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.

He hadn't told anyone, but he, too, had applied to five colleges for David.

Ambrose told Theodosius to imitate David in his repentance as he had imitated him in guilt — Ambrose readmitted the emperor to the Eucharist only after several months of penance.

Chaplin's childhood was fraught with poverty and hardship, prompting biographer David Robinson to describe his eventual trajectory as " the most dramatic of all the rags to riches stories ever told.

Film critic David Thomson has stated: " Marker told me himself that Mongolia is correct.

David told Saul he was prepared to face Goliath alone, and Saul allowed him to make the attempt.

Saul inquired about the name of the young champion, and David told him that he was the son of Jesse.

Adams told Morris that he had been framed, and that David Harris, who was present at the time of the murder and was the principal witness for the prosecution, had in fact killed Wood.

The implications of these findings for the conservation of giraffes were summarised by David Brown, lead author of the study, who told BBC News: " Lumping all giraffes into one species obscures the reality that some kinds of giraffe are on the brink.

So George just told David he would not work any longer if the script was not better and he wanted the Howard script back ... he would not let his name go out over a lousy picture ... And bull-headed David said ' OK get out!

Connick, Jr. also hopes David Haden doesn't cheat on Olivia Benson, he told TV Guide magazine, " I don't want to get caught cheating.

" Goddamn doctor ," Bogart later told David Niven, " instead of stitching it up, he screwed it up.

When the people pressured Saul into going against a command conveyed to him by Samuel, God told Samuel to appoint David in his stead.

Once King David was established, he told the prophet Nathan that he would like to build a permanent temple, and as a reward for his actions, God promised David that he would allow his son, Solomon, to build the first permanent temple and the throne would never depart from his children.

In an interview with the Los Angeles Times on July 18, 2009, Paula's manager David Sonenberg told the newspaper that, " Very sadly, it does not appear that she ’ s going to be back on ‘ Idol ’.

On 10 November 2010, Crowe told David Letterman that he had been smoking more than 60 cigarettes a day for 36 years of his life, and that he had fallen off the wagon the previous night and smoked heavily.

A similar story is told, for example, in Jewish sources about King David, and in Persian folklore about the Mongolian warlord Tamerlane and an ant.

David Wirtschafter, the president of the William Morris Agency ( which represented Gellar ), subsequently told The New Yorker that the success of The Grudge " takes our client Sarah Michelle Gellar, who now is nothing at all, and … makes her a star, potentially.

An Amalekite then claimed to have killed Saul, and the Amalekite told David.

In a vision, David's wish was granted and told that from then on, people who lived in the land of Dewi Sant ( Saint David ) " would be forewarned by the dim light of mysterious tapers when and where the death might be expected.

Actor David Walliams reportedly entered talks with Gilliam to play a part in it, and was told that he'd have to " be willing to work with Johnny Depp and fly to Bucharest where the movie is to be filmed.

In an interview for a retrospective television special, David McCallum described a visit to the White House during which a Secret Service agent told him, " You're the reason I got this job.

Ambrose told Theodosius to imitate David in his repentance as he had imitated him in guilt — Ambrose readmitted the emperor to the Eucharist only after several months of penance.

The account of the battle between David and Goliath is told in 1 Samuel, chapter 17.

They include The Face That Must Die ( cut by the publisher on its first release in 1979 and issued complete in 1983 ), the story of a homophobic serial killer told largely from the killer's point of view.

Wright's sister Angela told Dillon that her brother's decision to join the UVF had in fact had nothing to do with the Miami Showband killings and Dillon then concluded that Wright had encouraged this version of events as he felt linking his won UVF membership to the activities of his heroes Boyle and Sommerville added an origin myth to his own life as a loyalist killer.

The story is told in the first person by Patrick Bateman, a serial killer and Manhattan businessman.

She found a dead body in the prison ground and David Bridges revealed himself as the killer and told Lizzie she would " be set free "...

Siegel told Robinson that he cast him in the role of the Scorpio killer because he wanted someone " with a face like a choirboy.

Darlie told police that she believed the killer escaped through the garage.

The killer's " trail of blood " led into the garage and stopped at the window that Routier told police the killer escaped through.

According to Cook, Thompson later told some of his acquaintances that the killer had not been McManus, but his " bag-man ", Hyman Biller, who fled to Cuba shortly afterwards.

" Jarmusch has told interviewers that he developed the title character with Whitaker in mind ; the New York Times review of the film observed that " t's hard to think of another actor who could play a cold-blooded killer with such warmth and humanity.

Days later, El Vocero newspaper reported of a murder related to the fight: apparently, a man had made a bet with another man, and after Rosario lost, the murder victim told his killer that he really didn't have any money, causing the killer to get enraged and shoot him.

Written by Manuel Chaves Nogales and published in 1937, it was called Juan Belmonte, matador de toros: su vida y sus hazañas ( Juan Belmonte, killer of bulls: his life and deeds ) and consisted of his story as told to Nogales.

A story told from the perspective of Gotham's newest serial killer, a slaughterhouse employee who covets the aging and decaying process.

During his trial, Moore told the jury the crimes were committed by a homosexual lover he nicknamed " Jason " after the killer in the Friday the 13th horror films.

He told his story so convincingly that an arrest warrant was sworn out against the " killer " for a " murder " that existed only in the imagination of Gaston B.

Diarmait is told by Bec mac Dé that Áed Dub, Diarmait's foster-son, will be his killer.

However, when Marlowe goes to meet Jones, Canino, a hired killer, attempts to find Agnes himself and then poisons Jones after being told of her location ( which turns out to be false ).

The play is told mainly in flashback with the killer telling of how he carried out his mission.

In his second book, Catch and Kill Your Own, Smith implies ignorance, but told writer John Dale he knows who committed her murder and would release the information once the killer is dead.

Cohen followed-up It's Alive with the science fiction-serial killer film God Told Me To ( 1976 ), in which a New York detective investigates a spate of killings by apparently random people who say that God told them to commit the crimes.

After some deep thinking, and talking with Willow about it, she decides to tell Giles what happened, only to discover that Faith has already told him that Buffy was the killer.

Tellis and Oak are told that the case has been closed, as the deceased suspect is quickly and conveniently determined to be Calvess's killer.

For example, you may be told " The killer is an atheist " and " Mr Somebody is a regular church-goer "-so Mr Somebody would be innocent.

His father was a serial killer who had killed six young girls, and when his mother told the police, his father murdered her, and was subsequently killed by the police after refusing to give himself up.