Share again, as a story

Usage examples of retell.

The story of King Sonom, also retold by Quincy, comes from an extraordinary contemporary document, a 1775 letter by a French missionary in China named Joseph Amiot, which Savina reproduces in full.

Stencil retold it, the yarn had undergone considerable change: had become, as Eigenvalue put it, Stencilized.

All those things were known in Venice, and were repeated and retold, in hushed voices of horror, and some of those things were even true.

As the rest of the family awoke and joined the klatsch, one by one, he retold the story, using the same words, the weight of which seemed to double with each admission.

Sha could tell from the way Flanagan was talking that Lala had been forced to retell her own history more than once.

The merchant Princes of Tol Honeth started by instigating a nationwide rumor campaign about the Marag practice of ritual cannibalism, and the stories grew wilder and wilder with each retelling.

Encouraged to tell and retell his story, with no guidance or restraint from adults, he embellished his account from a man with yellow teeth to scenes of orgies in the woods, and finally to lurid visions of buckets of blood.

Raoul de Beauvais, Chrestien de Troyes, Rusticien de Pise, Luces de Cast, Robert and Helie de Borron, and Gottfried von Strassburg, and that in our day it has been retold by Matthew Arnold and Swinburne, and made the subject of an opera by Wagner.

Andrew Lanning was told and retold, that he had lain in perfect security within a six-hour ride from Tomo, while Hal Dozier himself combed the mountains and hundreds more were out hunting fame and fortune.

Everyone else seemed to find their way to the Mammoth Hearth, anticipating the story of an exciting and unusual adventure, which could be told and retold.

The genial omissions and the invented details with which our textbooks retell the Pilgrim archetype are close cousins of the overt censorship practiced by the Massachusetts Department of Commerce in denying Frank James the right to speak.

Greenberg, and John Heifers, an anthology of fairy-tales retold as science fiction, has some clever stuff in it.

After the breaking of the middle piece of matzah came the maggid, the retelling of the story of Moses and the Passover, and then the ma-nishtanah, or four questions.

CHRONICLE of the Land of Prydain is not a retelling or retranslation of Welsh mythology.

Land of Prydain is not a retelling or retranslation of Welsh mythology.