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"Retell" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... come those which are derived from the earlier French epics and in which love, if it appears at all, is subordinated to the military exploits of Charlemagne and his twelve peers in their wars against the Saracens. Second are the romances which, battered salvage from a greater past, retell in strangely altered romantic fashion the great stories of classical antiquity, mainly the achievements of Alexander the Great and the tragic fortunes of Troy. Third come the Arthurian romances, and fourth those scattering miscellaneous ones which do not belong to the other classes, dealing, ...
— A History of English Literature • Robert Huntington Fletcher
... "The Frost King," she produced a piece of composition which is much more remarkable and in itself more entertaining at some points than the corresponding part of her story in this book. When she came to retell the story in a fuller form, the echo was still in her mind of the phrases she had written nine years before. Yet she had not seen her sketch in the Youth's Companion since she wrote it, except two passages which Miss Sullivan read to her to remind her of things she should say in this ...
— Story of My Life • Helen Keller |
Words linked to "Retell" : quote, fictionalise, interpret, cite, dwell, resume, summarize, ditto, paraphrase, render, recite, harp, reword, summarise, repeat, ingeminate, rephrase, re-create, fictionalize, translate, sum up, restate, perseverate, reiterate, iterate |
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