As a sort of pendant to the Protestant Bonivard, we have the nun Jeanne de Jussie who in her Levain du Calvinisme ( c. 1545 ) recounts the establishment of Calvinism at Geneva, while the noble Pierre de Pierrefleur in his Mémoires does the same in a lighter and less lachrymose style for Orbe, his native district.

The English author Laurie Lee recounts meeting Campbell in the Toledo chapter of As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, the second volume of his autobiographical trilogy.

Lee is the originator and writer of the BBC Radio 4 trilogy This Sceptred Isle, which recounts the history of Britain from the Romans to the death of Queen Victoria, the 20th century and the British Empire.

The novel begins with the introduction of " Lee ," who recounts his life in Mexico City among an American expatriate college students and bar owners surviving on part-time jobs and GI Bill benefits.

The second story recounts the tale of the " girl-bird " Gertrude McFuzz, who has a small, plain tail feather and envies Lolla Lee Lou, who has two feathers.

He recounts how if he tries to shut the word of the Lord inside and not mention God ’ s name, the word becomes like fire in his heart and he is unable to hold it in.

This sole attestation appears in the poem Hávamál, where Odin recounts his gaining of nine magical songs from Bestla ’ s unnamed brother — in other words, Odin ’ s maternal uncle:

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

A second Rawlinson album, Sir Henry at N ' didi ’ s Kraal ( 1984 ), recounts Sir Henry's disastrous African expedition, but omits the rest of the Rawlinson clan.

This idea is vividly illustrated in book 2 of the Republic when Glaucon, taking up Thrasymachus ’ challenge, recounts a myth of the magical ring of Gyges.

In a series of fantasy sequences at the Grand Hotel, Gradisca is encouraged to bed the Fascist high official in return for government funds to rebuild the town's harbour while pimple-faced Biscein recounts the night he made love to twenty-eight women in the visiting sultan ’ s harem.

The Spaniards were drawn by the vision of the firefly illumination and as one version of the legend recounts, they met the island ’ s ruler – the legendary King Kihod while they were docking their ship at one of Siquijor ’ s bays.

In 1969 Ray encountered Chögyam Trunpa ’ s autobiography entitled “ Born in Tibet .” In an unpublished interview Ray recounts knowing immediately that this was his teacher, though he had to wait until 1970 for Trungpa to arrive in the U. S. in order to meet him.

The first person narrator of Stephen Vincent Benét ’ s short story The Last Of The Legions is a legionary of the Victoria Victrix, who recounts the events and the impressions of soldiers and populace surrounding the departure of the legion from Britain.

Enoch ’ s first dream vision in 1 Enoch 83 recounts the dream that Enoch had in the house of Mahalalel his grandfather, and which Mahalalel explains to him.

In El día decisivo ( The Decisive Day ), Pinochet recounts the coup d ’ état, affirming he was the leading plotter.

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 ”.

Set in Elm Haven, Illinois, in 1960, Summer of Night recounts its five pre-teen protagonists ’ discovery that eerie, terrifying events are unfolding in the Old Central School.

However, an article in The New Yorker recounts that Jong ’ s sister, Suzanna Daou ( née Mann ), identified herself at a 2008 conference as the reluctant model for Isadora Wing, calling the book “ an exposé of my life when I was living in Lebanon ”.

( issue 123 ): One of Bigby and Snow ’ s cubs recounts a misadventure between a certain Wolf Lord, a swindled sorcerer and a beautiful, green-skinned lady named Lake.

In the first part of “ White Tigers ,” Kingston recounts her mother ’ s talk-story of Fa Mu Lan, a woman warrior who took her father ’ s place in battle.

Using her mother ’ s old diplomas and photos from her years in China, Kingston recounts the story of her mother ’ s life as a lady scholar.

Indeed, it is difficult for the reader to be much more than amazed at the brazenness of a man who can thank God for having good thoughts right after he recounts having a tryst with another man ’ s wife.

Australian Rolling Stone magazine reviewed Real Wild Child with this description: Rage ’ s long-time producer recounts the humorous, often slapstick events of a Rage taping.

Zumthor ’ s Vals spa recounts the thinking he describes in his essay, making appeals to all the senses.

Creech challenged that result with a petition under the provisions of the Electoral Act ; supported initially by MPs Roger McClay and Winston Peters ( who had been involved in recounts in Taupo and Hunua ) but not the party hierarchy, according to Creech ’ s account in a book by Ross Meurant.

The Bill Douglas Trilogy recounts the harrowing experiences of a young boy, Jamie, growing up in crippling poverty: material and emotional impoverishment ; harrowing privations at the hands of his paternal grandmother ; incarceration in a children ’ s home ; living in a hostel for down-and-outs.

The third movement is sung by Nicolas alone, who recounts how “ My parents died … All too soon I left the tranquil beauty of their home … and knew the wider world of men .” Nicolas then bemoans his distress over man ’ s faults and devotes himself to a life of service to God.

John Smith of Jamestown | John Smith's The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles recounts early English attempts to settle New England.

De Palma recalls that he was “ floored ” by this performance upon first sight, and in 1973 recounts how he " began to try and figure out a way to capture it on film.

The Israelite people generally used the term “ king ,” because their desire, 1 Samuel recounts, was to be like the other nations (; ).

However, this intuitive strain was incomplete without a sense of “ maturity and self-discipline .” One story in the public canon recounts how Chkalov tells a little boy he sees fighting a small girl to stop fighting and to focus his energy on his studies.

The novel “ The pearls of Ms. Salkım ” ( Salkım Hanımın Taneleri ), written by Turkish author Yilmaz Karakoyunlu, recounts stories and witnesses of the non-Muslims during the Varlik Vergisi.

“ Prof. Lefler later recounts: “ If there had been no Loyal League in North Carolina, there would have been no Ku Klux Klan, or clubbing together of the white people there … Still the negroes operate upon each other, so that one dare not depart from the ranks ; they are arrayed yet in a solid phalanx …” He later quotes from a Congressional investigation into the origins of the KKK in North Carolina: “ It was at a time when the republican party had three secret organizations in operation in the state, the Union League, the Heroes of America, and the Red Strings.

Rogers recounts the events of the “ Second War of Independence ” that precedes the first victory of Americans over Hans, in which he plays an important role.

Michigan's Former Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop still recounts that Mrs. Land would always say, “ I won't need more funds.

Chapter VII recounts her most well-known answer after being asked by Beaupere, “ Are you in a state of Grace .” de Conte states that with simple gravity she answers, “ If I be not in a state of Grace, I pray God place me in it ; if I be in it, I pray God keep me so .”

Man becomes man as he refines himself ; he even becomes godlike: “ Deus est mortali iuvare mortalem ,” wrote Pliny, translating a Greek Stoic, “ To help man is man ’ s true God .” Finally, the man who practiced humanitas cultivated his aesthetic sensibilities as he listened to his reason: " Cum musis ,” wrote Cicero, “ id est, cum humanitate et doctrina habere commercium ".< ref > Peter Gay's citation of the phrase, Cum musis, etc., refers to an anecdote in the Tusculan Disputations, in which Cicero recounts how during a visit to Syracuse, in Sicily, he had chanced to discover the tomb of Archimedes, at that time unknown to the inhabitants of the city, but which he, Cicero, recognized from its description in a line of poetry he had memorized ; and he contrasted the enduring fame of Archimedes, the mathematician, to the obloquy of the notorious Sicilian tyrant Dionysius the Elder, buried nearby: “ Who is there who has had anything at all to do with the Muses, that is, with humanity and learning, who would not prefer to be this mathematician rather than that tyrant?

Darwin recounts that one day, Brown told him personally that he challenged Cullen on “ the incomprehensible ideas of atony and spasm existing in the same vessels of the body at the same time ” and “ thereby provoked him to manifest signs of impatience and displeasure ” the result being a “ coolness ” that “ increased at last … to rooted aversion and deep opposition .” But it was this resistance from Cullen and irritation of mind that it provoked that is, according to Darwin, “ to be ascribed no small portion of that resolution and energy with which he laboured out a System of Medical Philosophy, which, though not free from errors, borrows, however, none from Cullen .”

" Among many cultural events of the decade that he witnessed, Delany recounts his attendance at the first New York City performance of artist Allan Kaprow's 18 Happenings in 6 Parts, the 1959 performance piece that, for many, marks the end of modernism and the beginning of postmodernism.

An old anecdote recounts that when Strauss's wife Adele asked Brahms to autograph her fan, he wrote the first few notes of the " Blue Danube " waltz, and then wrote the words " Unfortunately not by Johannes Brahms!

Thorne recounts the changes to the old village of Plaistow, with the gentry, merchants and others of renown having gone and the occupations of the residents changed from agricultural and pastoral to manufacturing.

The story recounts the encounter between a servant and an old woman in the dilapidated Rashōmon, the southern gate of the then ruined city of Kyoto, where unclaimed corpses were sometimes dumped.

She recounts that when she was 13 years old, Major Hartley, a friend of her widowed mother, had repeatedly raped her while her mother was away.

His attendants tell him differing stories regarding the happenings in the castle until an old man recounts his father's words: within the castle lies a beautiful princess who is doomed to sleep for a hundred years, whereupon a king's son is to come and awaken her.

The exactness with which the narrator recounts murdering the old man, as if his stealthy way of executing the crime is evidence of his sanity, reveals his monomania and paranoia.

The poem was originally sent to Hagar Olsson in an April 1920 letter where Edith recounts flu, abject poverty and a humiliating attempt to sell some old underwear to get money.

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.

Lorelei invites the old gent to her and Dorothy's cabin, whereupon he recounts his travels to Africa.

Another tale recounts his bringing his ship into Trearddur Bay during the war for old times ' sake.

The fragment then recounts the early life of Harald Wartooth but breaks off ; it resumes with the arrival of Sigurd Ring, Harald's old age, and the colossal Battle of Brávellir.

He recounts the summer in his aunts ' cottage when he was seven years old.

The book " If You're A Wee Bit Irish: a chart of old Irish families collected from folk tradition " by William Durning ( 1978 ) recounts an alleged ancestry of Caoilte back to Adam.

He recounts that in the old days, Cronos judged men just before they died, and divided them into two categories.

" However, in his history of the development of San Francisco from the 1950s to the 1990s Chester Hartman recounts that the entire Yerba Buena project was long drawn out over 3 decades, born of a local struggle that included evictions and harassment of the previous tenants in the area, most of them old and poor, but who had joined together to fight for their rights.

The old woman insists that Nikki has won the role, and recounts two Polish folk tales.