We have now letters which passed between Mary and Shelley at this time; also Mary's diary, which recounts many of their misadventures.
On meeting Frankenstein he recounts the most pathetic story of his falling away from sympathy with humanity: how, after saving the life of a girl from drowning, he is shot by a young man who rushes up and rescues her from him.
Mrs. Shelley, in her Notes to Poems in 1821, recounts how Shelley was nearly drowned, by a flat boat which he had recently acquired being overturned in the canal near Pisa, when returning from Leghorn.
Not content with this general verdict, however, he recountsthe details of his experiment, that he may deter us from repeating it.
It is out of any personal conceit, therefore, nor any pride of learning, nor even that he may grant himself the relief of lifting his mask from his face for a moment, that he recounts his titles to their regard.
The general interrogates him, and the Arab recounts his adventures.
La Grande Kabylie recounts the personal experiences of the author in that yet unconquered country of the Arabs, whither he went with Marshal Bugeaud in his last expedition.
Medina, continuing his history, recounts the choice of Lorenzo de León as provincial of the Augustinian order, and his subsequent deposition; but this is stated in brief and cautious terms.
Recounts a Tradition of the Traveller's Return to Venice.
Huot, a missionary in the Yun-nan province, recounts a case of cannibalism which he witnessed.
Sidenote: Recounts a tradition of the travellers' return to Venice.
Herodotus recounts in detail a legend which became attached to this prince.
He describes in his History the inundations of the Nile, the manners, costume, and religion of the people; he recounts events of their history and tales which his guides had told him.
It recounts a ceremony which many will consider ludicrous, and yet others sacrilegious.
Dumas recounts the incident thus: "'And the cards I ordered to be engraved as soon as you knew the number of the house?
In addition, there is the profound satisfaction of knowing that the rollicking and gallant swashbuckler has come down to us from the pages of real life, as Dumas himself recounts in the preface to the Colman Levy edition of the book.
Does the narrator speak from the standpoint of one who somehow or other knows all that the characters do and think and feel, or of one who recounts merely his own feelings and what he sees and hears?
Does the narrator speak from the standpoint of one who somehow or other knows all that the characters do and think and feel, or of one who recounts merely what he himself feels and sees and hears?
The long letter, in which he recounts the capture and execution of the murderers, is before me.
This silence is the more significant, as it is this very niece who had possession of the papers in which La Salle recounts the journeys of which the issues are in question.
He presently set out on a roving mission through Holland; and he recounts various mishaps which befell him, "in consequence of my zeal in laboring for the saving of souls.
This series of six volumes recountsthe adventures of two brothers, Tom and Jack Somers, one in the army, the other in the navy, in the great Civil War.
In this story the author recounts the hardships of a young lad in his first endeavor to start out for himself.
Ausonius recounts of Caligula he so lost patience that he forcibly entered the priest M.
Sir Francis recounts one typical incident: Frederick, then in the sixth form, had returned to school four days late after the Long Vacation.
He recounts the scenes and circumstances of their forty eventful years of desert life, in a style eminently calculated to touch the deepest moral springs of the heart.
In the account of Hezekiah he mentions that the king depended on Isaiah the prophet, by whom he inquired and knew of all future events,[3] and he recounts also the miracle of putting back the sun-dial.
Josephus adds another chapter to detail the horrors of the famine, in which herecounts the story of the mother eating her child, which occurs also in the Midrash.
Our knowledge of his personal history begins with what he himself recounts in the Anabasis.
Side-note: Euthyphron recounts that he is prosecuting an indictment for murder against his own father--Displeasure of his friends at the proceeding.
It first recounts the thorough clearance of idolatrous emblems and images which Asa made.
The text then recounts the various parts and shrines of the temple, and it describes their splendours in similes drawn from the heavens and the earth and the abyss, or deep, beneath the earth.
The thanksgiving, as in these words, lingers over and recounts our blessings, as a rich man counts his treasures, or a lover dwells on his joys.
The series recounts various forms of evil love, and is so arranged as that it starts with the coarse, gross act, and goes on to more subtle and inward forms.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "recounts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
