My story yet is to be told, U li a li o la e, Rosa catch’d a shocking cold, U li a li o la e.
And it may be feared that thus the story may partake of the confusion that really reigned over the tangled thread of events.
Something happens as we desire to have it happen to ourselves; some situation, that we have long dallied with in fancy, is realised in the story with enticing and appropriate details.
It is one thing to remark and to dissect, with the most cutting logic, the complications of life, and of the human spirit; it is quite another to give them body and blood in the story of Ajax or of Hamlet.
Nor must we omit the sense of the nature of his country and his country's history gradually growing in the child's mind fromstory and from observation.
I was just well into the story of the Hunchback, I remember, when my clergyman- grandfather (a man we counted pretty stiff) came in behind me.
It is just such a story as a man would make up for himself, walking, in the best health and temper, through just such scenes as it is laid in.
The threads of a story come from time to time together and make a picture in the web; the characters fall from time to time into some attitude to each other or to nature, which stamps the story home like an illustration.
I wish I were allowed to tell a story which would radiantly illuminate the point; but men, like dogs, have an elaborate and mysterious etiquette.
It is thought clever to write a novel with no story at all, or at least with a very dull one.
Oddly enough one can tell this story more simply by telling first about little star-fish and sea-urchins, and what they are made of.
A little more of another, makes the sea minnows which live in it have only one eye, and that right in the middle of their foreheads like the single eye of the giant cyclops that I trust you have all read about long ago in the story of Ulysses.
The same man who wrote the story of Robinson Crusoe, wrote also a story of this great plague, not a pleasant story, naturally, but one that you will want to read later when you are older.
This is Mr. Kipling’s storyof how the elephant got his trunk.
There is a story of a public speaker, who in the midst of his speech stopped, hesitated, went back and said something different.
A few who would make a good storyout of that miserable game of baseball.
The story he had told on the coach, somehow, did not seem quite in place here.
Before him, at the end of a flagged walk, under the heavy boughs of evergreens, was a two-story building of stone, and under the Colonial portico a group curiously watching the new arrival.
He would run away that night, before the story spread over the whole school.
There was always the possibility that the story might be true.
At this Butsey White's lathery face suddenly appeared at the second-story window.
We have the story of a French soldier of peaceable disposition who appeared to experience an ecstasy of delight as he lay concealed in a shell hole and was able to pick off many of the enemy.
The opportunity of the story teller is large, in this work, and we need also to develop to a very high degree of excellence the educational newspaper.
All the power of the strong story of the day's work must be turned upon this educational problem.
Grabo says that the history of democracy here is the story of a dream rather than an accomplishment.
Hoesch-Ernst (32), another German writer, says that patriotism has made history a story of wars.
War is the essence of all the dramatic and heroic story of the world.
The aggressive motive alone, in all probability, would never have made history such a story of battles as it has been.
This work of portrayal of the life of a nation by its story is consciously or unconsciously an appeal to the will; it is given artistic rather than scientific form for this reason.
The past lives most vividly in this theme of war, and the sense of remoteness in time lends an aesthetic coloring to all the story of war, and is in part its fascination.
We must teach the whole story of the social life of our country in such a way as to reveal the motives of classes, parties, sections, and of all organizations, institutions and principles.
War has been, and still is, the great story of the world, the center of all that is dramatic and heroic in life.
Otherwise all education of patriotism will tend toward inevitable jingoism, and arouse all the violent and introverted feelings that have made history a longstory of wars without end.
At Verona, Byron dilates on the amphitheatre, as surpassing anything he had seen even in Greece, and on the faith of the people in the story of Juliet, from whose reputed tomb he sent some pieces of granite to Ada and his nieces.
The romance of the story culminates in the famous Dream, a poem of unequal merit, but containing passages of real pathos, written in the year 1816 at Diodati, as we are told, amid a flood of tears.
The story may be true, but it is none the less unnatural.
Macaulay has popularized the story of the change of literary dynasty which in our island marked the close of the last, and the first two decades of the present, hundred years.
It is Byron who tells the story of Sheridan being found in a gutter in a sadly incapable state; and, on some one asking "Who is this?
On the contrary, there is no story so absurd that they did not invent at my cost.
It is the converse of the story of Gabriel Harvey and the Faery Queene.
Another story survives, of his vindictive spirit giving birth to his first rhymes.
This short period, with the exception of prologue and epilogue, embraced the whole story of his first real love.
Of the last, his form-fellow and most famous of his mates, the story is told of his being unmercifully beaten for offering resistance to his fag master, and Byron rushing up to intercede with an offer to take half the blows.
Lizzy; for she did not feel as if the story she had to tell about the eggs would be one much to her credit, and she was too proud to be willing to tell it.
This story was brought to my mind last Christmas eve.
A translation, with the title "The Story of Thorfinn Carlsemne," based on AM.
He is the source of the story that the captains finally declared they would go on three days longer and not another hour.
He, however, believed the story and that, at certain seasons, men came to them from the island of Carib, distant ten or twelve leagues.
The storyis told in detail in the Historie and by Irving, Columbus, II.
The Story of the Wineland Voyages, commonly called The Story of Eric the Red.
It now remains to take up the story from the time when Karlsefni made his ship ready, and sailed out to sea.
It is the true story of a year’s gardening written by an accomplished man, whose flowers tell him many stories and pleasant things not to be found in the nurseryman’s catalogue.
In after years she told the story of it in a poem, and I venture to extract some stanzas, as they may not be known to all my readers, and as they illustrate my subject rather curiously.
Of course you and I must tell the samestory as to his antecedents.
But, of course, human nature being like story books, he did finally notice his grandson.
After their death the story of the White Hind of the Forest was commanded to be written down in the archives of the state, and thence it has been told in tradition, or sung in poetry, half over the world.
The poor boys, quite terrified, related the storyof the Fairy Coquette; but as the magistrate had never seen a fairy, he did not believe one word of the matter.
Rose, very grateful, supplicated her benefactress to inform the woodcutter's family that she was still alive, knowing what they would suffer should the story reach them of the black Rose having breakfasted the king's hounds.
His memory was at that time very weak, and when a garbled version of the story was presented to him, he had quite forgotten the real description of the character and circumstances of Prince Charles.
The love story in the romance certainly bore a strong resemblance to the connection between himself and George Sand, which, with all its happiness, was, as none better than he knew, a very painful one.
They were the heroes of the hour, with their tales of the Rat Portage, over which no party had come in in recent years, and each of them had to tell to many listeners the story of this or that incident of the long trail.
There was some old marital unhappiness, I suppose, for the girl is evidently born in wedlock, and the story is straight enough.
His cock and bull storyof their recovery is too pellucid.
The key to this woman's behavior is in the story of her sister's shadowed life.
Traveling luggage told the story of a sudden jaunt.
I will take up all the threads of my old society life and Madame Berthe Louison may deign to confide a bit in me the first half of the story forced from her, then I will guess out all the missing links of the chain.
And you shall then hear all the story of the past on my breast.
I know already half the story of this clouded past.
The man whom you plucked has told me the story of your wonderful skill at cards!
They will only get Justine's story if they shadow me, and if I can only hit it off right, at Calcutta.
I will find out the story of the past and tell you all, my darling!
Simpson, the erring one, she believed to be in close attendance upon that foreign heathen, Prince Djiddin, in their second-story wing.
No one seemed to know where Pierre had found her, but later I learned her story from her own lips.
Whilst they walked, the sadness of their hearts found expression on their tongues, and they mournfully rehearsed to each other the story of the crucifixion of their Master.
The story of the life of the Mexican divinity, Quetzalcoatl, closely resembles that of the Savior; so closely, indeed, that we can come to no other conclusion than that Quetzalcoatl and Christ are the same being.
However, as every story which was ever written has at its root the main elements of human nature, it is always possible to make an allegory out of any one of them.
But the elements in the original story entered, as it were of their own accord, into Browning.
Then there is How it strikes a Contemporary--the story of the gossip of a Spanish town about a poor poet, who, because he wanders everywhere about the streets observing all things, is mistaken for a spy of the king.
One night, the story goes, the vigilant proctor actually found young Toombs playing cards with some of his friends.
When Robert Toombs became prominent in Georgia, there is a story that his State university, in order to win back his friendship, conferred upon him an honorary degree.
The Story of Ab: A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man.
Does it not seem strange that the story of a fiery hell, situated beneath the earth, should have such a striking exemplification in fact?
I was trying to make-believe that I didn't want to meddle with your affairs; but I was really vexed that you hadn't told me your story before.
Yes," Clementina assented, when the story came to an end and was beginning over again.
She told him the storyof her own relation to her, and he said, "Yes, I heard something of that from Miss Milray.
He closed it by telling Mark Twain's whistling story so that those who knew it by heart missed the paint; but that might have been because he hurried it, to get himself out of the way of the others following.
Belsky; and he poured out upon Gregory thestory of what he had done.
Through her storycame the sound of Mrs. Lander's voice plaintively reproachful, summoning Clementina to her bedside.
Upon the whole she listened with few interruptions to the story which she exacted.
I told you my story in a moment of despicable weakness--of impulsive folly.
New flame shall go up from the old grey ashes,--the central spark of home shall be rekindled here; and that is the whole story of human life.
The village windows and doorways were crowded with friendly faces, for the story of the two re-united lovers had spread far, and many a kindly good-bye was spoken by people who had never met them.
If he were witty, and knew how to tell the good story of which each one was certain to remind him, all went well, and the fame of that panorama spread far and wide.
When the story was finished, Glen Elting heaved a deep sigh, and said to Winn, "Well, you have had a good time.
But I'll tell you all about it, and you shall tell me your story after we've had breakfast.
They told a straight enough story of how their raft had been stolen near St. Louis, and described it perfectly.
That the reason was finally explained will be made as clear to us as it was to our raft mates before the end of this story of their unique voyage down the great river.
And so the young stranger rattled on with story and joke, never pausing to study the panoramic scenes as they moved slowly along, but giving each the first title that suggested itself, and working in descriptions to fit the titles.
Otherwise he might find out about the Sheriff's skiff, and think I had made up the story to escape arrest as a thief.
Finally, Billy Brackett called the meeting to order, and asked each one to tell his storyin turn, beginning with Cap'n Cod.
The shout of laughter that greeted this story was interrupted by the appearance of Billy Brackett at the door.
Practically, every such enterprise has the same story to tell.
Mulberry Bend, and to the policeman's verdict add the police reporter's story of what has taken place there.
Jacob's story ends here, as far as he is personally concerned.
Now, in closing this account, I am reminded of the story of an old Irishman who died here a couple of years ago.
Where it came from or what was its story I do not know.
The policeman's story rambled among the days when things were different.
When the country was in the throes of the silver campaign, the newspapers told the story of an old laborer who went to the sub-treasury and demanded to see the "boss.
They are handsome and substantial little houses, the lower story of brick, the upper of timber and stucco, each cottage standing in its own garden.
We shall hear the story of these yet, and rejoice that the day of reckoning is coming for the builder without a soul.
Wait, now, another ten years, and let us see what a story there will be to tell.
But from Tompkins Square, nevertheless, came Jacob Beresheim, whose story I shall tell you presently.
But I shall keep that end of the story until I come to speak of the tenants.
This, we need hardly say, was the inimitable Sam Weller, and it was his first introduction to the story with which his name is now inseparable.
The "Spaniards," Hampstead Heath, figures more prominently in the book than any of the foregoing, and has a story of its own to tell.
The story told concerning him is that when an infant he was picked up by a lady in the village of Wick near Bath, carried to her home, adopted and educated.
It was on another occasion later in the story that David Copperfield, then lodging in Buckingham Street close by, encountered poor old Peggotty on the steps of St. Martin's Church.
Osborne's" was a notable house in those days, and if its full records were available, no doubt many an entertaining story concerning its activities could be told.
It is not necessary to re-tell the story of Mr. Pickwick's misadventure here.
For the story of the various adventures which overtook the Pickwickians in the famous city, what they saw, and what they did, the reader must be referred to the official chronicle, except where they are connected with some inn or tavern.
In such an ancient town as Bury St. Edmunds, with so many years behind it, the "Angel" could tell a story worth narrating.
That is the story of the association of the "Leather Bottle," Cobham, with The Pickwick Papers, which has spread its fame to the uttermost parts of the world.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "story" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
