Then he produced the records which he had pretended to bum, and read lengthy extracts.

He spoke as if he were reading extracts from a diary.

He'll read extracts from the works of American writers who travelled to Paris after the first world war.

Once I started reading extracts from books and peppering the talk with anecdotes about children, the atmosphere in the hall improved.

In it, they read extracts from the letters, drawing out the parallels and contrasts between Len's life and their own.

From some of them he had read extracts to his mother.

He even tried reading extracts from Brown's speech with a ham Churchill accent.

Bukhanovsky read extracts from his 65-page psychological profile to Chikatilo.

Often when reading extracts from this handsome volume, I was struck by the seeming modernity of his approach.

Now and then he read extracts aloud to her with either humorous or salacious comment.