When, during his discourses, he recounts his experiences as a young aspirant, he regularly uses the phrase " When I was an unenlightened bodhisatta ..." The term therefore connotes a being who is " bound for enlightenment ", in other words, a person whose aim is to become fully enlightened.

Hotel archivist Susan Scott recounts an anecdote that, when he was being taken out of the building on a stretcher shortly before his death in 2002, he raised his hand and told the diners " it was the food.

In a death which resembles that attributed to Isaiah in Lives of the Prophets, Muslim exegesis recounts that Isaiah was martyred by Israelites by being sawed in half.

The song recounts lead singer and guitarist Gaz Coombes's experience of being arrested by the police for possession of cannabis.

Why We're in Vietnam describes a reunion of two veterans, one being John Sullivan, at the funeral of a third and recounts an incident that almost escalated into a My Lai Massacre involving a former student and player in the Hearts game in Hearts In Atlantis, Ronnie Malenfant.

Similarly, when the Bible recounts that King David purchased a threshing floor owned by Araunah the Jebusite, tradition locates it as being on this mount.

Anecdotal evidence suggest that racism was a key factor — in his book on the history of Australian radio, author and broadcaster Wayne Mac recounts that when a local Melbourne DJ of the 1960s played the new Ike and Tina Turner single " River Deep Mountain High " it was immediately pulled from the playlist by the station's program manager for being " too noisy and too black ".

In Greek mythology, Isocrates, in his witty declamation Busiris recounts " the false tale of Heracles and Busiris " ( 11. 30 – 11. 40 ), which was a comic subject represented almost entirely in the repertory of early 5th century BC Athenian vase-painters: the theme has a narrow narrative range, according to Niall Livingstone: Heracles being led to sacrifice ; his escape ; the killing of Busiris ; the rout of his entourage.

Lawson also recounts a story by a resident of Richmond in 1861 who describes Morphy as then being " an officer on Beauregard ’ s staff.

* Were the recounts, as they were being conducted, constitutional?

It recounts how after the flood mankind was having difficulty growing food for itself, being dependent solely on rainwater ; it further relates that techniques of irrigation and cultivation of barley were then imparted by the gods.

His first major work as Simon Hawke was the Timewars series, which recounts the adventures of an organization tasked with protecting history from being changed by time travellers.

In the text, Thurston recounts his discovery of notes left behind by his granduncle, George Gammell Angell, a prominent Professor of Semitic languages at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, who died suddenly in " the winter of 1926 – 27 " after being " jostled by a nautical-looking negro ".

Also, ballots in six counties were discovered after the initial count and included in the recounts, the most being from King County.

According to this view, the story of Jacob's visit to Laban to obtain a wife began as a metaphor for the second migration, with Jacob's new family, possessions, and livestock, obtained from Laban, being representations of the new wave of migrants ; it is notable that, according to textual scholars, in the Jahwist version of the story it is only the Joseph tribes that are among these migrants, since it only recounts Jacob as having met Rachel, and the matriarchs of the other Israelite tribes-Leah, Bilhah, and Zilpah-do not appear.

He recounts a conversation with a 96 year old lady who had lived in the area all her life and remembered being chased away from " Cheshums Mill " as a child.

Instead, he recounts a story of human brutality, being adrift on a lifeboat with his mother, a sailor with a broken leg, and the ship's cook, who killed the sailor and Pi's mother and cut them up to use as bait and food.

" A letter written in 1799 by Goethe recounts: "... when it was time for dessert, the prince's entire livery ... carried a generous-size torte with colorful flaming candles-amounting to some fifty candles-that began to melt and threatened to burn down, instead of there being enough room for candles indicating upcoming years, as is the case with children's festivities of this kind ..." As the excerpt indicates, the tradition at the time was to place candles for each year of the individual's life with some added candles ' indicating upcoming years '.

On being signed: " Ross showed up at a practice ," Beck recounts.

Dr. Librero recounts that colleagues in agricultural communications in Los Baños agreed with Dr. Quebral, but colleagues from the field of mass communication in the University of the Philippines Diliman, and more so from other countries notably in North America, did not agree completely, although years later they ultimately accepted development communication, even if in the beginning they also focused on the concept of it being agricultural.

Local folklore first recorded in 1946 recounts the story that it is impossible for any human being to successfully count the number of stones at Coldrum.

The demon Enepsigos recounts to King Solomon at one point during the temple's construction that he can take three different physical forms, one of which being the Greek god Kronos.

The word Agonistes (), found as an epithet following a person's name, means “ the struggler ” or “ the combatant .” It is most often an allusion to John Milton ’ s, " himself a Christian agonist ", 1671 verse tragedy Samson Agonistes, which recounts the end of Samson's life, when he is a blind captive of the Philistines, described as being “ Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves ”.

It recounts Gaunt's own mentally internalized struggle to survive after being severely wounded in the events of the previous novel ; moments of spiritual communion also establish portents for his future.

He recounts that during his student days he was a left-leaning hippie, but that in the 1970s his political views underwent a volte-face.

In the second series of I'm Alan Partridge, Alan recounts a story about a time he was once caned for having a chalk penis drawn on the back of his school blazer by another student, an incident about which he still feels bitter.

It follows a non-linear narrative in the form of a sort of ' confession ' authored by Trumper, who humorously recounts his various failures in life and love, from his New England childhood through his experiences on foreign study in Vienna, Austria, and as a graduate student in Iowa, leading up to the present-action setting, early-1970s New York, where Trumper is attempting to sever himself from his adolescent past.

She's North Valley High School's student council president, a position she temporarily lost in " The President's a Frink " when Malcolm cheated his way into office ( with the help of a virus ) but she regained it when Principal Pratchert recounts the votes after Servo defeats the virus sent to change the results.

A classmate recounts how Elliot quoted the Bible to the president of the student body as explanation for his refusal to attend a school party.

* In Robert Heinlen's The Door Into Summer, Dr. Twitchell recounts a tale of a student whom he displaced in time by 500 years.

Rimmer later recounts an occasion on which Roebuck threw his favourite shoes into the school septic tank whilst he was wearing them.

Nameless recounts killing Long Sky at a weiqi parlor ; later to meet Flying Snow and Broken Sword at a calligraphy school in the Zhao state, where he set them against each other until Snow killed Sword and was herself slain by Nameless.

Flinn's best-selling memoir recounts the modern day-to-day trials of the program, and provides a further history of the school.

Finally, a short story in Superman / Batman # 26 ( June 2006 ) titled " Sam's Story ", Superman recounts his friend from high school who died of cancer when he was very young.

The novel recounts the days following Caulfield's expulsion from Pencey Prep, a university preparatory school based loosely on Valley Forge Military Academy, Salinger's alma mater.

Melton recounts that " vocationally, the most influential force in my life was the writings of a man I never met but who became my hero, Elmer Talmage Clark ... while my contemporaries became enthused with UFO's, Elvis Presley, or Alabama football, during my last year in high school one of Clarke's books, The Small Sects in America, captured my imagination.

Woods often missed school to watch cricket, and recounts that on more than one occasion he " got a jolly good caning ".

Little Men recounts six months in the life of the students at Plumfield, a school run by Professor Friedrich and Mrs. Josephine Bhaer.

Follow up to " Italian Neighbours " and recounts the milestones in the life of the author's children as they progress through the Italian school system.

Historian Joseph Allen recounts that on one occasion Nelson, whose eyesight was still suffering following his wound, offered toothpicks to an officer who had lost his teeth and then passed a snuff-box to an officer whose nose had been torn off, causing much embarrassment.

Herodotus recounts the story that Cynaegirus, brother of the playwright Aeschylus, who was also among the fighters, charged into the sea, grabbed one Persian trireme, and started pulling it towards shore.

Summer of Night ( 1991 ) recounts the childhood of a group of pre-teens who band together in the 1960s to defeat a centuries-old evil that terrorizes their hometown of Elm Haven, Illinois.

Critics have long taken as self-referential a passage in the Odyssey describing a blind bard, Demodocus, in the court of the Phaeacian king, who recounts stories of Troy to the shipwrecked Odysseus.

He recounts that the police officer who attended the incident reassured him by saying " Don't worry son, you've only broken your legs ".

Arkady Volsky, an aide to Andropov and other general secretaries, recounts an episode that occurred after a Politburo meeting on the day following Andropov's demise: As Politburo members filed out of the conference hall, either Andrei Gromyko or ( in later accounts ) Dmitriy Ustinov is said to have put his arm round Nikolai Tikhonov's shoulders and said: " It's okay, Kostya is an agreeable guy ( pokladisty muzhik ), one can do business with him ...." The Politburo failed to pass the decision for Gorbachev, who was nominally Chernenko's second in command, to run the meetings of the Politburo itself in the absence of Chernenko ; the latter due to his declining health, began to miss those meetings with increasing frequency.

A folktale told to John O ' Donovan by Shane O ' Dugan of Tory Island in 1835 recounts the birth of a grandson of Balor who grows up to kill his grandfather.

Laputa: Castle in the Sky ( 1986 ) recounts the adventure of two orphans seeking a magical castle-island that floats in the sky ; My Neighbor Totoro ( Tonari no Totoro, 1988 ) tells of the adventure of two girls and their interaction with forest spirits ; and Kiki's Delivery Service ( 1989 ), adapted from a novel by Eiko Kadono, tells the story of a small-town girl who leaves home to begin life as a witch in a big city.

One recounts that Washington Irving, who was traveling in Spain at the time, suggested the name to his brother, a local resident ; this explanation ignores the fact that Irving returned to the United States in 1832.

Mark Paytress recounts in the liner notes for the 2002 compilation, The Anthology, that Jah Wobble, Rotten's longtime friend and bassist for his post-punk venture PiL, once described Styrene as a " strange girl who often talked of hallucinating.

She recounts her story to the headmistress, who readmits her.

Coming around in the alcoholics ' ward of a hospital on Sunday, he is confronted by ' Bim ' Nolan who mockingly recounts the histories of other patients at " Hangover Plaza.

* The Duel, a short story by Joseph Conrad, recounts the story based on true events of two French Hussar officers who carry a long grudge and fight in duels each time they meet during the Napoleonic wars.

Ammianus Marcellinus recounts that the crisis was worsened by a corrupt Roman governor named Romanus during a major tribal raid who demanded bribes to protect the city.

He recounts his two-day experience without any food and tells of meeting Russian " Communists " who, he later concludes, on their disappearance, must be mere swindlers.

Examples of performers who went on to universal recognition are Jeremy Brett, Judi Dench, Rosemary Harris, Ian McKellen, Christopher Plummer, Harold Pinter, Imelda Staunton, Lynn Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Stewart, Geraldine McEwan, Ronnie Barker, Dirk Bogarde, who wrote about his start at tiny Amersham rep in 1939, and Michael Caine, who recounts his time spent at Horsham rep in the early fifties, to present just a few.

J. M. Coetzee's 1986 novel Foe recounts the tale of Robinson Crusoe from the aspect of Susan Barton who went on to star in another of DeFoe's novels.

In Thy Kingdom Come, Randall Balmer recounts comments that Paul M. Weyrich, who he describes as " one of the architects of the Religious Right in the late 1970s ", made at a conference, sponsored by a Religious Right organization, that they both attended in Washington in 1990:

" The Chronicle of Nantes continues until about 1050 and it recounts that Alain Barbe-Torte, who was the grandson of Alan the Great, the last king of Brittany who was expelled by the Norse, drove them out and founded the Duchy of Brittany.

For they … by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple ", and which recounts the parable of the Good Shepherd, and provides the procedure to be followed in dealing with those who err: