recite

• The selection I intended to recite was a poem entitled ``No Sects in Heaven,'' but when I faced my au- dience I was so appalled by its size and by the sud- den realization of my own temerity that I fainted during the delivery of the first verse. —  The Story of a Pioneer
• I was always made to recite, my compositions were passed around, and often I was called up on the platform —oh, climax of exaltation! —  The Promised Land
• The class amongst us who devote themselves to sober literary pursuits is necessarily very small; but that of the happy youths, who dream the gods have made them poetical, has many members, who “rave, recite, and madden round the ship,” to their own (exclusive) satisfaction. —  The Lieutenant and Commander
• I thought she was so brilliant that I never re-watched any of her films because I didn't want to be tempted to copy her and recite, as my friends would, the lines from her films. —  NewNowNext
• Incidentally, the time delay that I recite is almost right on what was estimated to exist by at least one astronomer that considered time factors. —  American Chronicle

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