In those days poems often told a story in verse and those boys had some corkers to tell ; ;

But at the coroner's inquest Delphine told a forthright story.

He was simply writing a story that wanted to be told, and in the writing a childhood fantasy of his own emerged.

The Hetman told me to take the story over the phone and to write it.

The complexities of Venetian politics eluded him, but the story of the revolution itself is told in restrained measures, with no superfluous passages and only an occasional overemphasis of the part played by its leading figure.

After almost everyone had gone he told me the simple story of how one of his neighbors had moved a fence a few feet over on his land.

Right now, however, he was still too worried about Jerry Burton, and the gun that had no bullets, and the story Burton had told him, to care too much about Tony Calenda.

The story of a quarter of a century of Soviet-Western relations is vitally important, and it is told with the fire of a first-rate historical narrator.

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

But his mother told the story over and over, till her `` Martin said he was sorry '' was as much a part of her as the shape of her thin, pallid ears.

The story is told in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes.

Using what became one of van Vogt's recurring themes, it told the story of a 9-year-old superman living in a world in which his kind are slain by Homo sapiens.

Looking back on this period ( in 1926 ) Milne observed that when he told his agent that he was going to write a detective story, he was told that what the country wanted from a " Punch humorist " was a humorous story ; when two years later he said he was writing nursery rhymes, his agent and publisher were convinced he should write another detective story ; and after another two years he was being told that writing a detective story would be in the worst of taste given the demand for children's books.

This story is told through the character Rieux.

Clifford, who prided himself on decades of meticulously ethical conduct, summed his predicament up when he sadly told a reporter from The New York Times, " I have a choice of either seeming stupid or venal.

Clifford is regarded as being one of the shrewdest practitioners of his trade, and in July 2005 he told reporters that he would not represent Michael Jackson after he was found innocent of child abuse charges, saying: " It would be the hardest job in PR after Saddam Hussein ".

Neil Putnam, a former corrupt police detective turned whistleblower, told a BBC investigation that Clifford Norris was paying Mr Davidson to obstruct the case and to protect the suspects.

" Soon Clifford and Robert Kennedy showed up at ABC and told executives that the Kennedys would sue unless the network issued a full retraction and apology.

Muldanno had previously told Clifford that the he buried the body in concrete in Clifford's detached garage, under a boat, while Clifford was on vacation, skiing in Colorado.

Shortly after joining GCHQ in September 1973, after studying Mathematics at Cambridge University, Clifford Cocks was told of Ellis ' proof and that no one had been able to figure out a way to implement it.

Most of the information regarding de Hory's early life comes from what he told American writer Clifford Irving, himself a fraudster, who wrote the first biography about him.

Since Elmyr's success was reliant upon his skills of deception and invention, it would be difficult to take the facts that he told about his own life at face value, as Clifford Irving himself admitted.

Drummer Max Roach, who co-led the band with Richie and Brownie ( Clifford Brown ), told Ben Sidran in the book Talking Jazz, " When Clifford and Richie were taken away from us in that awful accident, that unfortunate accident that happened, the group still traveled.

Her first volume of collected verse and prose, This, That and the Other ( 1854 ), was followed by a story, Juno Clifford ( 1855 ), and by My Third Book ( 1859 ); her literary output was then interrupted until 1873 when she resumed activity with Bed-time Stories, the first of a series of volumes, including Firelight Stories ( 1883 ) and Stories told at Twilight ( 1890 ).

The tale was composed by Irving while he was living in England, and was based on popular tales told by colonial Dutch settlers of New York's Hudson River valley.

Irving asked Kempner if the " official record of the Nuremberg was falsified ", and told him that he was planning to go to Washington, D. C. to compare the sound recordings of Field-Marshal Milch's March 1946 evidence with the subsequently published texts to find proof that evidence given at Nuremberg was " tampered with and manipulated ".

Irving told the Oxford Mail of having " links at a low level " with the British National Front.

In a June 1992 interview with the Daily Telegraph, Irving claimed to have heard from Hitler's naval adjutant that the Führer had told him that he could not marry because Germany was " his bride ".

During his appeal in 1992, Irving called upon those present in the Munich courtroom to " fight a battle for the German people and put an end to the blood lie of the Holocaust which has been told against this country for fifty years ".

On 17 January 1991 Irving told a reporter from the Jewish Chronicle that " The Jews are very foolish not to abandon the gas chamber theory while they still have time ".

Discussing the Oxford Union's invitation to BNP leader Nick Griffin and Holocaust denier David Irving, he told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: " As a former president of the National Union of Students, I'm ashamed that this has happened.

Irving countered that Hughes had simply not told them about the book.

She also widely performed her one woman show in which she told anecdotes about the many great men in American musical theatre history whom she had personally known, notably George Gershwin who had proposed marriage ( according to an interview in American Heritage magazine ), Irving Berlin, Kurt Weill, Oscar Hammerstein, Alan Jay Lerner, and Frederick Loewe, interspersed with a few of the songs that made each of them famous.

" Mr. Irving is said to have told Mrs. Bateman that he was resolved to have actors to act with him, and not dolls, otherwise he would no longer play at the Lyceum.

`` Gyp Carmer couldn't have known about Colcord's money unless he was told -- and who else would have told him ''??

The Grafin, who was charmed by her, told her, `` Your sister who was here two years ago has quite dark hair.

Lithe and muscular, he had well-molded features, and his light color told of the European ancestors who had been intimate with the slave women of his family.

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

He must construct transitions so that a dancer who is told to lie prone one second and to leap wildly the next will have some physical preparation for the leap.

So all-important are ideas, we are told, that persons successful in business and happy in social life usually fall into two classes: those who invent new ideas of their own, and those who borrow, beg, or steal from others.

His neighbors celebrated his return, even if it was only temporary, and Morgan was especially gratified by the quaint expression of an elderly friend, Isaac Lane, who told him, `` A man that has so often left all that is dear to him, as thou hast, to serve thy country, must create a sympathetic feeling in every patriotic heart ''.

I have known some men and women who said that the selves they are told about or even remember seem utter strangers to them now ; ;

A Lebanese Moslem told about its existence and application in the Islamic tradition as the `` divine law '', while a C.A.I.P. member who has been working in close association with delegates of the new U.N. nations told of its widespread recognition on the African continent.

She was told by the manservant who opened the door that his lordship was engaged on work from which he had left strict orders he was not to be disturbed.

Those children who can chin themselves should be told to do one chin-up each time they pass under it.

Those who responded with an arm-elevation in the naive state did not change their reaction when told that there were some normal people who did not react in this fashion.

While they were told that there were some normal people who reacted differently than they had, they were also informed that there were other normals who reacted as they had.

These suggested interpretations were given by the subjects spontaneously when they were told that there were people who reacted differently than they had.

When Richard's parents told him they wanted to take him to an orthodontist -- a dentist who specializes in realigning teeth and jaws -- their young son was interested.

William, who did not write to Gorham, told Giffen that unless he could operate the plantation as usual for a year, he would sue `` amicably '' to protect his interests.

The prevailing view in the industry was summed up in 1912 by a group of auto makers who told a Senate committee: `` The exceedingly unsatisfactory and uselessly expensive conditions, including delays surrounding legal disputes, particularly in patent litigation, are items of industrial burden which must be written large in figures of many millions of dollars of industrial waste ''.

After reading his statement discharging the 23d ward case, Karns told Wexler that if the seven cases scheduled for trial also involved persons who had been subpenaed, he would dismiss them.

Mr. Reama, who retired as vice president of the American Screw Co. in 1955 said, `` Both parties in the last election told us that we need a five per cent growth in the gross national product -- but neither told us how to achieve it ''.