telling
/ˈtɛlɪŋ/ noun A1- The act of narration.
- The disclosure of information.
- Ability to determine.
Plural tellings
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So Alice began telling them her adventures from the time when she first saw the White Rabbit.
That will be a new thing in logic, and a feat in story-telling somewhat older than the great wall of China.
It was the jackal--Tabaqui, the Dish-licker--and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about making mischief, and telling tales, and eating rags and pieces of leather from the village rubbish-heaps.
They explored all the passages and dark tunnels in the palace and the hundreds of little dark rooms, but they never remembered what they had seen and what they had not; and so drifted about in ones and twos or crowds telling each other that they were doing as men did.
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