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story and voyage
This is the story of his last tragic voyage, as nearly as we are able -- or ever, probably, will be able -- to determine:
These story lines include Dariat's struggles inside Valisk, and the Deadnights ' voyage to their ' Saviour '.
It depicts the eighth and final voyage of Sinbad the Sailor, along with the various mysteries Sinbad and his crew encounter ; the anomalies are then described as footnotes to the story.
One of the earliest mentions of the coconut also dates back to the One Thousand and One Nights story of Sinbad the Sailor, he is known to have bought and sold coconuts during his fifth voyage.
Reports from his second voyage were jealously guarded by the Russian administration, preventing Bering's story from being retold in full for at least a century after his death.
On the voyage back to England, he remembers everything ; he tells his story and then jumps ship.
The film tells the story of the crew aboard an English cargo ship named the SS Glencairn, during World War II, on the long voyage home from the West Indies to Baltimore and then to England.
While it may not be possible to positively ascertain which is the original or " more correct " story, Harold Courlander writes, at least in Oraibi ( the oldest of the Hopi villages ), little children are often told the story of the sipapu, and the story of an ocean voyage is related to them when they are older.
Later that year, after hearing the story, Emperor Junna ordered Ono no Takamura to build a shrine to commemorate Urashimako's strange voyage, and to house the Tamatebako and the spirit of Urashimako.
Sinbad enlists his loyal men from the previous voyage, but they are not enough and the story of the Cyclops has spread through Bagdad, so he also has to recruit inmates from the Caliph's prison.
According to a story which seems to have originated with Menippus of Gadara, Diogenes was captured by pirates while on voyage to Aegina and sold as a slave in Crete to a Corinthian named Xeniades.
Denis Diderot's book Supplément au voyage de Bougainville retells the story of Bougainville's landing on Tahiti, narrated by an anonymous reader to one of his friends ; this fictional approach to Bougainville's expedition, along with Diderot's description of the Tahitians as noble savages, was meant to criticise Western ways of living and thinking.
It depicts the 8th and final voyage of Sinbad the Sailor, along with the various mysteries Sinbad and his crew encounter ; the anomalies are then described as footnotes to the story.
During the Canaries expedition, to beguile the tedium of his voyage, he composed his prose tale of Rosalynde, Euphues Golden Legacie, which, printed in 1590, afterwards furnished the story of Shakespeare's As You Like It.
* Distant worlds ; the story of a voyage to the planets by Friedrich Wilhelm Mader, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons 1931
The story, then ( in imitation of the classical epics ) portrays the gods of Greece watching over the voyage of Vasco da Gama.
Amistad is a 1997 historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg based on the true story of an uprising in 1839 by newly captured African slaves that took place aboard the ship La Amistad off the coast of Cuba, the subsequent voyage to the Northeastern United States, and the legal battle that followed their capture by a United States revenue cutter.
He recounts the story of his life and his 227-day journey on a lifeboat when his boat sinks in the middle of the Pacific Ocean during a voyage to Winnipeg.
Intertwined with the Sinclair voyage story is the claim that Henry Sinclair was a Knight Templar and that the voyage either was sponsored by or conducted on the behalf of the Templars, though the order was suppressed almost half a century before Henry's lifetime.
His fourth, last, and least successful musical was 1491, which told the story of Columbus's attempts to finance his famous voyage.
The author of the original story, Gerhart Hauptmann, had been impressed by Unthan during a cross-Atlantic voyage and was inspired to write the character of Arthur Stoss, an armless virtuoso, based upon him.

story and her
It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.
Into the texture of this tapestry of history and human drama Henrietta, as every artist delights to do, wove strands of her own intuitive insights into human nature and -- especially in the remarkable story of the attraction and conflict between two so disparate and fervent characters as this pair -- into the relations of men and women: `` In their relations, she was the giver and he the receiver, nay the demander.
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.
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.
Immediately thereafter, the patient fractures her rehearsed story, veering into an oversoft, breathy, sloppily articulated, `` I don't feel like talking right now ''.
The woman in the house where the niece was staying backed up his story and said she left when he did to shop for her dinner.
`` That story of hers about an unsigned note directing her to be there tonight sounds completely phony.
I make this observation about the lady, Miss Judy Garland, because she brought up the subject herself in telling a story about a British female reporter who flattered her terribly in London recently and then wrote in the paper the next day:
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.
Martin guessed that Dolores would not be so eager to tell the next installment of her story.
She has authored over fifty-six novels and she has a great dislike of people taking and modifying her story characters.
* In one version of the story of the birth of Achilles, Thetis anoints the infant with ambrosia and passes the child through the fire to make him immortal but Peleus, appalled, stops her, leaving only his heel unimmortalised ( Argonautica 4. 869-879 ).
Bishop Asser tells the story of how as a child Alfred won a prize of a volume of poetry in English, offered by his mother to the first of her children able to memorise it.
The 1981 film Clash of the Titans retells the story of Perseus, Andromeda, and Cassiopeia, but makes a few changes ( notably Cassiopeia boasts that her daughter is more beautiful than Thetis as opposed to the Nereids as a group ).
The story is told that one of the Abencerrages, having fallen in love with a lady of the royal family, was caught in the act of climbing up to her window.
Early in her career at the paper, she wrote a controversial story in which she examined the failings of the popular chef Emeril Lagasse.
In Jacob M. Appel's short story, " The Grand Concourse " ( 2007 ), a woman who grew up in the iconic Lewis Morris Building returns to the Morrisania neighborhood with her adult daughter.
Flowers at first denied that she had an affair with Clinton, but later changed her story.
Vie privée ( 1962 ), directed by Louis Malle has more than an element of her life story in it.
The wife of Scoop Beal, the editor of the Humboldt Standard, which later combined with the Humboldt Times, in which Genzoli's story had appeared, has stated that her husband was in on the hoax with Wallace.

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