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Definition of Retells
1. retell [v] - See also: retell
Lexicographical Neighbors of Retells
Literary usage of Retells
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"... upon the doors of their prisons, and lock the same ilk night, least the retells
pyke or break up the locks." Act Sedt. lUh Feb. 1671. 2. ..."
2. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"had defeated the retells in Hungary, being about 500, and most of them killed.
That the king of Prussia has signified to the Sweeds, that if they attack ..."
3. Growing Readers: Units of Study in the Primary Classroom by Kathy Collins (2004)
"When a child retells and gets stuck, we teach him to check the book to help him
... •JJ One partner retells, then both partners read together to confirm. ..."
4. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"of the retells mentioned in the ... knowe in armes amongst the retells ID June 1679;
... in armes with the retells in ..."
5. New Voices: An Introduction to Contemporary Poetry by Marguerite Ogden Bigelow Wilkinson (1922)
"With a very feminine gentleness of thought and emotion Lizette Woodworth Reese
has written a poem about the baby Jesus, in which she retells the legend, ..."
6. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"... retells ought to l>e proceeded against and ... that the saids retells and
traitors ought tu ..."
7. Balancing Reading & Language Learning: A Resource for Teaching English by Mary Cappellini (2005)
"... predictions Predicts and retells stories Begins to understand cause and effect,
and main idea, in simple stories Relates stories to own experiences; ..."
8. Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy: Based on the Doctrine of Evolution, with by John Fiske, Josiah Royce (1916)
"Fiske now, in his " Destiny of Man," retells the story of evolution very briefly,
in the popular and untechnical fashion which he could so wonderfully ..."
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