In fact Pegasus is a late addition to the story of Perseus, who flew on his own with the sandals loaned him by Hermes.

The story of Saint Clement and Saint Christopher relates that while fleeing from persecution, the men packed their sandals with wool to prevent blisters.

The fifth story, My Apology, is Allen's tale of a recurring fantasy / dream of his where he imagines himself in the sandals of Socrates during the philosopher's final days in prison.

No sand was found on the bodies or clothing ( including socks and sandals ) of either child, making the morning playground story unlikely.

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.

The rocking, I realized, is the single element in the story that carries the erotic message, the unspoken and unconscious undercurrent that would mar the innocence of a child's fantasy and disturb the effects of the work if it were made explicit.

I am sure that none of the effects of this story were consciously employed by Lawrence to describe an oedipal fantasy in childhood.

But the Garibaldi volumes were more than a romantic story.

If I could call in, they could check the story while we were on our way.

There were thousands of Republican speakers who focused first on the party platform, and second on Lincoln's life story, emphasizing his childhood poverty.

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.

Thus we have the story of his riding across a stick ( horse made of stick ) with his children and upon being discovered by a friend desiring that he not mention till he himself were the father of children ; and because of the affection of his son Archidamus ' for Cleonymus, he saved Sphodrias, Cleonymus ' father, from execution for his incursion into the Piraeus, and dishonorable retreat, in 378 BC.

Sophocles and Euripides ( and in more modern times, Corneille ) made the story the subject of tragedies, and its incidents were represented in numerous ancient works of art.

In the biography, Paul Allen wrote, regarding a suggestion in Cosmopolitan that his plays were becoming autobiographical: " If we take that to mean that his plays tell his own life story, he still hasn't started.

A tall tale is a story with unbelievable elements, related as if it were true and factual.

The story goes that the Fairies of Doon Hill were angry with the Rev.

The gods were afraid of them, except for Artemis who captured a fine deer ( or in another version of the story, she changed herself into a doe ) and jumped out between them.

The Old Testament story of Judith illustrates how a woman frees the Israelites by tricking and assassinating Holofernes, a warlord of the rival Assyrians, with whom the Israelites were at war.

According to Capp, who loved to relate the story, Kelly's two perfectly logical reasons for doing so were: a. to cement diplomatic relations between Argentina and the United States, and b. " Because you can't play the piano, anyway!

A 1950 cover story in Time even included photos of two of his employees, whose roles in the production were detailed by Capp.

It is impossible to make a blanket generalization about how the blind were treated in literature beyond that point – they were marvelous, gifted, evil, malicious, ignorant, wise, helpless, innocent, or burdensome depending upon who wrote the story – except to say that blindness is perceived to be such a loss that it leaves an indelible mark on a person ’ s character.

According to this view, the story of Jacob's visit to Laban to obtain a wife originated as a metaphor for this migration, with the property and family which were gained from Laban representing the gains of the Joseph tribes by the time they returned from Egypt ; according to textual scholars, the Jahwist version of the Laban narrative only mentions the Joseph tribes, and Rachel, and does not mention the other tribal matriarchs whatsoever.

She had run out of things to say to Noel and so she told him a story about " four little rabbits whose names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter.

Banshees were said to appear for particular Irish families, though which families made it onto this list varied depending on who was telling the story.

The next few years, continuing this story in a fairy-tale manner, were hard and poverty stricken, but cramful of useful experience.

As ideas were accepted and discarded, a narrative structure would emerge, frequently requiring Chaplin to reshoot an already-completed scene that might have otherwise contradicted the story.

Sometimes, the inner story serves as an outlet for discarded ideas that the author deemed to be of too much merit to leave out completely, something that is somewhat analogous to the inclusion of deleted scenes with DVD releases of films.

" In light of this, Jones " discarded it and sat down with Brian's drawings and sifted through them and found the ones that I really liked, and started creating the story from them.

In the story a donkey, a dog, a cat, and a rooster, all past their prime years in life and usefulness on their respective farms, were soon to be discarded or mistreated by their masters.

* The main character of Tolstoy's short story " Father Sergius " is a Russian nobleman who turns to a solitary religious life and becomes a hermit after he learns that his fiancee was a discarded mistress of the czar.

Almost everything in the original script was discarded except for Lo Pan ’ s story.

When he got his own scoop on the invasion he telegraphed the story back in Latin for secrecy, but they discarded it.

A story states that it has even been used as ballast in trading ships and that some enterprising Northumbrian pipe makers used old discarded Blackwood ballast to great effect.

* Maggie Shiu as Consort Po Ling-kau ( Second story arc ), the Emperor's discarded but later favorite concubine.

Often, some venues such as entertainment news programs like Entertainment Tonight will misuse the term ' lost episode ' or ' lost tapes ' in order to bring more attention to a feature story on something such as an older series or film, or an actor in their early years, using archive footage from their library, as if the footage was discarded after its first use.

This story corroborated confidential testimony given by a male witness in 1957, which alleged the body was placed in a box previously discarded at the scene.

Transformers: Armada was written and produced in Japan, with creative input from America ( the Japanese originally envisioned the series as set in the G1 continuity, but this idea was discarded by Hasbro, who also mandated the inclusion of Unicron, who had not been in the original story treatment for the series ).

After just one story, the blazer was discarded and the hat was relegated to a hat-and coat-stand in the background.

As the public believed the travellers site would cause more damage to the village, the council called some of the 3, 000 residents opposing the idea " racists " and discarded their complaints, a story that made both the local and national press.

Then he would get to his feet, as though rising in honor of his own remarkable powers, and say almost invariably, `` Gentlemen, this is an amazing story!!

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.

This combination of story improvisation and relentless perfectionism — which resulted in days of effort and thousands of feet of film being wasted, all at enormous expense — often proved very taxing for Chaplin, who in frustration would often lash out at his actors and crew, keep them waiting idly for hours or, in extreme cases, shutting down production altogether.

Those who sail up along the coast of Norway to trade or to fish, all tell the remarkable story of how a serpent of fearsome size, 200 feet long and 20 feet wide, resides in rifts and caves outside Bergen.

it is understood that the center is with the person being spoken of, and thus, " to the left " refers not to the speaker ’ s left, but to the object of the story ’ s left, that is, the person referred to as ' he ' at the time immediately before he ran twenty feet.

In Dante's story, the Simoniacs are placed head-first in holes, flames burning on the soles of their feet ( Canto XIX ).

The attribution gave rise to an apocryphal story in which Charles II, who was over six feet tall, complained about the low ceilings.

Montgomery County's first courthouse was ordered on June 28, 1823, to be made " of good hewed logs ... to be twenty-six feet long ; two stories high, lower story nine feet from floor to joist ; upper to be seven feet to roof ".

Due to being sons of the north wind they were supernaturally gifted in different ways ( depending on changes in the story from being passed down through generations and cultures ) either being as fast as the wind or able to fly, having wings either on their feet or backs, depending on the myth.

He furnished the limestone for the freight house, and for a two story depot that was 28 x 66 feet and later enlarged to 28 x 105 feet.

The largest building was a two story structure built by Charles Roadnight, which was fifty by one hundred feet ; the first floor was used for stores and the second as a meeting toom.

The story goes that ' Pierre ' built a shack some 400 feet south of the village of Culvertown and began to sell whisky there.

He furnished the limestone for the freight house, and for a two story depot that was 28 x 66 feet and later enlarged to 28 x 105 feet.

* Freefall: From 41, 000 feet to zero-a true story, William and Marilyn Hoffer, Simon & Schuster, 1989 ISBN 978-0-671-69689-4

Multiple theories attempt to explain the origin of foot binding, from the desire to emulate the naturally tiny feet of a favored concubine of a prince, to a story of an empress who had club-like feet, which became viewed as a desirable fashion.

All attempts to get him on his feet failed, and his plight became a major international news story.

In one story he shows knowledge of how to construct a Growth Ray that makes someone 100 feet tall.

In the story of Ishtar's Descent to earth, acting as Ereshkigal's ' messenger ', Namtar curses Ishtar with 60 diseases, naming five of the head, feet, side, eyes, and heart, after she arrives to earth.