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

He took the story of the pound of flesh and had to fasten it on someone.

I had read the story many times without asking myself why it affected me or caring why it did.

and in her forthright way, Henrietta, who in her story of Sara had indicated her own unwillingness `` to think of men as the privileged '' and `` women as submissive and yielding '', felt obliged to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris Jastrow took the slightest exception -- he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair, as well as on the radical reforms of Dr. Wise of Hebrew Union College -- until once, in sheer desperation, he wrote that he had given up hope they would ever agree on anything.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

The Hetman had a strong liking for a story, any story which was to be had by means of much sleuthing or by roundabout methods.

Trevelyan was at least in part attracted to the period by an almost unconscious desire to take up the story where Macaulay's History Of England had broken off.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

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.

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.

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.

A few years ago, not too long before his death, Phillips revealed in a newspaper story that he had always suspected Morse of the murders.

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.

He remembered a story he had read as a youth.

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.

To Rickards, a 52-year-old veteran 30 years in the air, it was an old story: His plane was being hijacked in mid-flight again much as it had happened in 1930, when Peruvian rebels made him land a Ford tri-motor at Arequipa.

Hendricks' story was designed for children and he had a small audience of small children right on stage with him.

Van Vogt's first published SF story, " Black Destroyer " ( Astounding Science Fiction, July 1939 ), was inspired by Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.

Scholars dispute whether and how much Plato's story or account was inspired by older traditions.

The poem was inspired by the apocryphal story that a young Jesus, accompanied by his uncle Joseph of Arimathea, a tin merchant, travelled to the area that is now England and visited Glastonbury during Jesus ' lost years.

Holly's life story inspired a Hollywood biographical film, The Buddy Holly Story ( 1978 ).

Raphael Holinshed also included her story in his Chronicles ( 1577 ), based on Tacitus and Dio, and inspired Shakespeare's younger contemporaries Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher to write a play, Bonduca, in 1610.

If he felt out of ideas on what to do with the story, he would often take a break from the shoot that could last for days, while keeping the studio ready for when he felt inspired again.

* Briton Rites first album, For Mircalla was inspired by the short story.

The album tells the story of a man's life and misadventures in a Steampunk inspired universe.

Since King Valdemar II of Denmark was married to the Portuguese princess, Berengária of Portugal, it is not unthinkable that the origin of the story, if not the flag, was the Spanish tale or a similar tale, which again might have been inspired by an even older legend.

* A short story from 1993, " The Great Lover ", is inspired by the World War I War Poets.

The album ’ s title song was inspired by Jack Kerouac ’ s book, The Lonesome Traveller in which Kerouac tells the story of America ’ s “ homeless brothers ,” or hobos.

No one claimed him, so a carnival took his body, mummified it, and toured all over the South with him, calling him the “ The Famous Mummy Man .” McLean ’ s song inspired radio station WGN in Chicago to tell the story and give the song airplay in order to raise money for a headstone for Anderson McCrew ’ s grave.

The last story is probably the most famous, having inspired at least eight movie adaptations ( two of which are now considered to be lost ), one animated movie, two documentaries and a video game.

It has inspired writers from Goethe and Dickens to Joyce and Murdoch, and has been described as " the world's most filmed story after Cinderella ".

Pei's tunnel through a mountain leading to the Miho Museum was partly inspired by a story from fourth-century Chinese poet Tao Yuanming.

The film The Big Blue, directed by Luc Besson in 1988, was inspired by his life story ( and the life story of the Italian diver Enzo Maiorca ); Mayol was one of the screenwriters.

The Katzenjammer Kids was inspired by Max and Moritz, a children's story of the 1860s by German author Wilhelm Busch.

Their story was considered " the epitome of virtuous romantic friendship " and inspired poetry by Anna Seward and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

This incident appears to have inspired his locked room story, " The Suicide of Kiaros ", first published in the literary journal, The White Elephant.

Some of Baum's contacts with suffragists of his day seem to have inspired much of his second Oz story, The Marvelous Land of Oz.

The story inspired Rudolph Dirks to create The Katzenjammer Kids.

The Vision of America500 Birthday Extravaganza 2008-12 was inspired to explore humanity's spirit of ingenuity by celebrating a community story to open local windows to worldwide origins.

* 1820 – An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex ( a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts ) 2, 000 miles from the western coast of South America ( Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story ).

The alchemist's ( and Coelho's ) source was very probably Hesketh Pearson's The Life of Oscar Wilde ( 1946 ) in which this story is recorded ( Penguin edition, p. 217 ) as one of Wilde's inspired inventions.