"This damn story I'm writing isn't any good.

STANTON: "I wish you would explain to your little nephew that the story of the poor fellow who almost died laughing was a kind of a dream of mine, and not a real thing that happened, any more than that an old woman 'lived in a shoe and had so many children she didn't know what to do,' or that Jack climbed the bean stalk and found the giant who lived at the top of it.

His story is, perhaps, the greatest which was ever represented in a poem of this nature; the action of it including the discovery and conquest of a new world.

The story is the most popular of all Lever's works, and in many respects the most characteristic.

There are many beautiful stories of child-life, but the story of the Boyhood of Jesus is the most beautiful of all.

But the story is only the most sensational of the many romantic inventions that have accumulated round Every's name.

Well researched and crisply written stories like the ones on the protests against charter tourism in the early 1990s were a joy to read long after the magazine became a pale shadow of itself.

Now these World Stories of Helma's were wonderful stories, but all true.

Baretti, in a MS. note on Piozzi Letters, ii. 12, says that the story was 'Mr. Cholmondeley's running away from his creditors.'

Beaufort, inspired by Gallic patriotism, has most excellently shown what a complete fable this story is.

But your whole story is a lie, because Sir Horace was dead when the prisoner left him.

There were reasons, grave ones for a time, why the story should not be toldin short, there was a love affair mixed with itbut those reasons no longer exist, and it seems a good thing to relate the facts in the case.

The story which Josephus tells to explain the defection of the Pharisees may be simply a popular tradition, but it is indicative of that division within Judaism which ultimately wrecked the Maccabean state.

+Theme LXXVII.+Complete the story on pages 79-80, or one of the following: THE AUDACIOUS REPORTER Soon after Fenimore Dayton became a reporter his city editor sent him to interview James Mountain.

In the present instance, he contented himself with the strongest assurance that the whole story was a mistake so far as it applied to Mr. Faber, who had, in fact, dismissed his assistant for the very crime of which they accused himself.

From the early days of Barry and Jones, when it swept the decks of King George's proud ships with merciless fire, down to the glories achieved by Admirals Dewey and Schley in our war with Spain, the story of our Navy is the pride and glory of our Republic.

Hence the Bible story of human origins is a mere myth; man has not fallen, but has risen by slow evolution from some ancestor common to him and apes, at a remote period, long sons prior even to the miocene period, which shows man to have been then as obstinately differentiated from the apes as ever.

The story of what they did in the war is a three-year epic.

"A story will be a godsend to-day.

But, as the story of the opera is a pretty piece of Norman romance, some fair penciller has sent us the sketches of the annexed cuts, and our Engraver has thus pitted himself with Grieve, Stanfield, Roberts, and scores of minor scene-painters, who are building canvass castles, and scooping out caverns for the King's Theatre, Covent Garden, and Drury Lane Theatres.

The story may be trivial, a mere expanded anecdote, yet it is sure to be so vitally treated that, like Maupassant's work, it grips and remains, and, what is more, it lifts and chastens or explains.

Mr. FARNOL, very wisely, plumps for America; and the new story is a thing of millionaires, crooks, graft and the like.

Others say the whole story is a clumsy attempt to discredit him with the Labour party.

The story with a moral is generally neither literature nor morality, except such unique examples as The Pilgrim's Progress or Everyman.

The story is a coxcomb appearing at Bath, vastly rich, all the ladies dying for him, all bursting to know who he is; but he goes by no other name than Mr. H.,a curiosity like that of the dames of Strasburg about the man with the great nose.