I do not understand much about it," continued the pacha, turning round to Mustapha, "but how can we expect a good story from an unbelieving dog of a Christian?
She put on no editorial airs, and if you brought her a good story, she made you feel that you had conferred a favor on her, and her magazine.
It is a good story, but would have been better, if I had not received so many instructions from the editors of the Christian Herald.
By the way," remarked President Lincoln one day to Colonel Cannon, a close personal friend, "I can tell you a good story about my hair.
Now this reminds me of a good story I heard once, when I lived in Illinois.
A good story is told of how Mrs. Lincoln made a little surprise for her husband.
He was in truth "a cheerful liar"; but he lied like the writer of fiction who disregards the exact facts because he is telling a good story as well as he can and because that good story is based on real life.
He had something of Pope's gift for well-rounded utterances on life, something of Scott's ability to tell a good story well, and withal his own benevolent serenity.
The first is that it is a good story, which will long be read for its own sake, and as such it needs no comment, for it is familiar to everyone.
Don't you think I know a good story when I see it?
I said there was a good story here, entitled 'Author!
Hang it, Shorely, you wouldn't know a good storyif you met it coming up Fleet Street!
Scott loved to tell a good story, but he loved the story better than he did the telling of it; Stevenson, on the other hand, was fully as much absorbed by the manner of narration as by the narration itself.
It is true that Mr. De Morgan has told a good story in each of his novels; but it is also true that the story is not the cause of their reputation.
Stevenson pleases us all; for he always has a good story, and the subtlety of his art gives to his narrative imperishable beauty.
When Rothenstein and I and Coquelin become famous, that will make a good story.
Pretty good pay for three weeks' work, and it is a good story.
The women watching the prize fight will make a good story and so will the arms of the red mill, "The Moulin Rouge" they keep turning and turning and grinding out health and virtue and souls.
It was simply because he knew the old story was always a good story, that is, if it was seen with new eyes and from a new standpoint.
Either it is not a good story, or he has no temperament for art.
It is not a fancy or a mere pretty theory that a good story, taught as a structure, becomes a norm, a model, a clue to the child in the preservation of his own material, and in the arrangement of it economically and effectively.
Of the same brilliant conversationalist Mr. Grantley Berkeley has recorded a good story in 'My Life and Recollections.
In his 'Life and Death of Sir Matthew Hale,' Bishop Burnet tells a good story of the Chief's conduct with regard to a customary gift.
A good story is told of certain visits paid to William Murray's chambers at No.
Murder Madness," by Murray Leinster, was a good story, but it didn't belong in a Science Fiction magazine.
I saw you smiled when I spoke about the possibility of my being too dull to write a good story.
He may be a good story-teller, yet a shallow thinker and a slip-shod writer.
Like Scott, when he had a good story he liked to dress it up with a cocked hat and a sword.
Indeed, timeliness is so important in a story that one prominent writer[3] on journalism deems it an essential of a good story.
The fault with this correspondent was that he did not know a good story.
Many such celebrities will stand for any kind of interview, so that the reporter need only determine in advance what he would have them say to make a good story.
He has a big head, and he isna handsome, but he looks like he could mak' up a good story.
Folks that won't go and hear a sermon will maybe read a good story.
And it is not unlikely that a good story-teller may turn out to be a good story-writer.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good story" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
