A hundred yards distant from The Giantess was a silicious cone, very symmetrical but slightly corrugated upon its exterior surface, three feet in height and five feet in diameter at its base, and having an oval orifice twentyfour by thirty-six and one-half inches in diameter, with scalloped edges.

* Giantess Gallery – collages from an io9 article

She hails from the Heavenly Temple, the highest point in Magitopia, and is a Giantess.

They fall into the basement and find a collection of toys accumulated from Nebbercracker's lawn, as well as a cage containing the body of Constance the Giantess, Nebbercracker's wife, encased in cement.

* Ella Ewing -- Known as " The Missouri Giantess ", Worlds tallest woman in her era.

* Giantess Diffidence, Despair's wife.

A new Farmers ' Market building opened in May 2006, and the Creamery building is now home to The North Shore Archives and the Giantess Anna Swan Museum.

* The Fraser Cultural Centre acts as a visitor information centre, art gallery, and has an exhibition about the " Nova Scotia Giantess " Anna Swan.

Doublet Pool, Giantess Geyser and Lion Geyser, among others.

There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.

The ingredients of Faulkner's novels and stories are by no means new with him, and most of the problems he takes up have had the attention of authors before him.

And they have done this on a very large scale, with a veritable flood of novels and stories which are either dystopias or narratives of adventure with dystopian elements.

Not all recent science fiction, however, is dystopian, for the optimistic strain is still very much alive in Mission Of Gravity and Childhood's End, as we have seen, as well as in many other recent popular novels and stories like Fred Hoyle's The Black Cloud ( 1957 ) ; ;

Somehow, the pictures and stories of Soviet T-34 tanks on Cuban beaches and Russian Mig jet fighters strafing rebel troops has brought home to all of us the stark, blunt truth of what it means to have a Russian military base 90 miles away from home.

`` I have heard stories '', he writes, `` of the most terrible, the most unnatural actions, of the most monstrous murders, told with the most spontaneous, childishly merry laughter ''.

Two stories will illustrate what I have in mind.

But after that service, they decided to try to let the girls say grace at the table, have bedtime prayers, and Bible stories.

Adobe walls usually never rise above two stories because they are load bearing and have low structural strength.

In other stories, authors have used the word " android " to mean a wholly organic, yet artificial, creation.

Many of Christie ’ s books and short stories both set in the Middle East and back in England have a decidedly otherworldly influence in which religious sects, sacrifices, ceremony, and seances play a part.

There have been a number of radio adaptations of the Poirot stories, most recently twenty seven of them on BBC Radio 4 ( and regularly repeated on BBC 7 ), starring John Moffatt ( Maurice Denham and Peter Sallis have also played Poirot on BBC Radio 4, Mr. Denham in The Mystery of the Blue Train and Mr. Sallis in Hercule Poirot's Christmas ).

While Miss Marple is described as ' an old lady ' in many of the stories, her age is mentioned in " At Bertram's Hotel ", where it is said she visited the hotel when she was 14 and almost 60 years have passed since then.

Many of the stories have them travel to foreign countries, though others are set in and around their village.

Moreover, the ansibles Le Guin uses in her stories apparently have a very limited bandwidth which only allows for at most a few hundred characters of text to be communicated in any transaction of a dialog session.

The prose version has survived, but the Life is very much a hagiography: many of the stories it contains have obvious Biblical parallels, making them suspect as a historical record.

Many stories have developed since the founding long ago to become a part of America's folklore and cultural awareness, and non-native American folklore especially includes any narrative which has contributed to the shaping of American values and belief systems.

An Urban legend is a form of modern folklore consisting of stories that may or may not have been believed by their tellers to be true.

Kirk had long been researching fairies, and the book collected several personal accounts and stories of folk who claimed to have encountered them.

Images and stories of flight have appeared throughout recorded history, such as the legendary story of Icarus and Daedalus.

One popular technique is to mock external interfaces or data to mimic other stories which might not be played out during an iteration ( as those stories may have been relatively lower business priority ).

" Folktale scholar Hugh H. Trotti has argued that Boone ’ s account may have been the inspiration for some of the Bigfoot stories told in North America.

However, from a conservative approach, Joyce G. Baldwin argued that " old, authentic stories would have provided comfort to sufferers of later generations far more convincingly than a book of new parables.

He had become the center of the company, such stories he had to tell.

His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!

The story has an interesting interpretive history ( see below ) and has become well-known through popular children's stories.

In the stories, the PFY ( Pimply-Faced Youth ) is the BOFH's assistant ; this too has become a general term for a junior or trainee system administrator.

This is a frequent occurrence in sitcoms, where networks may agree to continue a show, but only if a certain character is emphasized, leading other minor characters to become victims of Chuck Cunningham Syndrome, while the emphasized character ( usually a Breakout Character ) ( as in the case of Frasier Crane ) develops a more complete back story that ignores previous, more simplified back stories.

The descriptions of Carmilla and the character of Lucy in Dracula are similar, and have become archetypes for the appearance of the waif-like victims and seducers in vampire stories as being tall, slender, languid, and with large eyes, full lips and soft voices.

Don Quixote interrupts when Cardenio suggests that his beloved may have become unfaithful after the formulaic stories of spurned lovers in Chivalric novels.

Luthor's romantic aspirations toward Lois Lane, established early on in the series, become a focal point of the stories immediately following it.

Messages like the importance of collective labor and rags-to-riches stories would become the plots of most Soviet musicals.

By the 1930s, stories about reaching Mars had become somewhat trite, and the focus shifted to Mars as an alien landscape.

Some regions independently developed a character similar to Nasreddin, and the stories have become part of a larger whole.

However, during the 16th century the stories become fixed to the 1190s, the period in which King Richard was absent from his throne, fighting in the crusades.

The graveyard of former greats is littered with examples where the balance of risk went seriously awry ; the ENRON and RBS stories have become iconic references in the pantheon of corporate governance and corporate mortality.

During this time period stories were circulating that going to college led girls to become childless and never be married.

Whether the passage is simply to provide a brief token, foreign witness of Solomon's wealth and wisdom, or whether there is meant to be something more significant to the queen's visit is unknown ; nevertheless the visit of the Queen of Sheba has become the subject of numerous stories.

Thus, tax collectors often monitor newspaper articles for stories about wealthy people who have lent art to museums for public display, because the artworks have then become subject to personal property tax.

As the term tabloid has now become linked to stories about crime and scandal, some small-format papers which claim a higher standard of journalism refer to themselves as compact newspapers instead.

Some well-known stories include Zhuan Zhu's assassination of King Liao of Wu, and most notably, Jing Ke's attempt on the life of the King of Qin ( who would become Qin Shi Huang later ).

Wuxia stories have become a new genre of writing within Chinese society and have remained popular in several countries with significant Chinese-speaking communities, such as Taiwan, Singapore, Vietnam and Malaysia.

Being an early pioneer next to Rodolphe Töpffer in the art of combining words and pictures to tell often humorous stories in sequential panels, throughout the latter half of the 20th century Busch has become posthumously known in German by the honorary epithet of Großvater der Comics (" Grandfather of Comics ").

Patton grew up hearing Mosby's stories of his adventures, and longed to become a general himself.

To emphasise how fine a line the police ( and Fitz ) walk in their close association with criminals, all three series featured several stories in which the police themselves commit criminal acts or become victims of crime.

As a result, the title Gundam has become a collective term for the seven distinct but related timelines that can be pieced together from the stories that appear in the Gundam franchise.

Lewis suggested that he did not directly intend to write his Narnia stories as Christian tales, but that these aspects appeared subconsciously as he wrote, although the books did become Christian as they progressed.