I would write down the story of those sweet, old days; but it would be like the tearing of old wounds; yet, after that which has happened, what need have I to care?

He told his stories in a half-amused, detached manner which imposed confidence more readily than any amount of earnest asseveration.

Wal, Crop and I had Seen about all there was to be looked at about Tupper's Lake, and havin' hearn some pretty tall stories about the deer and moose up about the head of Bog River from an Ingen who'd hunted that section, I mentioned to Crop one mornin' that we'd take a trip into them parts.

One hears amusing stories from some diplomatists of the rigid etiquette in court circles, which the Americans were always infringing.

If I were telling a story for amusement's sake, I should probably place it on that night of nights; but this is a true record of my own experiences, and I would not put pen to paper to amuse anyone.

They make a four-wheeled car, and on it erect a structure of five stories by means of bamboos tied together.

"I SEE BY YOUR CIRCULAR THAT VISITORS OF DISTINCTION HAVE FREE ACCESS TO YOUR READING-ROOM, AND AS I HAVE CONTRIBUTED A STORY TO THE 'WAYERLY MAGAZINE,'" etc. Nottmuch, (having obtained access to the reading-room.)

Slade had told his story with fire, with something of passion, even.

And even should any fail to see, as now I see, the shadowed picture and conception of that to which one may well give the accepted titles of Heaven and Hell; yet can I promise certain thrills, merely taking the story as a story.

THE STORY ON CAPTAIN LENDY'S BRAVE DEED.

Rawdon told that story at the clubs, at the mess, to everybody in town.

"Perhaps you would rather tell your story without interruption.

Though, since this relation, she is calumniated by some people that are friends to the brother of Mrs. Veal who appeared, who think the relation of this appearance to be a reflection, and endeavor what they can to blast Mrs. Bargrave's reputation and to laugh the story out of countenance.

He tells his story like an old man, past political service, bragging to his sons on winter evenings of the part he took in public transactions when "his old cap was new."

" "Seems to me our war was a finer story than any you could find in Europe, and the best way to study it would be to fight it out.

A woman's voice telling stories behind shadow pictures, and the capricious play of the black puppets on her lighted screen, had the effect of incantation.

But he told her story after story, many of them piteous enough.

Late writers degrade the story into a beauty contest between three thoroughly personal goddessesand a contest complicated by bribery.

Jutting a story above the one-storied march of Winchester Road, The Convenience Merchandise Corner, Benson, overlooks, from the southeast up-stairs window, a remote view of the City Hospital, the Ferris-wheel of an amusement park, and on clear days the oceanic waves of roof.

Acton and Diggory were made to tell their story over twenty times.

I shall always believe that it was his own story under another name, and I love to believe it because it was so exactly his way of looking at things.

It seems that some one has spread the story among them that Lincoln has sent Butler to Fort Monroe to receive all the negroes on the Peninsula.

There is a story against Thomas Aquinas, that on being invited by a frisky brother-monk to come and see a cow flying, or some such marvel, he gravely came and saw not, but expressed himself far more astounded at the miracle that a religious man should say "the thing which was not."

The roof is left off, and the stories between basement and garret have never been inserted.

Consequently they all three presented themselves to the president of the faculty and, in the best way they could, laid the story before him.