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Recount

verb

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

Count again.

noun

An additional (usually a second) count; especially of the votes in a close election.

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"Recount" Quotes from Famous Books

... to live these nine years with such a sin on his conscience. But he was still far from such an acknowledgment, and his only fear was that everything might now be found out, and that she or her advocate might recount it all and put him to ...

— Resurrection • Count Leo Tolstoy

... I shall have to leave him for a while (but after a while in another book that shall follow this, I shall return to him to tell you a great many things concerning other adventures of his), for meantime it is necessary that I should recount the history of another knight, who was held by many to be nearly as excellent a knight ...

— The Story of the Champions of the Round Table • Howard Pyle

... at his task, his thoughts were running on the Pantomime. He had meant, last night, to recount all its wonders and the wonders of Plymouth; but somehow the words had not come. After displaying his presents he could find no more to say: and feeling his father's hand laid on his shoulder, had burst into tears and hidden his face in his mother's lap. He wanted to console ...

— The Ship of Stars • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... with just indignation, he threw off the mask of concealment, which he said he was tired of wearing, and became the same bold, defiant, reckless boy that he always was; while I continued to be the same weak, foolish, fond parent. I cannot recount the tortures inflicted upon me by my son since that fatal discovery. He has not only abandoned all his law studies (having been expelled from the office of Mulroy, Biggup & Lartimore for grossly insulting a young female ...

— Round the Block • John Bell Bouton

... Abe could bring himself to recount to Morris the full details of Sidney Koblin's regeneration, but Morris had learned the facts long before there appeared in the advertising section of the Clothing and Haberdashery ...

— Abe and Mawruss - Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter • Montague Glass

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