and frightening, as when a wife tells the police that it is funny, but her husband hasn't been home for two days and nights ''.

One veracious woman tells me she has used thin potato parings for both corns and calluses on her feet and they remove the pain or `` fire ''.

-- Farm machinery dealer Bob Houtz tilts back in a battered chair and tells of a sharp pickup in sales: `` We've sold four corn pickers since Labor Day and have good prospects for 10 more.

In chapter 21 of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, for example, Poirot talks about a mentally disabled nephew: this proves to be a ruse so that he can find out about homes for the mentally unfit, and in Dumb Witness, Poirot tells of an elderly invalid mother as a pretence to investigate the local nurses.

Diodorus Siculus tells us that upon the assassination of the tyrant Jason of Pherae, in 370 BC, his brother Polydorus ruled for a year, but he was then poisoned by Alexander, another brother.

Through Amos, God tells the people that he is going to judge Israel for its sins, and it will be a foreign nation that will enact his judgment.

* 1397 – Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II.

A contemporary report tells that Thorkell the Tall attempted to save Ælfheah from the mob about to kill him by offering them everything he owned except for his ship, in exchange for Ælfheah's life ; Thorkell's presence is not mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, however.

It tells of how Jones and his fireman Sim Webb raced their locomotive to make up for lost time, but discovered another train ahead of them on the line, and how Jones remained on board to try to stop the train as Webb jumped to safety.

Edited, with an Afterword, by Sharrar, Avery Hopwood's The Great Bordello, a Story of the Theatre, is a roman à clef that tells the story of Edwin Endsleigh — Hopwood ’ s fictional counterpart — who graduates from the University of Michigan and heads for Broadway to earn his fortune and the security to pursue his one true dream of writing the great American novel.

Q. Fabius Pictor ( c. 250 BC ) tells that Roman consuls started for the first time 239 years after Rome's foundation.

Fredrika tells Anne of Henrik's secret love, and the two dash off searching for him.

The clumsy boy cannot complete the task, and Anne tells him that she has feelings for him, too.

Freyja lends Loki her falcon cloak to search for it ; but upon returning, Loki tells Freyja that Thrymr has hidden the hammer and demanded to marry her in return.

Indeed, based on their previous experience of the Greeks, the Persians might be excused for this ; Herodotus tells us that the Athenians at Marathon were " first to endure looking at Median dress and men wearing it, for up until then just hearing the name of the Medes caused the Hellenes to panic ".

A Bildungsroman tells about the growing up or coming of age of a sensitive person who is looking for answers and experience.

Jen visits Shu Lien, who tells her that Lo is waiting for her at Wudang Mountain.

It tells the fact-based story of two athletes in the 1924 Olympics: Eric Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian who runs for the glory of God, and Harold Abrahams, an English Jew who runs to overcome prejudice.

The prophet has a vision of the angel Gabriel, who tells him, " Seventy weeks are determined for your people and for your holy city ( i. e., Israel and Jerusalem ).

Saint Augustine of Hippo ( died 430 ) tells of the procedure which obtained in his day for the recognition of a martyr.

The Roman author Vitruvius, relying on the writings ( now lost ) of Greek authors, tells us that the ancient Greeks believed that their Doric order developed from techniques for building in wood in which the earlier smoothed tree trunk was replaced by a stone cylinder.

It tells us that in every instance of a certain relational schema the tuples can be identified by their values for certain attributes.

The Buddhist vinaya also reflects social contracts expected of the monks, one such instance is when the people of a certain town complained about monks felling saka trees, the Buddha tells his monks that they must stop and give way to social norms.

That is language talking about language, for instance the American Psychiatric Association's DSMIV manual tells which terms have to be used in talking about mental health, thereby mediating meanings and dictating practices of the professionals of psychology and psychiatry.

The word also appears in Sumerian texts ; for instance, in the lost book, when Enki tells his master scribe ( Edubsar ) to write down all that he says, the text mentions a stylus of electrum with a crystal at the tip that glowed.

For instance, in the episode " Fix-It McGee ", aired three weeks after Pearl Harbor, Fibber tells Mayor LaTrivia his " great slogan " for the war bond campaign: " Every time you buy a bond, you slap a Jap across the pond.

When Alpha 60 is destroyed, for instance, people stagger down labyrinthine corridors or cling blindly to the walls like the inhabitants of Cocteau's " Zone de la mort ", and, at the end of the film, Caution tells Natasha not to look back.

For instance, the Monday Gospel tells of the Anointing at Bethany (), which occurred before the Palm Sunday event described in.

For instance, in " The Marine Biologist ", he goes into the ocean alone to save a beached whale because his girlfriend thinks he is a marine biologist, and even tells her the truth about his occupation after he saves the day.

In one instance (" The Boyfriend "), George tells the unemployment office he is close to getting a job at " Vandelay Industries ," a latex manufacturer.

As Woody prepares for his date with Anne, he receives hints from his older brother, who is already an expert at dating ; for instance, Woody's brother tells Woody to act like his " natural, talkative self " while on the phone, and says that Woody does not have to bring Anne flowers on her first date.

This tells us that each root of Q has p-adic valuation 1 / n and hence that Q is irreducible over the p-adic field ( since, for instance, no product of any proper subset of the roots has integer valuation ); and a fortiori over the rational number field.

For instance when / dev / null is written to, the kernel tells the program it wrote everything to it ( without actually writing it anywhere ), and when read from, the reading program is told that it has reached the end of the file.

For instance, in the popular nonogram puzzles, also known as paint by numbers or griddlers, the set of squares to be determined represents the dark pixels in a bitmap image, and the input given to the puzzle solver tells him or her how many consecutive blocks of dark pixels to include in each row or column of the image, and how long each of those blocks should be.

But no company tells you that if you do not pay the minimum balance on time the interest rate that they promote more than doubles, for instance Discover's interest rate increases to 18. 99 % after the first minimum balance is not paid on time.

For instance, in Shining Tears a character mentions the Klantol Kingdom ( the setting for Shining Soul II ) and tells its geographic location, but there is no interaction with any of the characters or plot events of Shining Soul II.

The Pali Canon's Ambattha Suttanta, which challenges the caste system, tells of one instance of him appearing as a sign of the Buddha's power.

For instance, the version contained in the Dead Sea Scrolls tells that upon coming down from the mountain, Moses discovered that the Israelites engaging in debaucherous behavior on the shores of a nearby beach.

For instance, the 2009 documentary Cat Ladies tells the stories of four spinsters whose lives have become dedicated to their cats.

For instance, a tale circulating since at least the 1980s tells of a Japanese bride who disappears during her honeymoon in Europe ; years later her husband discovers she has been abducted, mutilated, and forced to work in a freak show.

While the narrator is not omniscient in the sense of knowing what the characters feel ( he hardly talks about the feelings of the characters ), he is omniscient in the sense that he knows what is happening everywhere ; and while it may not be intrusive to the point of telling the reader how to feel, it is certainly intrusive in the way it takes the reader from place to place, the most obvious instance being on page 87 when, after a narrative focusing around Gulchenrouz, the narrator tells us, " But let us return to the Caliph, and her who ruled over his heart ".

For instance, the Power's first vision tells Doyle that " we have a common enemy.

There is one instance where Yerma hears Víctor singing offstage and tells him how well he sings and how it is like a torrent of water fills his mouth.

Thoreau tells his audience that they cannot blame this problem solely on pro-slavery Southern politicians, but must put the blame on those in, for instance, Massachusetts, " who are more interested in commerce and agriculture than they are in humanity, and are not prepared to do justice to the slave and to Mexico, cost what it may ...

For instance, in the first scene, the actress playing Sabina reveals her misgivings to the audience about the play, in the second act she refuses to say lines in the play and tells the spectators things that cause a woman in the audience to run from the theatre sobbing, and, in the third act, the actor playing Mr. Antrobus interrupts to announce that several actors have taken ill, and asks the audience to indulge them while the " stage manager " of the play conducts a rehearsal with the replacements.