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Narrations of texts by Rebecca Cox Jackson, a 19th-century Black Shaker eldress, and words and music by Alice Coltrane are crucial to the weave.

From New York Times • Sep. 3, 2020

But they who have not seen such experiences, ought to refer themselves to the Narrations, and authority of such, who have seen such things.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

No Solifidian can believe the particular Narrations of their Barbarism, and Cruelty in those Countreys.

From A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. by Casas, Bartolomé de las

Incidents and Events in the Life of Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, collected from personal Narrations and other Sources, and arranged by his Nephew, Henry E. Hamilton.

From The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830 by Boggess, Arthur Clinton

We shall next take notice of one or two Instances of the Shortness and Clearness of his Narrations; as that which Tully mentions.

From Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies (1694) by Barnard, John