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Chronicle

noun

A record or narrative description of past events. Synonyms: account, history, story. "He gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president" , "The story of exposure to lead"

verb

(past & past part. chronicled; pres. part. chronicling)

Record in chronological order; make a historical record.

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... tale of mystery—a villain with a "strange and sinister expression," a boy who, like the youthful Shelley, steals forth by night to graveyards, hoping to attain to fearful secrets, and an aged servant, a living chronicle of horrors, who relates the doings of an Irish wizard, Morshed Tyrone, of such awful power that the spirits of the earth, air and ocean ministered to him. In Godolphin (1833) there is an astrologer with the furrowed brow and awful eye, so common among the people of ...

— The Tale of Terror • Edith Birkhead

... to the study of British India we particularly recommend, as one of the best epitomes that our literature possesses."—North Wales Chronicle. ...

— A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses • J. S. Rarey

... chronicle of the flights and air battles of the period of the war under review would contain a record where hardly a day passed without some flight or contest of greater or less significance. A duel between two hostile airmen might be of less ...

— The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) • Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds, Allen L. (Allen Leon)

... a sinister aptness of alliteration! Razumov had heard of him. He had heard so much since crossing the frontier of these celebrities of the militant revolution; the legends, the stories, the authentic chronicle, which now and then peeps out before a half-incredulous world. Razumov had heard of him. He was supposed to have killed more, gendarmes and police agents than any revolutionist living. He had been ...

— Under Western Eyes • Joseph Conrad

... begin to write its history at the first moment of its existence. Hence, when the chronicle is compiled which first embodies its story, tradition forms the basis. None but an inspired historian can commence In principio. The nation has passed through several generations, the people already begin to talk of "old times;" ...

— An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 • Mary Frances Cusack

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