Reciting Sentence Examples

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  • It's not like we will be reciting anything.

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  • What was that saying you were always reciting to me?

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  • Several court cases have called into question the legality of reciting prayers in public school, and the Supreme Court has ruled on this issue several times.

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  • The Prince and his family are reciting the rosary before dinner.

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  • In cases where the patron is himself a clerk in orders, and wishes to be admitted to the benefice, he must proceed by way of petition instead of by deed of presentation, reciting that the benefice is in his own patronage, and petitioning the bishop to examine him and admit him.

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  • It is still used in the service of the synagogue, and the Mahommedans not only add it after reciting the first Sura of the Koran, but also when writing letters, &c., and repeat it three times, of ten with the word Qimtir, as a kind of talisman.

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  • Although at one period he certainly shrank from reciting the Athanasian Creed in church, he was towards the close of his life found ready to join an association for the defence of this formulary.

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  • The latter maintain themselves by private teaching and by copying manuscripts, and the former in the same manner, or by reciting the Koran.

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  • Accordingly, Palestrina and his great contemporaries and predecessors treated the Gloria and Credo in a style midway in polyphonic organization and rhythmic breadth between that of the elaborate motet (adopted in the Sanctus) and the homophonic reciting style of the Litany.

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  • When the tablets containing the vows to be offered for the welfare of the state during the next lustrum were handed to him, he left the duty of reciting them to Tiberius, saying that he would not take vows which he was never destined to perform.

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  • The Little Iliad and the Phocais, according to the Herodotean life, were composed by Homer when he lived at Phocaea with a certain Thestorides, who carried them off to Chios and there gained fame by reciting them as his own.

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  • It is not certain indeed that the practice of reciting a long poem by the agency of several competitors was ancient, or that it prevailed elsewhere than at Athens; but as rhapsodists were numerous, and popular favour throughout Greece became more and more confined to one or two great works, it must have become almost a necessity.

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  • Again, the Platonic dialogue Hip parchus (which though not genuine is probably earlier than the Alexandrian times) asserts that Hipparchus, son of Peisistratus, first brought the poems to Athens, and obliged the rhapsodists at the Panathenaea to follow the order of the text, " as they still do," instead of reciting portions chosen at will.

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  • Encouraged by their success, he devoted himself diligently to this kind of composition, but refrained for a long time from either publicly reciting or publishing his verses.

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  • Cromwell's charter of 1655, though reciting that "time out of mind" Swansea had been "a town corporate," incorporated it anew, and changed the title of portreeve into mayor, in whom, with twelve aldermen and twelve capital burgesses, it vested the government of the twn.

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  • Writing and reciting poetry are universal, and fill as important a place in social life as instrumental music. In Colombia, as elsewhere, much attention has been given to belles-lettres among the whites of Spanish descent, but as yet the republic has practically nothing of a permanent character to show for it.

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  • The Muezzin, who is a paid servant of the mosque, must stand with his face towards Mecca and with the points of his forefingers in his ears while reciting Azan.

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  • In the afternoon the essential ceremony begins; it consists simply in "standing" on Arafa shouting "Labbeyka" and reciting prayers and texts till sunset.

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  • In 1850 he first travelled through Sweden, singing and reciting in public, and his tour was a long popular triumph.

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  • This completed, twelve chieftains rode around the barrow, reciting an elegy and speaking of their heroic king.

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  • My aim in reciting this litany -- which could be extended indefinitely -- is not to tell you what choices you should make.

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  • Sometimes, as a self-imposed penance, he would stand up to his neck in a lake of cold water, reciting Scripture.

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  • Some work well like Nicole reciting scripture but some are a little pointless and would be been better left off.

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  • In solitary confinement for nine years, he practiced Buddhism primarily by practicing sati (mindfulness) and reciting sutras in Pali.

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  • The uppermost stage was reserved for the deacon who sang the gospel (facing the congregation); for promulgating episcopal edicts; reciting the names inscribed on the diptychs (see Diptych); announcing fasts, vigils and feasts; reading ecclesiastical letters or acts of the martyrs celebrated on that day; announcing new miracles for popular edification, professions by new converts or recantations by heretics; and (for priests and deacons) preaching sermons, - bishops as a general rule preaching from their own throne.

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  • From about the 4th century certain psalms began to be grouped together, a process that was furthered by the monastic practice of daily reciting the 150 psalms. This took so much time that the monks began to spread it over a week, dividing each day into hours, and allotting to each hour its portion of the Psalter.

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  • He began quietly reciting verses in Arabic, pausing occasionally to spit lightly on the boy 's head.

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  • What is the use of merely reciting the written parts for the drum?

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  • He used it first to cure himself of a habit of throwing his head back when reciting in public.

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  • Children at Leapfrog Day Nurseries will be learning and reciting rhymes, stories and songs, while raising vital funds for I CAN.

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  • Alternatives to a prayer might include reciting a song or inspirational saying or reading a page of a book that is nonreligious.

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  • At a graduation party, parents sometimes give a speech, reciting a quote instead of a speech, or in addition to one, is a good way to make the speech easier to present.

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  • If you've found or put together the words that exquisitely summarize your union, you will want your guests to have a clear understanding of what you or a friend of yours is reading or reciting on stage.

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  • But the game is fun and you'll find yourself reciting the words in no time.

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  • Watching over the dead body is called shemira, and reciting psalms helps pass the time for the watchers.

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  • After reciting the half that his love had written, the emperor was amazed and quickly bestowed the honor of being one of his ministers to the young man.

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  • The youth returned to his lover and was able to complete her couplet by reciting the other half given to him by the emperor.

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  • Jumping rope while reciting multiplication facts helps your child to remember them as well as get some good exercise.

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  • Have your child read along with you and before you know it, he'll be reciting "am", "ham" and "Sam."

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  • The more you can get your child to sing the song, the better he or she will get at reciting the alphabet.

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  • Reciting a script - If every evening is "How was your day, honey?"

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  • If reciting poetry is part of the proposal plan, pick a poem that is easier to remember.

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  • If you'll be reciting the piece, be sure to memorize it beforehand.

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  • Alas, the days of standing on a city street corner and reciting poetry for cash donations are long past, at least in the United States.

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  • Kids who feel more comfortable and familiar with the speech's language will likely have an easier time remembering and reciting it.

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  • Presenting the letters of the alphabet in a game encourages a kid to spend a longer period of time analyzing each letter and figuring out how they sound and fit together into words than simply reciting or writing out the alphabet.

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  • The signboard of a wayside inn near Goring Heath in Oxfordshire long bore a portrait of the king with couplets reciting how his majesty "drank from the bowl, and bowl'd for what he drank."

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  • Day and night, long processions of all classes and ages, headed by priests carrying crosses and banners, perambulated the streets in double file, reciting prayers and drawing the blood from their bodies with leathern thongs.

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  • The percentage of educated men who have written little volumes of lyrics is surprisingly large, and this may be accounted for by the old Portuguese custom of reciting poetry with musical accompaniment.

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  • The best-known accounts of Cirey life, those of Madame de Grafigny, date from the winter of 1738-39; they are somewhat spiteful but very amusing, depicting the frequent quarrels between Madame du Chatelet and Voltaire, his intense suffering under criticism, his constant dread of the surreptitious publication of the Pucelle (which nevertheless he could not keep his hands from writing or his tongue from reciting to his visitors), and so forth.

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  • Such violations of holy things as making mock of the Scriptures, or even reciting them as one would ordinary literature, was sacrilege in the eyes of the rabbi.

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  • In his fight with poverty he was put to strange shifts, becoming cellarman at a tavern and clerk to a lawyer, reciting and singing at a small theatre, and compiling a collection of common songs.

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  • One special class called kher heb were charged with reciting the divine formulae, which were popularly held to possess magical virtue.

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  • The question of missions is reserved, and the relaxations granted to the Society in such matters as fasting, reciting the hours and reading heretical books, are withdrawn; while the breve ends with clauses carefully drawn to bar any legal exceptions that might be taken against its full validity and obligation.

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  • After various parliamentary reports and some legislation by way of extension, an important act was passed in 1839 reciting that the system of police established had been found very inefficient and might be yet further improved (Metropolitan Police Act 1839).

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  • The epic reciting his wonderful deed in despatching the monster Tiamat and in establishing law and Order in the world in the place of chaos was recited in his temple at Babylon known as E-Saggila, "the lofty house," and there are some reasons for believing that the recital was accompanied by a dramatical representation of the epic.

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  • It was here that the parliament met which on the 6th of April 1320 addressed to the pope the notable letter, asserting the independence of their country and reciting in eloquent terms the services which their "lord and sovereign" Robert Bruce had rendered to Scotland.

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  • The decision leaves untouched the practice in which millions of schoolchildren around the country begin the day by reciting the pledge.

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  • They don't earn millions of dollars per film reciting poetry.

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  • The Mishnah attributes to Ezra a decree that each male should immerse himself before reciting the morning prayer or studying.

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