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.

Maitland told Knox to refrain from stirring up emotions over Mary's insistence on having mass celebrated and he quoted from Martin Luther and John Calvin about obedience to earthly rulers.

Critical responses were enthusiastic: The New York Times described it as " a stirring and beautiful account of a deeply felt experience " while The New York Herald Tribune called it " a tale of heroic adventure told without rancor or rhetoric.

His denunciation of the royal dynasty of Israel, and his emphatic insistence on the worship of Yahweh and Yahweh alone, illustrated by the contest between Yahweh and Baal on Mount Carmel, as told in 1 Kings 18, form the keynote to a period which culminated in the accession of Jehu, an event in which Elijah's chosen disciple Elisha was the leading figure.

The Book of Ezra consists of ten chapters: chapters 1-6, covering the period from the Decree of Cyrus to the dedication of the Second Temple, are told in the third person ; chapters 7-10, dealing with the mission of Ezra, are told largely in the first person.

During the Exile many Jews were taken to Babylon, where the prophets told them to make their homes (), suggesting they would spend a long period of time there.

The adventures of this period are told in the two books The Silent World ( 1953, by Cousteau and Dumas ) and Plongées sans câble ( 1954, by Philippe Tailliez ).

Similarly, the most popular Arthurian tale throughout this period seems to have been that of Tom Thumb, which was told first through chapbooks and later through the political plays of Henry Fielding ; although the action is clearly set in Arthurian Britain, the treatment is humorous and Arthur appears as a primarily comedic version of his romance character.

Prior to this period she performed under her middle name, Ellen, but permanently adopted Tori after a friend's boyfriend told her it suited her.

The Skeptical School of early Chinese history, started by Gu Jiegang in the 1920s, was the first group of scholars within China to seriously question the traditional story of its early history: " the later the time, the longer the legendary period of earlier history ... early Chinese history is a tale told and retold for generations, during which new elements were added to the front end ".

The stories of the early Lycians were told by Greek authors of the classical period.

During the 6th century BCE, Greek geographer Scylax told of a city " between the bay and the Promontory of Zeus " ( i. e., the Carmel ) which may be a reference to Haifa during the Persian period.

He has to undergo several tests and endure rather a long period of waiting until he is finally told by a specialist that his problem is harmless and that he is not going to die.

By way of explaining Brian's variable input, Carl Wilson told Musician magazine in 1981 that his brother had become seriously addicted to cocaine during this period.

Chamberlain eventually rejected the possibility of standing in Sheffield again, and when George Dixon to retired from his Birmingham seat in May 1876, Chamberlain was returned unopposed ( 17 June 1876 ) for the Birmingham constituency, after a period of anxiety following his nomination in which he denounced the Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, accusing him of being ' a man who never told the truth except by accident.

Of the additional century granted by Cruttwell and others of his point of view to Silver Latin but not by Teuffel the latter says " The second century was a happy period for the Roman State, the happiest indeed during the whole Empire … But in the world of letters the lassitude and enervation, which told of Rome's decline, became unmistakeable … its forte is in imitation.

The story is told in three main arcs, with almost all of it occurring during a 24-month period beginning and ending at Thanksgiving parties hosted by Hannah ( Mia Farrow ) and her husband, Elliot ( Michael Caine ).

At a later period she told the Duke of Cumberland, son of George II and commander-in-chief in Scotland, that she acted from charity and would have helped him also if he had been defeated and in distress.

According to the Kremlin's aide Sergei Yastrzhembsky, " when they were told that the withdrawal of troops was unrealistic within the short period, that it was a very long process, the terrorists put forward the demand to withdraw Russian troops from anywhere in the Republic of Chechnya without specifying which area it was ".

He was diagnosed with acute respiratory failure and was told by doctors to rest and not work for a period of at least six months.

He then took a house in Pentonville, where his eldest son, John Stuart Mill, was born in 1806. He had three big novel on the British history on ruling India. In which he told ancient period of India as Hindu and medieval period as Muslim and modern as British period.

Cuse told USA Today, " We're not approaching this show as if we were doing a period piece.

An history of the Albigensian war told by a contemporary.

Homer Wells grows up in an orphanage where he spends his childhood " being of use " as a medical assistant to the director, Dr. Wilbur Larch, whose history is told in flashbacks: After a traumatic misadventure with a prostitute as a young man, Wilbur turns his back on sex and love, choosing instead to help women with unwanted pregnancies give birth and then keeping the babies in an orphanage.

It told the forgotten history of the first working-class political left in the world in the late-18th and early-19th centuries.

Until Easter 2010 the site had a visitor centre inside which the Connected Earth gallery told the history of satellite communications.

Although the recruits had signed on as part of a scientific expedition and expected to spend their three month assignment collecting botanical and biological samples, once out to sea they were told, " Your names will go down in history " and that the islands would become " famous air bases in a route that will connect Australia with California ".

Herstory is history written from a feminist perspective, emphasizing the role of women, or told from a woman's point of view.

It is a neologism coined in the late 1960s as part of a feminist critique of conventional historiography, and refers to history ( reinterpreted as " his story ") written from a feminist perspective, emphasizing the role of women, or told from a woman's point of view.

If Judge Landis was suspicious of an attorney's line of questioning, he would begin to wrinkle his nose, and once told a witness, " Now let's stop fooling around and tell exactly what did happen, without reciting your life's history.

The person from Porlock later became a word to describe interrupted genius, and the literary critic Walter Jackson Bate recounted that while John Livingston Lowes taught the poem, he told his students " If there is any man in the history of literature who should be hanged, drawn, and quartered, it is the man on business from Porlock.

However, the story of Macbeth as told by Shakespeare bears little relation to real events in Scottish history, as the historical Macbeth was an admired and able monarch.

However, an oral history has been told and preserved.

Not much is known about Tonga before European contact because of the lack of a writing system during prehistoric times other than the oral history told to the early European explorers.

Her history is told in the first person through several letters to friends detailing her life as a courtesan.

The history of Anjou may be told partly with the aid of the chroniclers of the neighbouring provinces, especially those of Normandy ( William of Poitiers, William of Jumièges, Ordericus Vitalis ) and of Maine ( especially Actus pontificum cenomannis in urbe degentium ).

In a lost passage of his Annals, a Roman history in verse, Ennius told how he had seen Homer in a dream, who had assured him that the same soul which had animated both the poets had once belonged to a peacock.

He told Frodo the full history of the Ring, and urged him to take the Ring to Rivendell ; for he would be in grave danger if he stayed in the Shire.

The history of this writing manual is told in Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk & White ’ s The Elements of Style ( 2009 ), by Mark Garvey.

The history of the Canning Stock Route has been well documented from the colonial perspective – accounts of European explorers, drovers, prospectors and law enforcers – but increasingly the Aboriginal history of the track is also being recognised, and Aboriginal people are keen to have their story told: We wanna tell you fellas ' bout things been happening in the past that hasn't been recorded, what old people had in their head.

The white man history has been told and it's today in the book.

The history of Cyrus and of the retreat of the Greeks is told by Xenophon in his Anabasis.