If she'd kept on as she'd been going, the story I'd told Gladdy would probably have been true by now, anyhow

It consisted of racy and often satirical spoken ( English ) dialogue, interspersed with songs that are deliberately kept very short to minimize disruptions to the flow of the story.

The small Skye Terrier reputedly kept vigil over his deceased master's grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard for 14 years in the 1870s and 80s, giving rise to a heart-warming story of canine devotion which plays its part in attracting visitors to the city.

He kept all of the stories submitted to his magazine, even the ones he rejected ; Stephen King has stated that Ackerman showed up to a King book signing with a copy of a story King had submitted for publication when he was 11.

Kedrenos also records the story, considered rather implausible, that Kallinikos ' descendants, a family called " Lampros " (" Brilliant "), kept the secret of the fire's manufacture, and continued doing so to his day.

The group kept saying, " No, this is a story that's pretty familiar to people.

Perhaps in our generation the counsel of our Talmudic sages may seem superfluous, for today the story of our enslavement in Egypt is kept alive not only by ritualistic symbolism, but even more so by tragic realism.

The story is that a small group of monks from Peterborough made their way to Bamburgh where Oswald's uncorrupted arm was kept and stole it under the cover of darkness.

He adapted the Moonmouse from the earlier story, removing its tail " because it kept getting into the soup ".

Pulitzer, though lacking Hearst's resources, kept the story on his front page.

The original Eleusinian Mysteries were a mystery kept secret for almost three-thousand years and the basic story, as portrayed, is all that is available.

The story, perhaps apocryphal, is that " Hamp ", a drummer at the time, was playing at the NBC Radio studios, where he discovered a vibraharp that was kept on hand to play the musical motif identifying the NBC network, the " NBC Chimes ".

Barrett was in possession of notes Roddenberry kept of story and series ideas ; after his death, these notes provided the basis for this series.

Later in the 20th century Shackleton was " rediscovered ", and rapidly became a cult figure, a role model for leadership as one who, in extreme circumstances, kept his team together in a survival story described by polar historian Stephanie Barczewski as " incredible ".

It is a story that has been kept quiet.

In the story, the monster was kept in the castle all his life and his suite of rooms bricked up after his death.

The character was further elaborated in this story by the claim that he never drew plans of his inventions but kept it all in his mind ; this proved a bit of a problem when he suffered from amnesia.

One suggested reason for this tradition is a story that tells that initially this was a white carnation that was kept in a red inkpot between exams, so by the last exam it was fully red.

The same scholiast related a popular story that the poet kept two boxes, one empty and the other full-the empty one being where he kept favours, the full one being where he kept his money.

In Malaysian folklore, a similar story involves a tame bear, kept by a Malay hunter as the guardian of his young daughter.

A popular story is that when Raleigh was beheaded by James I in 1618, Elizabeth claimed his embalmed head and kept it in a bag for the rest of her life.

But there was one element in the story which kept me from my customary bitterness.

The reason why we see so little mentioned from this section of Virginia in the story of the Revolution is that the men were kept busy watching the Indians.

They closed in fast, kept him from reaching inside his coat for his gun.

Something clicked in this instance, but I treated her circumspectly and I felt that she knew it, for we both kept our distance.

In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.

Then he kept Blackman awake for more than an hour while he did an imaginary dialogue between his wife and himself in which, discussing the evening, he was continually berated.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.

The plane was sent back to the United States, for a change, but Castro kept the crazy gunman, who will prove a suitable recruit to the revolution.

A truth-revealing crisis erupted in Katanga for a couple of days this month, to be quickly smothered by the high pressure verbal fog that is kept on tap for such emergencies.

The unabashed sexuality of so many of his paintings was not the only thing that kept the public at bay: his view of the world was one of almost unrelieved tragedy, and it was too much even for morbid-minded Vienna.

for he kept on threatening that he would `` pull the ears '' of those responsible for agricultural production.

The pressure for our entry to the Common Market is mounting and we will proceed towards this amalgamated trade union by way of a purely `` economic thoroughfare '', or garden path, with the political ramifications kept neatly in the background.

The morning hawk, hungry for any eatable, killable, digestible item, kept his eyes on the ring of anchored ships that lay off the shores in the bay, sheltered by the Jersey inlets.

She had made curtains for all the windows of her little house, and she had kept it spotless and neat, shabby as it was, and cooked good meals for Bobby Joe.

It is kept in each Regional office for the small firms within the region.

Because of the authentic homogeneity of his early Nationalistic materials, and his flair for orchestrations -- his brilliant Petruchka, his savage Sacre Du Printemps, his incisive Les Noces -- the world kept hoping that he could recapture the historical direction for which his native talents were predisposed.

Keep the retirement age flexible so skilled craftsmen such as tool and die makers can be kept on the job for the convenience of the company.

But they kept on clapping for a long, long time.

unfortunately, no one has kept complete records of one individual, whereas many have been made for a very short period of time.

Separate pails were kept in the kitchen for coffee grounds and egg shells.

Hens are kept on the range and roosters are kept with them for their fertility.