31721 examples of story in sentences

Do you recollect a story I told you?" "A story?

Do you recollect a story I told you?" "A story?

Babe's voice humming a waltz tune rose from the second story.

The story ran that it was full of uncounted riches; the village folk would shake their heads and say: "Ah! if I'd only as much as lies in old Sivert his chest!"

This story tells how he got even.

The story is a very good story, and impressed them," he went on, counting out the bills as he spoke, "to the extent of fifty five dollars.

"Wouldn't he take it?" Gallegher stopped and straightened himself as though about to tell with proper dramatic effect the story of the night's adventure, and then, as though the awe of it still hung upon him, backed slowly to the door, and said, confusedly, "No, sir; he washe didn't need it.

" "I am quite sure," said Gordon, seriously, "that the story Phillips will never write is a true story, but he will not write it because people would say it is impossible, just as you have all seen sunsets sometimes that you knew would be laughed at if any one tried to paint them.

She had heard his story so far without any show of attention, and had been watching, rather with a touch of fondness in her eyes, the clever, earnest face of Arbuthnot, who was following Gordon's story with polite interest.

The porters could not understand him, and he found me sympathetic, I suppose, or else he did not care, and only wanted to speak of her to some one, and so he told me the story over and over again as I walked beside the litter, or as we sat by the fire at night.

It was the story of Othello and Desdemona over again.

" The entire story, from which this is an extract, is finely told, and the fitness of the passage is beyond dispute.

The story is told with real pathos and impressive force.

A similar lyric, in the story called The Sisters, might have come straight from the pen which has given us "Mine be a cot beside a hill," and is not so wholly irrelevant to its context as the one just cited.

It occurred to him that while making large omissions he might preserve the story in each case, by substituting brief prose abstracts of the portions omitted.

As has been more than once remarked, these stories belong to the category of fiction as well as of poetry, and the duration of their power to attract was affected not only by the appearance of greater poets, but of prose story-tellers with equal knowledge of the human heart, and with other gifts to which Crabbe could make no claim.

Furthermore, refugees from Haiti settled in Baltimore, Norfolk, Charleston, and New Orleans, where they gave Negroes a first-hand story of how black men of the West Indies had righted their wrongs.

The Story of the Negro.

Travelers through the west, particularly on the coast states bring back the story of optimism that seems to be characteristic of the enterprising people who migrated west in the early days.

Very often she would take a position at her window, in an upper story, and scold at her slaves while working in the garden, at some distance from the house, (a large yard intervening,) and occasionally order a flogging.

I remember very well that when I was a child, our next door neighbor whipped a young woman so brutally, that in order to escape his blows she rushed through the drawing-room window in the second story, and fell upon the street pavement below and broke her hip.

GOSPEL TRUMPET COMPANY Bible story book.

An inside story of law publishing.

The picture story book for tiny tots, by Helen Cowles Le Cron and Bertha Shore Jewett.

STORY, ELIZABETH MONROE.

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