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  • passage — a slow, cadenced trot executed with great elevation of the feet and characterized by a moment of suspension before the feet strike the ground.
  • quote — to repeat (a passage, phrase, etc.) from a book, speech, or the like, as by way of authority, illustration, etc.
  • quotation — something that is quoted; a passage quoted from a book, speech, etc.: a speech full of quotations from Lincoln's letters.
  • selection — an act or instance of selecting or the state of being selected; choice.
  • piece — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
  • citation — A citation is an official document or speech which praises a person for something brave or special that they have done.
  • fragment — fragmentation
  • portion — a part of any whole, either separated from or integrated with it: I read a portion of the manuscript.
  • notation — a system of graphic symbols for a specialized use, other than ordinary writing: musical notation.
  • note — a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
  • part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
  • saying — what a person says or has to say.
  • section — a part that is cut off or separated.
  • pericope — a selection or extract from a book.

verb excerpt

  • cull — If items or ideas are culled from a particular source or number of sources, they are taken and gathered together.
  • glean — to gather slowly and laboriously, bit by bit.
  • choose — If you choose someone or something from several people or things that are available, you decide which person or thing you want to have.
  • cite — If you cite something, you quote it or mention it, especially as an example or proof of what you are saying.
  • pick — to cast (a shuttle).
  • select — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
  • pick out — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
  • single out — only one in number; one only; unique; sole: a single example.
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