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 ''.

The music becomes ethereal as he calls up a vision of her own sainthood: it is she, he tells her, who can bring the truth to Russia and convert the heretics.

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 ''.

Here, in the most eagerly awaited novel of the season ( his first since The Catcher In The Rye, ) he tells of a college girl in flight from the life around her and the tart but sympathetic help she gets from her 25-year-old brother.

Bishop Asser tells the story of how as a child Alfred won a prize of a volume of poetry in English, offered by his mother to the first of her children able to memorise it.

Callimachus tells how Artemis spent her girlhood seeking out the things that she would need to be a huntress, how she obtained her bow and arrows from the isle of Lipara, where Hephaestus and the Cyclops worked.

Callimachus then tells how Artemis visited Pan, the god of the forest, who gave her seven bitches and six dogs.

Fredrika tells her grandmother that she has watched carefully, but still has not seen the night smile.

The scheming Comptroller Schub, tells her that he has a plan to save her administration, and the town, promising “ It's highly unethical .” He tells her to meet him at the rock on the edge of town.

Schub tells her that since Hapgood never said who is normal or not, they can arrest anyone at random until the quota is filled.

Fay tells the townspeople about the fake miracle, but the town refuses to believe her.

" To appease her, he tells her to wait (" that's what virgins do best, isn't it?

Nora tells Christine of her predicament.

Christine tells Krogstad that she only married her husband because she had no other means to support her sick mother and young siblings, and that she has returned to offer him her love again.

The New York Herald Tribune's photographer, Ira Rosenberg, tells an anecdote about the time he wanted to take a picture of Carl playing a guitar.

It is only fairly recently, however, that linguists have developed a systematic way of charting voices on paper in a way that tells even more about the speakers and about the success or failure of human communication between two people.

A woman named Lisa who tells nobody anything about herself.

Nor, when we recollect how sensitive were the emotions of the old Puritan stock in regard to the recent tides of immigration, should we be astonished that their thin lips were compressed into a white line of rage as Parker snarled at them thus: `` Talk about the Catholics voting as the bishop tells!!

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.

Aeneas tells Dido about the fall of Troy, by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin.

For Hume, we assume that experience tells us something about the world because of habit or custom, which human nature forces us to take seriously.

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.

In his last surviving letter from 14 October 1791, Mozart tells his wife that he collected Salieri and Caterina Cavalieri in his carriage and drove them both to the opera ; about Salieri's attendance at his opera The Magic Flute, speaking enthusiastically: " He heard and saw with all his attention, and from the overture to the last choir there was not a piece that didn't elicit a ' Bravo!

According to this view, Beowulf can largely be seen to be the product of antiquarian interests and that it tells readers more about " an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon ’ s notions about Denmark, and its pre-history, than it does about the age of Bede and a 7th-or 8th-century Anglo-Saxon ’ s notions about his ancestors ’ homeland.

The story of the Ark that follows tells of Israel's oppression by the Philistines, which brings about Samuel's anointing of Saul as Israel's first king.

There is uncertainty about her intentions when she tells Job to curse God but it is clear that Job honors her by the way he talks about her in Chapter 31.

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

Aristotle tells a story of Aesop in conflict with a ferryman and relating to him a myth about Charybdis.

After Maria tells Carla Connor, Carla is furious and tries to get Maria to go to the police, however Maria wants to forget all about it and tells Carla to continue doing business with Frank to save the factory.

An early published notice on him, dating from 1604 and describing his lifestyle three years previously, tells how " after a fortnight's work he will swagger about for a month or two with a sword at his side and a servant following him, from one ball-court to the next, ever ready to engage in a fight or an argument, so that it is most awkward to get along with him.

It tells about the heat absorbed or emitted in the isothermal segment of a Carnot cycle.

Torment tells the story of Chainer, a Dementia Summoner of the Cabal, who first discovers the Mirari and rises through the ranks of the Cabal, eventually becoming rival to the himself.

He tells of three men who started out on a trip across a single paddock, a ten-by-ten-mile square owned by a sheep grazer.

In his book The Physician ( 1988 ) Noah Gordon tells the story of a young English medical apprentice who disguises himself as a Jew to learn from Avicenna, the great master of his time.

The Sultan is in the company of five other deposed European monarchs, and he tells Candide, who initially doubts his credentials:

A popular legend, originating from 12th century chronicles, tells how when he first fled to the Somerset Levels, Alfred was given shelter by a peasant woman who, unaware of his identity, left him to watch some cakes she had left cooking on the fire.

Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play.

The book tells the story of Paul Bäumer, a soldier who — urged on by his school teacher — joins the German army shortly after the start of World War I. Bäumer arrives at the Western Front with his friends and schoolmates ( Tjaden, Müller, Kropp and a number of other characters ).

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.

He tells Cora that he is expecting a new assistant who might help them.

Nora tells Torvald that she is leaving him to live alone so she can find out who she is and what she believes and decide what to do with her life.

He came from a Christian family, despite accounts to the contrary, as in his writings he tells more than once of an aunt who taught him some principles of the Christian faith, and a father who did the same, as well as mentioning ( once ) his mother doing the same.

Odin rides to Hel and awakens a seeress, who tells him Höðr will kill Baldr but Vali will avenge him ( stanzas 9, 11 ).

It tells the story of a Jewish girl named Esther who became queen of Persia and thwarted a plan to commit genocide against her people.

The book of Job tells the story of an extremely righteous man named Job, who was very prosperous and had seven sons and three daughters.

It tells the story of a Hebrew prophet named Jonah ben Amittai who is sent by God to prophesy the destruction of Nineveh but tries to escape the divine mission.

The picture book " The Dream Eater " by Christian Garrison tells the story of a young boy, Yukio, who meets a baku and brings it to his village.

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 ).