These stories are about a living Terro-Human culture, not a utopia.
You get so confounded many wildstories about Rakkeed.
Now," said Jaffier, "it is the same with half the storiesabout our women.
I smiled as they related stories of his sanctity and learning, and still more as I found different parties, a Turk, a Persian, and an Arab, contending for the honour their country derived from his belonging to it.
Travellers seldom visited them; poets saw them in their dreams, and novelists told stories of them: but these days are now past.
The stories on this subject are of infinite variety, nor will a well practised story-teller give any tale twice in the same words, or with the same incidents.
The taste for poetry and fiction revived, and Persian stories and Arabian tales deluged the land.
Being fond of his fame as a literary man, he devotes some time to the society of the learned, and enjoys hearing poetry and entertaining stories recited.
This man, whose name was Ameen Beg, had heard many stories of the ghools of the 'Valley of the Angel of Death,' and thought it likely he might meet one.
I walked up to the convents, which were long ugly buildings, several stories high, built of wood, and daubed with red and grey paint.
The streets are so narrow that it is difficult to ride a horse through them; and the houses are often six stories high, with galleries crossing above from house to house.
A separate chapter, not the least entertaining in the book, is devoted to anecdotes of the Nepaulese mission, of whom, and of their visit to Europe, many remarkable stories are told.
His present collection of comic stories and laughable traits is a budget of fun full of rich specimens of American humour.
One of the best authenticated stories of the fifth Duke relates to his habit of riding alone in a carriage specially constructed to secure privacy.
These stories involve a tissue of inconsistencies.
Russell, who is well known in the county for his efforts on behalf of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, told two interesting stories of her Grace in her presence at the opening of the bazaar.
We had contrabandista songs, stories of robbers, guerrilla exploits, and Moorish legends.
The marvellous stories hinted at by Mateo, in the early part of our ramble about the Tower of the Seven Floors, set me as usual upon my goblin researches.
These stories made an unusual impression on the mind of the honest Peregil, and they sank deeper and deeper into his thoughts as he returned alone down the darkling avenues.
It was only by telling some stories of the kind myself I at last got him to open his budget.
Her great merit is a gift for story-telling, having, I verily believe, as many stories at her command as the inexhaustible Scheherezade of the Thousand and One Nights.
Illustration] I have remarked that the stories of treasure buried by the Moors, so popular throughout Spain, are most current among the poorest people.
I knew it to be the rush of water through subterranean channels, but it sounded strangely in the night, and reminded me of the dismal stories to which it had given rise.
Whether true or false, these stories have brought a bad name on my house, and not a tenant will remain in it.
These particulars have been augmented by inquiries among some of the old inhabitants of the place, particularly the father of Mateo Ximenes, of whose traditional stories the worthy I am about to introduce to the reader was a favourite hero.
Some of their stories turned upon the wonders of the very mountain upon which they were seated, which is a famous hobgoblin region.
Captain Carson knows his subject thoroughly, and his stories are as pleasing as they are healthful and instructive.
Price per volume, 50 cents, net [Illustration] Splendid stories for the little girls and boys, told by one who is a past master in the art of entertaining young people.
All who love the experiences and adventures of our American boys, fighting for the freedom of democracy in the world, will be delighted with these vivid and true-to-life stories of the camp and field in the great war.
How two young girls donned the khaki and made good in the Motor Corps, an organization for women developed by the Great War, forms a series of stories of signal novelty and vivid interest and action.
Jere Clemens, of Alabama, had commenced a series of strong, if somewhat convulsive, stories of western character.
The very tongues that had wagged most impatiently at the first delay--that had set in motion the wild stories by which to account for it--had been the first to become blatant that the North was conquered.
But in Richmond none of this was felt; for all that was known of the army was its victorious entry into Pennsylvania; and absurdly exaggerated stories of the dire panic and demoralization of the enemy received perfect credence.
They regarded him as a bloodthirsty martinet, and listened too credulously to all silly stories of his weakness and severity that were current, in the army and out.
Newspaper correspondents wrote strange stories of the length to which that dignified body allowed him to carry his prerogative.
Her stories of Virginia home-life had little pretension to the higher flights of romance; but they were pure, graphic and not unnatural scenes from every-day life.
It was his corps of which such wild and ridiculous stories of bowie-knife prowess were told at the Bull Run fight.
The editors of the North seemed to have gone military mad; and when they did not dictate plans of battles, lecture their government and bully its generals, they told wondrous stories of an army that Xerxes might have gaped to see.
The stories were old to her, except as she found a new listener to them, and they had never had any vital interest for her.
Stories were told of her dirt and shiftlessness, of the hens which roosted in her kitchen.
Delicious are hisstories of the little town, especially about the pranks that give expression to boyish impulses to incommode teachers, stern neighbors, and maiden aunts.
And Lohmann recounted the stories she had told so often, how as a tiny girl she had taken milk and cheese to town with her mother, very early in the gray morning light.
In these stories the historical personages, which with artistic discretion are kept in the background, constitute after all only a decorative element; in the foreground happy youthfulness disports itself in its irresponsibility.
These were the most successful novels of those years; Strauss' Death the Comforter is, next to the conclusion of Buddenbrooks, the poetically most significant of these stories of childhood.
A banker who writes stories is a curiosity, isn't he?
Compared with English and American literature, German literature has been said to be poor instories of childhood.
First because they were Carinthians (where you don't always have to marry right away), and then because Florie had always been away all winter, so that nothing but woeful legend and delightful little stories about him were current.
One of these two stories is the Clarissa Mirabel here translated, and no word need be said of the technical virtuosity with which the most exquisite climax is attained through the utmost economy of means.
The sentimental stories of the heart are followed by works of keen intuition, in which with compelling suggestiveness strange human communities are comprehended and presented in the characteristic atmosphere of their milieu.
He boastfully forced his stories upon people, and lost respect all the more.
To this capacity his short stories entitled The Last Days of Rococo (1909) bear eloquent testimony, conjuring up as they do with charming winsomeness the spirit of the epoch that preceded the French Revolution.
I am building a great book, which, besides the three stories already exposed to the public eye, will have three stories more before we reach the roof and battelments.
But the grown-ups were enjoying themselves far too much to think of leaving so soon, so I gathered the infants around me and told them all the wonderful stories which had been locked away in the dusty cabinets of my memory.
If I encourage her she will tell me interesting stories of her youth and married life, or repeat the gossip of the village; for none is better versed than she in all the doings of the countryside.
And I dare say kind friends will tell you stories of actresses and other diversions, but I who know him tell you, you have won the best and greatest darling in London.
I am in a wee room four stories up, by the three angels.
At last we spoke of Robert, and she told me stories of his boyhood, amusing Eton scrapes, and later feats.
But while in the "Decamerone" the framework in its relation to the stories is of little or no significance, in the "Canterbury Tales" it forms one of the most valuable organic elements in the whole work.
If this means that Chaucer owed to the "Decamerone" the idea of including a number of stories in the framework of a single narrative, it implies too much.
Possibly other stories had been already added to these, and the "Prologue" written--but this is more than can be asserted with safety.
That they liked the stories which had been told them, could be gathered from nothing that they said or did.
I have endeavoured to tell these stories as I thought a genuine Indian would tell them, using only their figures, types, and similitudes, and rejecting all inappropriate phrases, and those which savoured of a foreign origin.
After this Mr. Melville contributed several short stories to Putnam's Monthly and Harper's Magazine.
A new series of instructive copyright stories for boys of High School Age.
But the rest clustered at one end of the sleeper, and eagerly reviewed the stories they would have to tell.
While they could not indulge in any of their songs, according to the regulations that had been put in force by the patrol leader, this did not prevent the boys from enjoying sundry good laughs when comical stories were told.
All these stories of the heathen Gods prove as conclusively as any scientific problem can be demonstrated by figures, that the same stories related of Jesus Christ have no other foundation than that of heathen tradition.
Marvelous stories are told of the birth of the Divine Redeemer.
As these stories of the ascension of Christ, according to Lardner, were written many years after his crucifixion.
And yet we find the orthodox churches printing every year, through their tract societies, stories of death-bed repentance in tract form, and scattering them over the country by the million.
Stories are found in the bible of each which would be rejected if found elsewhere.
And hence it is that all ancient sacred history is so profusely inlaid with stories and statements manifestly fabricated for the occasion, without any historical support, and therefore wholly incredible.
They showed me, in self-justification, letters from their relations in Melbourne, speaking of the notorious Harry Alison as a huge bearded ruffian, and telling horrid stories of his excesses in no measured terms.
So he suppressed his passion, aware that resistance would bring out stories that could not bear the light.
His stories of adventures with the robbers of the sea are rife in my memory.
To prevent the precepts of morality from tiring the ear and the mind, it was necessary to make the stories in which they are introduced in some measure dramatic; to keep alive hope and fear and curiosity, by some degree of intricacy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stories" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
