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Narrate

verb

(past & past part. narrated; pres. part. narrating)

Provide commentary for a film, for example.

Narrate or give a detailed account of. Synonyms: recite, recount, tell. "The father told a story to his child"

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"Narrate" Quotes from Famous Books

... "To narrate the career of Daniel Defoe is to tell a tale of wonder and daring, of high endeavour and marvellous success. To dwell upon it is to take courage and to praise God for the splendid possibilities of life.... Defoe is always the hero; his ...

— Adventures in Criticism • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... he differed so essentially from the divine poet, he understood the greatness of Shelley at a glance, and preserved for us a record of his friend's early days, which is incomparable for the vividness of its portraiture. The pages which narrate Shelley's course of life at Oxford have all the charm of a romance. No novel indeed is half so delightful as that picture, at once affectionate and satirical, tender and humorous, extravagant and delicately shaded, of the student life enjoyed together for a few short months by the inseparable ...

— Percy Bysshe Shelley • John Addington Symonds

... explained by two suppositions; either they are copies from a common original, or they present the facts they narrate in general formulae which had been widely adopted by the priests for committing to memory their ancient history. The differences which we find in them preclude the former hypothesis except as it may apply to the ...

— The Maya Chronicles - Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 • Various

... silent as to distinguished persons except as persecutors, or as great contemporaries. We read of the calamities of the Jews, of Herod Agrippa, of Philo, of Nero's persecution, of the emperors, but not of Christians. Eusebius does not narrate a single interesting or important fact which took place in the first century through the agency of a great man. We know scarcely more than what is contained in the New Testament. We read that Clement was bishop of Rome, ...

— The Old Roman World • John Lord

... the conversation he was frequently afraid. Nevertheless his attitude was by no means a fearful attitude; on the contrary it was very confident. He would grasp the edge of the table with his hands, and narrate at length, smiling amiably, and looking from side to side regularly like a public speaker. He narrated in detail the difficulties which he had in obtaining the right sort of cutlets rightly cooked at his club, and added: "But of course there's ...

— The Roll-Call • Arnold Bennett

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