I shall, therefore, recount a little affair I had with one of these gentry; as it is indeed quite necessary I should, if I am to give any true idea of "the good old times.
In the hot days of summer, when his blood, I suppose, got a little warm, he would sometimes become talkative, and recount the exploits of his youth.
They both flee to a lonely ruin where they recount to each other the stories of their sufferings.
There he meets Laon and Cythna who recountthe sufferings which made them worthy of this heavenly place.
But it is tedious torecount one by one the cunning and valour of each man of them.
I will not stop to recount all the arguments I employed to enforce my opinions, nor how learnedly I discussed every question of European politics.
It would but grieve you to recountits early history, since it was taken in a day fatal to your country.
But go thou and pursue him to wheresoever, having met with him, thou mayest recount this news.
I must recount what you have been, which I find you do not remember.
I must Once in a month recountwhat thou hast been, Which thou forgett'st.
It would be tedious torecount to you the Life of an unfortunate Shoeing-Horn, or I might entertain you with a very long and melancholy Relation of my Sufferings.
It would take a long time to recount to what futilities Paul practised his tyranny.
Otherwise he was quick and clever, his conversation was enlivened with a thousand anecdotes which he could recount to perfection, and I always knew him as the best and most obliging of men.
