Sentence examples for the custom of reading from inspiring English sources

One reaction against the excesses of the theatre was the custom of reading tragedies aloud to select gatherings of intellectuals.

The Gramercy custom of reading poetry before the "family meals" that precede each service, however, met with resistance.

It looked a little queer because while he had been told how to spell the words, he hadn't been told about the American custom of reading from left to right, so that the sign read thus, HCAE cent 1.

Before literacy was widespread, a person who could read would sometimes do so in public for the benefit of others, and well into the 19th century there was a custom of reading aloud as family entertainment.

THE CUSTOM OF THE ARMY, by Diana Gabaldon.

THE CUSTOM OF THE SEA, by Neil Hanson.

Trumpism may, sadly, be the custom of the day, but customs can change.

Later at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art she reads about the customs of earring-wear throughout the ages.

As a child, and in common with the customs of the time, he had to read the Bible aloud every evening, a habit that may well account for the magisterial narrative sweep of his style.

Results obtained were filtered using custom python scripts to identify the number of reads mapped with 100% of identity.

A custom Perl script then determined the number of reads mapped to each contig from the alignment file.