The gossips had food for conjecture for weeks, and many were the strange stories afloat.

Many ancient legends have sprung from the same germ, so that often we have practically the same fairy-story all over Europe.

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What is that story?" I told him the story briefly, carefully suppressing everything which would give him a clue to the identity of the veiled lady.

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After all, it was a story, as distinctly a story as if he had it in a book.

did she but know how she is surrounded, (as I then thought, as well as now think,) and what is intended, how much sooner would death be her choice, than so dreadful a situation!'And how effectually would her story, were it generally known, warn all the sex against throwing themselves into the power of ours, let our vows, oaths, and protestations, be what they will!'

The choir itself is cross-vaulted, and the sanctuary, except at its junction with the nave, is enclosed by an arcade of narrow stilted arches, the only ornament of the capitals being acanthus leaves; but those against the wall are elaborately storied with little figures.

He would sit by my bed and with his rough hand stroke my hair, while he poured into my ears ghastly stories of the many crimes that he had committed.

Ignoring the past career of a people, missionaries claim that Christianity is a new religion, whereas, to my mind, it is an "old, old story," which, if presented in intelligible words,that is to say, if expressed in the vocabulary familiar in the moral development of a peoplewill find easy lodgment in their hearts, irrespective of race or nationality.

These Perso-Arabian tales, in other words, are stories of random incident, loosely but charmingly told, with always the note of strangeness and unexpectedness.

Hence in Hamlet, though avowedly an old Northern story, there runs a tone of modish society, and in every respect the customs of the most recent period.

Side by side with these, it is true, the world receives loving attention, but always as the lower story merely, above which, with its own laws, rises the true fatherland, the kingdom of grace.

Fronting us was a narrow stair mounting steeply to the story overhead, and, after that moment's amazed hesitation, Godfrey sat down on the bottom step and removed his shoes, motioning us to do the same.

Ellen Whitelaw told him the story very plainly, making no attempt to conceal her husband's guilty part in the business; and the story being finished, she took him straight to the parlour where he had seen Marian for the first time after her marriage.

He saw the corn go in by the hopper into the trough which was the real hopper, for it kept constantly hopping to shake the corn down through a hole in the middle of the upper stone, which went round and round against the lower, so that between them they ground the corn to meal, which, in the story beneath, he saw pouring, a solid stream like an avalanche, from a wooden spout.

Presumably the eleven stories in The Loosing of the Lion's Whelps (MILLS AND BOON) are published for the first time, as we are not given any notice to the contrary, and I can imagine that Mr. JOHN OXENHAM'S many admirers will derive considerable pleasure from them.

And I suppose it is conceivable that a novel might exist which was just purely a story of that kind and nothing more.

Similarly the story of the expulsion of Hagar, it is thought, aims primarily to explain the origin of Israel's foes, the nomadic Ishmaelites, who lived south of Canaan.

Each testified to substantially the same story and they occupied seventeen full days in the telling, so that when the prosecution rested, forty-two days had been consumed since the first talesman had been called.

the death of leaping accents (p. 32)of the thick reckoning of a hoof (p. 33)of a pin-drop silence (p. 17)a readable look (p. 20)a half indifferent wonderment (p. 37)or of Boy-storied trees and passion-plighted spots,p. 38.

"New story upstairs," said the first footman, as he nibbled among the dessert things.