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

But at the coroner's inquest Delphine told a forthright story.

He was simply writing a story that wanted to be told, and in the writing a childhood fantasy of his own emerged.

The Hetman told me to take the story over the phone and to write it.

The complexities of Venetian politics eluded him, but the story of the revolution itself is told in restrained measures, with no superfluous passages and only an occasional overemphasis of the part played by its leading figure.

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.

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.

The story of a quarter of a century of Soviet-Western relations is vitally important, and it is told with the fire of a first-rate historical narrator.

If she'd kept on as she'd been going, the story I'd told Gladdy would probably have been true by now, anyhow

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.

The story is told in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes.

Using what became one of van Vogt's recurring themes, it told the story of a 9-year-old superman living in a world in which his kind are slain by Homo sapiens.

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.

This story is told through the character Rieux.

It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.

Even on the fictional level, however, the contradictions which give rise to the mystery story are not fully resolved.

In the American `` hardboiled '' detective story of the '20s and '30s, the spirit of the mad genius from Baker Street lives on.

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

The story ends in the child's illness and delirium brought on by the feverish compulsion to ride his horse to win for his mother.

But on one occasion when I encountered a similar fantasy in a little boy who was my patient I began to understand the uncanny effects of this story.

And when the child dies in Lawrence's story in a delirium that is somehow brought on by his mania to win and to make his mother rich, the manifest absurdity of such a disease and such a death does not enter into our thoughts at all.

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.

The story opens on the eve of his fifty-third birthday, as he prepares for the two weeks of festivities that are to follow.

There is a humorous but revealing story about a rancher who owned a large slice of Texas and who wanted to have on it everything that was necessary for a completely pleasant community.

But because it was a suspense gangster story of the Capone era, many of us felt that it might catch on for a run in Chicago, continue as a road company, and eventually become a movie.

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

If you're really serious about working on that story, I'd better take you home ''.

`` When you pile your `` guy '' on the bonfire tomorrow night, I wonder how much of the true story of Guy Fawkes you will remember??

As Origen interprets the end of history on the basis of its beginning, so Irenaeus portrays the story of Adam on the basis of the story of Christ.

All this near tragedy, which to us borders on comedy, enables us to tell the story over and over again, always warming ourselves with a glow of complacency.

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

`` I heard a story once about a rookie who got excited when the captain stepped outside and he couldn't get an encephalographic reading on him.

In the seventh century BC, Hesiod, both in his Theogony ( briefly, without naming Pandora outright, line 570 ) and in Works and Days, gives the earliest literary version of the Pandora story ; however, there is an older mention of jars or urns containing blessings and evils bestowed upon mankind in Homer's Iliad:

In Fables and Reflections, the seventh volume of Neil Gaiman's comic series The Sandman, the maenads feature in the story Orpheus, in which they gruesomely murder the titular character after he refuses to cavort with them ( echoing the events of the actual Greek myth of Orpheus ).

The story of Pyramus and Thisbe appears in Giovanni Boccaccio's On Famous Women as biography number twelve ( sometimes thirteen ) and in his Decameron, in the fifth story on the seventh day, where a desperate housewife falls in love with her neighbor, and communicates with him through a crack in the wall, attracting his attention by dropping pieces of stone and straw through the crack.

This story fills the greater part of the seventh book of Virgil's Aeneid.

The current project is being run on the moon, and the book tells the story of the seventh attempt in a series of experiments to create an artificial consciousness.

For example, the Shabbath is said to testify to the story that Hashem created the world in six days and rested on the seventh day and declared it holy.

" Interpreter of Maladies sold 600, 000 copies and received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ( only the seventh time a story collection had won the award ).

Although stuffed to the gills with ex-Doctor Who guest stars, only one of them was actually playing the same character: the story was built around Caroline John's Dr Elizabeth Shaw, the Doctor's companion in the seventh season of Doctor Who, now depicted as an investigator for PROBE ( the " Preternatural Research Bureau ").

The second season was initially as episodic as the first but later featured an extended story arc that began with the season's seventh episode, Nullzilla.

In 2006 a Finnish metal band Amorphis released its seventh studio album Eclipse, which tells the story of Kullervo according to a play by Paavo Haavikko.

Baikuntha Mallik was Jatayu's Bengali teacher at Ethenium Institution when he was in the seventh grade. Lalmohan babu often describes him as a great poet who did not get the adulation he desrved. There is no presence of him in the story but in some stories we can see Jatayu reciting his poems.

The seventh episode, produced during 1982, of the Soviet science fiction TV series This Fantastic World was based on one of the finest science fiction stories by Porges, " The Priceless Possession " and Oleg Lukyanov's story " Uncertainty Principle ".

The sole member from the original lineup to return for the sixth and seventh seasons was Tucker ( Daniel DeSanto ), although Ross Hull returned for the concluding miniseries, which notably broke from the show's established format by blurring the line between story and reality.

The short story " Wash ", which was later incorporated into the seventh chapter of Absalom, Absalom !, focuses on the death of Thomas Sutpen.

Adapting 21 of the stories into a series of episodes, each 42 minutes long, The Crab with the Golden Claws was the seventh story to be produced into the series, with the story spanning two episodes.

At the end of the seventh novel, it is revealed that he is trapped in a repetitive reincarnation, his " damnation " for his crimes and killings ( similar to Stephen King's short story " That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French ", in which he expresses that his idea of hell is repetition.

The story begins on the twelfth day of the seventh moon in the Year of the Serpent 3, 339 ( AD 650 ).

In a poll of 17 detective story writers and reviewers, this novel was voted as the seventh best locked room mystery of all time.

The Secret of the Unicorn was the seventh such story to be adapted, being directed by Ray Goossens and written by Michel Greg, himself a well known comic book writer and illustrator who in later years would become editor-in-chief of the Journal De Tintin.

After a month of rest ( the equivalent of the seventh day of the Creation story ), the waters recede for 150 days / five months as the world is " re-created ": in the sixth month Noah waits, and in the seventh he and the animals exit the ark and give thanks to God.

Conan Doyle later ranked the story seventh in a list of his twelve favourite Sherlock Holmes stories.

While the series was declared finished with the publication of the seventh volume in 2004, in an interview in March 2009, King stated, describing an idea for a new short story he recently had: " And then I thought, ' Well, why don't I find three more like this and do a book that would be almost like modern fairy tales?