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The story has been recounted in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Legend of Good Women, John Gower's Confessio Amantis ( Book VII ), and John Lydgate's Fall of Princes.
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A story, no doubt apocryphal, for Mercer himself denies it, has him sporting a monacle in those Village days.
The trouble with all these doctrinal quarrels is that we hear only one side of the story: what, in the secret councils of the Kremlin, Molotov had really proposed, we just don't know, and he has had no chance to reply.
This covered, wooden bridge is so closely identified with the first action in the early morning of June 3, 1861, and with subsequent troop movements of both armies in the Philippi area that it has become a part and parcel of the war story.
Aging but still precocious, French feline enfant terrible Francoisette Lagoon has succeeded in shocking jaded old Paris again, this time with a sexy ballet scenario called The Lascivious Interlude, the story of a nymphomaniac trip-hammer operator who falls hopelessly in love with a middle-aged steam shovel.
aside from her specifically regional accent, she reveals by the use of the triad, `` irritable, tense, depressed '', a certain pedantic itemization that indicates she has some familiarity with literary or scientific language ( i.e., she must have had at least a high-school education ), and she is telling a story she has mentally rehearsed some time before.
Indeed, a tremendously destructive tsunami that arose in the Arabian Sea in 1945 has even revived the interest of geologists and archaeologists in the Biblical story of the Flood.
`` She says she has to finish a story ''.
In the 355 years since the first Guy Fawkes Night, much of the story has been forgotten, so here is a reminder ''.
For this story of an American couple who meet and fall in love in Israel, Mr. Herman has written songs that are warmly melodious and dance music that sparkles.
Malzahar, a character from League of Legends, has a similar back story and Arabian theme that seems to be a direct reference to Alhazred, not to mention the obvious correlation between the two names.
What interests him, he tells Rieux, is how to become a saint, even though he does not believe in God .</ br > Later in the novel, Tarrou tells Rieux, with whom he has become friends, the story of his life.
She has authored over fifty-six novels and she has a great dislike of people taking and modifying her story characters.
" She first met Poirot in the story Cards on the Table and has been bothering him ever since.
In old versions of the story: " The scene of the murder, when it is specified, is usually the house of Aegisthus, who has not taken up residence in Agamemnon's palace, and it involves an ambush and the deaths of Agamemnon's followers too ".
The story of Ratoncito Pérez has been adapted into further literary works and movies since then, with the character of Alfonso XIII appearing in some.
Lawhead alters the standard Arthurian story somewhat, in that he has Aurelius marry Igraine and become the true father of King Arthur ( Uther does marry his brother's widow, though ).
* Short story, The Passion Considered as an Uphill Bicycle Race ( La Passion considérée comme course de côte ), has been widely circulated and imitated, notably by J. G.
His life has often been referred to as a true " rags to riches " story.
The passage in question has been represented in the modern literature either as claiming that Crantor actually visited Egypt, had conversations with priests, and saw hieroglyphs confirming the story or as claiming that he learned about them from other visitors to Egypt.
Heinz-Günther Nesselrath has argued that these and other details of Silenus ' story are meant as imitation and exaggeration of the Atlantis story, for the purpose of exposing Plato's ideas to ridicule.
He declares at the start: " No matter what sort he is, everyone who has to his credit what are or really seem great achievements, if he cares for truth and goodness, ought to write the story of his own life in his own hand ; but no one should venture on such a splendid undertaking before he is over forty.
The story is set in an imaginary American town that has gone bankrupt.
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All this is simple enough, but in telling the story Porter did two important things that had not been done before.
Finding peaceful coexistence temporarily unsuitable because of domestic politics, Moscow resumed scowling and `` Smilin' Mike '' dropped quietly out of the press except for an occasional story reporting that he had been stoned somewhere in the Middle West.
If she'd kept on as she'd been going, the story I'd told Gladdy would probably have been true by now, anyhow
She claims to have been a member of the Russian aristocracy before the Russian Revolution and suffered greatly as a result, but how much of that story is true is an open question.
Much of the story is told first-hand, since Spalding had been involved in the game, first as a player and later an administrator, since the 1850s.
* Moriarty by Modem, a short story by Jack Nimersheim, describes an alternate history where Babbage's Analytical Engine was indeed completed and had been deemed highly classified by the British government.
Variations of the story include that Dionysus had been insulted by a mortal and swore to slay the next mortal who crossed his path, creating fierce tigers to carry out his wrath.
A story has been preserved by Rufinus ( Hist.
The customer specifies scenarios to test when a user story has been correctly implemented.
* unlikely headlines, such as " SIXTY HORSES WEDGED IN A CHIMNEY ", for which the copy in its entirety was " The story to fit this fantastical headline has not been thought up yet.
Television series executive producer Marti Noxon later reflected that this story might have been produced by the studio in order to frighten Whedon into taking the reins of the project.
Furthermore, he says, the story of the defeat of the ten kingdoms has been deleted and replaced by 19: 9-10.
However, Ruth's and Naomi's story has also occasionally been interpreted as sexual in nature.
The story told in the book of Esther takes place during the rule of Ahasuerus, who has been identified as the fifth-century Persian king Xerxes ( 486-465 ).
Alice Munro has a unique place in Booker Prize history ; The Beggar Maid is the only short story collection to have been shortlisted, doing so in 1980.
The story of Jonah has numerous theological implications, and this has long been recognized.
A story was running at the time that Dr Chai Patel and others had been recommended for Life peerages after lending the Labour party money.
However, this version of the story of the declaration's origins has been described as " fanciful ", a fair assessment considering that discussions between Weizmann and Balfour had begun at least a decade earlier.
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In Metamorphoses, an aging Alcmene recounted the story of the birth of Heracles to Iole.
According to the story recounted by Hermippus, he arrived at the house of Solon and said, " I have traveled here from afar to make you my friend.
One memorable story, as recounted to Johnny Carson, was about his meeting with then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
A story recounted in later sources holds that they refrained from destroying the church on seeing the magi depicted in Persian clothing in a mosaic.
Their story was later recounted in the books Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors and Miracle in the Andes as well as the film Alive, by Frank Marshall, and the documentaries Alive: 20 Years Later ( 1993 ) and Stranded: I've Come from a Plane that Crashed in the Mountains ( 2008 ).
The Arab tribes, of the time, may have begun to exalt Muhammad above Jonah because of the recent revelation Muhammad received, which recounted the story of Jonah's fleeing from his mission.
As recounted in the short story " The Adventurous Exploit of the Cave of Ali Baba ", in December 1927 Wimsey faked his own death, supposedly while hunting big game in Tanganyika, in order to penetrate and break up a particularly dangerous and well-organised criminal gang.
" Bradbury recounted when he came into his own as a writer, the afternoon he wrote a short story about his first encounter with death.
A story is recounted in the Florilegium ( 3. 29. 58 ) of Stobaeus:
* In 1978, Malcolm Clarke recounted Biko's story in a documentary called, The Life and Death of Steve Biko.
According to sculptor Frédéric Bartholdi, who later recounted the story, Laboulaye's comment was not intended as a proposal, but it inspired Bartholdi.
Aragonés has recounted the story with the punchline " I killed Marty Feldman ".
In New York City, local television journalist Gabe Pressman has recounted the story each Christmas for the past thirty years.
The supposed " story " behind Iron Chef is recounted at the beginning of every episode.
In a story recounted by Professor Richard Holmes, just three days before D-Day, during a reception in the London Ritz Hotel, Patton shouted across a crowded reception in the direction of paratroop commander General Jim Gavin, " I'll see you in the Pas De Calais, Gavin!
DiVincenzo claimed to have recounted his story to screenwriter Budd Schulberg during a month-long session of waterfront barroom meetings.
Aragonés has recounted the story with the punchline, " I killed Marty Feldman ".
In the eschatological myth which closes the Republic he tells the story how Er, the son of Armenius, miraculously returned to life on the twelfth day after death and recounted the secrets of the other world.
In an interview republished in October 2004, he recounted to New Internationalist magazine the story of his name:
In it he recounted the story of the experiment from the Varo annotation.
This contains Nican mopohua (" Here it is recounted "), a tract about the Virgin which contains the story of the apparition and the supernatural origin of the image, plus two other sections, Nican motecpana (" Here is an ordered account "), describing fourteen miracles connected with Our Lady of Guadalupe, and Nican tlantica (" Here ends "), an account of the Virgin in New Spain.
The story of their origins and their connection with Tết is often recounted to children while cooking them overnight.
The story of Valentinian and Aëtius was recounted in the pages of Hal Foster's Prince Valiant.
Slaughter recounted his life story for a Works Progress Administration interviewer in 1936.
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