Pointer's narrative is the best.

The narratives are the work of writers who are recognized authorities on their several subjects, and while thoroughly trustworthy as history, present picturesque and dramatic "stories" of the Men and of the events connected with them.

His short, pithy narratives, each with its inevitable, though unobtrusive moral, are models of style.

His narrative was the simplest and most artistic exhibition of his case thus seen and presented from the point of their lives and natures, and not from the dry facts and points of his case; and his argument was all the more perfect, because not exhibited in skeleton nakedness, but incorporated and intertwined with the interior and essential life of persons and events.

That the serpent in the early part of Genesis denoted the same Satan, is probable enough; but this only goes to show, that that narrative is a legend imported from farther East; since it is certain that the subsequent Hebrew literature has no trace of such an Ahriman.

E. Personal narrative and adventure has, of late years, become so interesting a subject in the mind of the British public, that the author feels he is not called upon to apologize for the production of the following pages.

The narrative is quaint, embroidered with conceits, deficient in artistic completeness, but it has the naiveté and simplicity of youth, the charm of sincerity, the freedom of personal confidence; and so long as there are lovers in the world, so long as lovers are poets, so long will this first and tenderest love-story of modern literature be read with appreciation and responsive sympathy.

The names of the individuals whom I shall have occasion to introduce are, of course, disguised; but, with this exception, the narrative is the plainest possible record of my own experience.

But the narrative was not an idyll.

The narrative on his pages is the most distracting one ever written in the annals of civilized men.

Frederick Douglass's Narrative is the same story told from the inside.

I have just finished reading, with the utmost interest and admiration, J C's narrative of his escape from the wreck of the Poolaski: what a brave, and gallant, and unselfish soul he must be!

As a mere story the narrative is valueless: its sole claim to attention is its absolute truth.

Which narrative is the more concrete?

Major Frye's narrative is by far the oldest and seems the most trustworthy.

If any stories were obtained from native teachers who knew Spanish, we have always verified them by getting children or natives from other places, who knew no Spanish, to relate them, in order to assure ourselves that the narrative could not be a mere translation of a Spanish tale.

Guess I 'll hev t' go t' th' bottom.'" XV D'ri's narrative was the talk of the garrison.

It is the earnest desire of the Editor, that this narrative may be the means, under God, of awakening in the hearts of all who read it, a sympathy for the oppressed which shall manifest itself in immediate, active, self-sacrificing exertion for their deliverance; and, while it excites abhorrence of his crimes, call forth pity for the oppressor.

He listened with grave attention, and once or twice put a question when my narrative became a little disconnected.

This explained McKinlay's discovery as that of Gray's body, the narrative of the fight and massacre being merely ornamental additions by the natives.

A narrative of things already seen may, of course, be a trait of character in the person delivering it; but, in that case, it will generally be mendacious (for instance, Falstaff and the men in buckram).

The narrative of what it discloses it is now my purpose to make as brief as is compatible with common justice to my subject.

This narrative he has bequeathed to future generations, that no man hereafter may presume to say, "This day shall be a day of happiness.

It is mortifying to pursue a man of merit through all his difficulties; and yet this narrative must be, through many following years, the history of genius and virtue struggling with adversity.

This narrative has been much admired, notably by Lamb and Coleridge, critics from whom it is not good to differ; but I must nevertheless confess that, to my taste, Daniel's sentiment, here as elsewhere, is inclined to verge upon the fulsome and the ludicrous.