Those things are called relative, which, being either said to be of something else or
related to something else, are explained by reference to that other thing.
Most of the anecdotes, if not relating to the state service,
related to people in the service.
The events
related by GABRIEL BETTEREDGE, house-steward in the service of JULIA, LADY VERINDER
For it should be remembered that the competition will generally be most severe between those forms which are most nearly
related to each other in habits, constitution, and structure.
No circumstance of importance, from the beginning to the end of the disclosure, shall be
related on hearsay evidence.
What Benjamin thereupon told me, exactly coincided with what Miserrimus Dexter had told me--as
related in the thirtieth chapter of my narrative.
Graham's" remarkable question, addressed to the landlady, had
related to legal business, and to the discovery of a trust-worthy person capable of transacting it for her.
I could not recover myself in some time, till the governor assured me, "that I should receive no hurt:" and observing my two companions to be under no concern, who had been often entertained in the same manner, I began to take courage, and
related to his highness a short history of my several adventures; yet not without some hesitation, and frequently looking behind me to the place where I had seen those domestic spectres.
Tollmidge, "I never even heard of him, in my husband's lifetime; I never even knew that he was really
related to Lord Lydiard, till I found his letters.
But Fortune, who had other designs in her head, put an immediate stop to any such proceeding, by introducing an accident, which will be
related in the next chapter.
In very many published narratives no little degree of attention is bestowed upon dates; but as the author lost all knowledge of the days of the week, during the occurrence of the scenes herein
related, he hopes that the reader will charitably pass over his shortcomings in this particular.
Yet he has
related the incident herein set down to at least one person without exacting a pledge of secrecy.