Meanings of long recital in English

And I hardly see the point of this long recital of crimes.

Lees listened to the long recital as already recorded at the coroner's inquest.

That will fatigue you less than making a long recital.

He was a little weary of the German's long recital.

The unfortunate ex-pirate seemed exhausted by the long recital of his experiences, and looked very weak.

Manning and Greig settled themselves comfortably in their chairs, prepared to listen to a long recital.

Perhaps the reader is tired of the long recital of the monotonous succession of assaults and repulses.

Pender's face was grey and drawn; the hunted expression dominated it; the long recital had told upon him.

It was a long recital of symptoms and sufferings, his nervousness, his sleeplessness, and the state of his heart.

The little gray head again bent over the darning, which had lain almost untouched in her lap during her long recital.

Another long pause, and then another long recital in gibberish by the old woman, broken by the same coughing and groaning as before.

The invalid sank back upon his cushions, tired out by this long recital, while his nurse poured him out a glass of some stimulating medicine.

Gabael knelt down before the old man and gave him the ten silver talents, telling him, in a long recital, of Tobias's exploits in Medea.

Our hostess was not offended, and there followed a long recital of earlier-day hard times that you would scarcely believe any one could live through.

He scarcely interrupted me through my long recital, unless an occasional heavy scowl at some special perfidy of the chevalier's could be called an interruption.

"And where," said Andrew at the end of this long recital, "do I fit in?"