Next, inside this first flashback, the Lady of the title narrates another story, presented in flashback form, but with cutaways inside it back to events occurring in the time frame in which she is doing her narrating.

Heart of Darkness is a novella, written by Joseph Conrad, that is presented in the form of a frame narrative ( a story within a story ).

In such stories, when the sudden turn comes, we get a piercing glimpse of joy, and heart's desire, that for a moment passes outside the frame, rends indeed the very web of story, and lets a gleam come through.

In two stories (" The Musgrave Ritual " and " The Gloria Scott "), Holmes tells Watson the main story from his memories, while Watson becomes the narrator of the frame story.

Both of these books are composed of individual short stories ( which range from farce or humorous anecdotes to well-crafted literary fictions ) set within a larger narrative story ( a frame story ), although the frame-tale device was not adopted by all writers.

The above story invites the reply that the sheriff would not frame the innocent because of the rule ‘ do not punish an innocent person ’.

Decades of poor maintenance, the construction of a fourth story attic during the Coolidge administration, and the addition of a second-floor balcony over the south portico for Harry Truman took a great toll on the brick and sandstone structure built around a timber frame.

* Kaleidoscope Century by John Barnes ( frame story )

As such, it is similar in structure to Bradbury's short story collection, The Illustrated Man, which also uses a thin frame story to link various unrelated short stories.

In particular, many tales were originally folk stories from the Caliphate era, while others, especially the frame story, are most probably drawn from the Pahlavi Persian work Hazār Afsān (, lit.

What is common throughout all the editions of the Nights is the initial frame story of the ruler Shahryār ( from, meaning " king " or " sovereign ") and his wife Scheherazade ( from, possibly meaning " of noble lineage ") and the framing device incorporated throughout the tales themselves.

The main frame story concerns a Persian king and his new bride.

Al-Nadim then writes about the Persian Hazār Afsān, explaining the frame story it employs: a bloodthirsty king kills off a succession of wives after their wedding night ; finally one concubine had the intelligence to save herself by telling him a story every evening, leaving each tale unfinished until the next night so that the king would delay her execution.

Apart from the Scheherazade frame story, several other tales have Persian origins, although it is unclear how they entered the collection.

He attributes a pre-Islamic Sassanian Persian origin to the collection and refers to the frame story of Scheherazade telling stories over a thousand nights to save her life.

An early example of the frame story, or framing device, is employed in the One Thousand and One Nights, in which the character Scheherazade narrates a set of tales ( most often fairy tales ) to the Sultan Shahriyar over many nights.

The concept of the frame story dates back to ancient Sanskrit literature, and was introduced into Persian and Arabic literature through the Panchatantra.

In the Panchatantra, stories are introduced as didactic analogies, with the frame story referring to these stories with variants of the phrase " If you're not careful, that which happened to the louse and the flea will happen to you.

Furthermore, the story does not explain how Veranzio could have managed to get the wooden frame out of the tower and into a horizontal position with himself underneath without the device tilting and collapsing.

It was described as a two story, stately looking frame building of colonial design.

The Forum is published quarterly and focuses on several topics per issue, working to frame and lead public policy debate.

The spectator is left with a feeling that is aptly expressed in the final frame of the film, when the camera focuses on a street sign that reads: STOP — DEAD END.

Relational frame theory focuses on how humans learn language through interactions with the environment and is based on a philosophical approach referred to as functional contextualism.

Layne Redmond ’ s unusual path focuses on the hand-held frame drum, the world ’ s oldest known drum.

Within the fixed frame of these aspirations, they can afford to place a high value on the expressive and people-oriented aspects of occupation and to minimize the instrumental-reward values of power, prestige, and wealth.

Her quarters were on the right as you walked into the building, and her small front room was clogged with heavy furniture -- a big, round, oak dining table and chairs, a buffet, with a row of unclaimed letters inserted between the mirror and its frame.

He's crazy about water skiing and swimming and this vigorous exercise in conjunction with the added food supplements packed pounds of solid muscle on his skinny frame.

The interlocking frame we built at the model railroader workshop and then installed on Paul Larson's railroad follows the Fig. 1 scheme and is shown beginning in Fig. 7, page 65, and in the photos.

Scribe a line across the bar on the other end of the tappet, 1/4'' '' plus half the diameter of the 2-56 screw head ( about 5/64'' '' ) away from the frame edge.

As the work progresses the frame and moving parts become a sort of Chinese puzzle where several pieces must be removed before the part you are working on is accessible.

Draw-file the edges, square up the ends and put a slight chamfer on the edges so they will not snag in the frame.

For added strength, I also fastened a small block on each side of every frame and batten joint.

Finish your plumbing before you frame it in ( most economical framing is a thin non-bearing partition on either side of the pipes ).

Each frame comes between the light and the lens and is individually projected on the screen, at the rate, for silent movies, of 16 frames per second, and, for sound films, 24 frames per second.

The impression has nevertheless been given during these three days, despite Mr. Rusk's personal popularity, that the United States delegation came to Oslo in a somewhat tentative and exploratory frame of mind, more ready to listen and learn than to enunciate firm policy on a global scale with detailed application to individual danger spots.

More and more, these days, she'd been driving that pretty little mare that looked like her, over to Tillie's and Nick's -- his own old square frame box on posts, chickens and cats and pups under the house, everybody friendly inside, making a to-do over the babies dressed like dollies.

Today, abaci are often constructed as a bamboo frame with beads sliding on wires, but originally they were beans or stones moved in grooves in sand or on tablets of wood, stone, or metal.

For each picture frame, the 6502 writes graphics commands for the DVG into a defined area of RAM ( the vector RAM ), and then asks the DVG to draw the corresponding vector image on the screen.

Each frame of a television image is composed of lines drawn on the screen.

The maximum frame rate depends on the bandwidth of the electronics and the transmission system, and the number of horizontal scan lines in the image.

A 1500 byte ( 12000-bit ) full-size Ethernet frame takes only 1. 2 µs to transmit on a 10 Gbit / s network, reducing the need for small cells to reduce jitter due to contention.

A tabernacle frame on a wall serves similar hieratic functions as a free-standing, three-dimensional architectural baldaquin or a ciborium over an altar.

In contrast, stellar aberration is independent of the distance of a celestial object from the observer, and depends only on the observer's instantaneous transverse velocity in certain frame of reference, at the moment of observation.

In wireless networks, a beacon is a type of frame which is sent by the access point ( or wifi router ), to indicate that is on.

It featured a tubular steel frame on which were mounted wire-spoked wheels with solid rubber tires.

While some women's bicycles continue to use this frame style, there is also a variation, the mixte, which splits the top tube laterally into two thinner top tubes that bypass the seat tube on each side and connect to the rear fork ends.

The bar had two steel coil springs placed on it and the bogie frame rested on the springs.