Stories

Examples

• I don't tell amusing stories, he said curtly, and walked across to the piano. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• In a little while we hear stories of an Omayyad Caliph, Walid II (743-744), who mocked at the Koran, ate pork, drank wine, and did not pray. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Dates make ladies nervous and stories dry. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Edison has always had an amused admiration for Bergmann, and his social side is often made evident by his love of telling stories about those days of struggle. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I think he must have lived among a lot of people who were very solemn, because I went out riding with him in the Bois de Boulogne and started in to tell him American stories. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• We have opened this chapter with the stories of two countries. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They must tell their stories without any previous consultation with you, if none has yet taken place (another look at the jury). Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I always wished I could have understood Siemens's explanations of the points of those stories. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She knew stories about every one, which she retailed to their friends at the pitch of her voice; and she was always hunting for a husband for Eunice. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• You love stories, and will excuse my telling one of myself. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Speaking of telling stories, I once got telling a man stories at the Harrison lamp factory, in the yard, as he was leaving. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I entirely agree with you, he said; in my opinion those stories are quite unfit to be repeated. Plato. The Republic.
• No, of course not; some fellow showed it to me--but I'd heard the stories before. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Particularly significant are the stories that represent him as discouraging extreme mortification. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She read books, in order that she might tell him stories from them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The stories of violence and vanity in his closing years cluster thick upon his memory. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Some of the stories were told for this volume. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But in that smiling glance she was obliged to include Mary Garth, whom the three girls had got into a corner to make her tell them stories. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He drove his curricle; he drank his claret; he played his rubber; he told his Indian stories, and the Irish widow consoled and flattered him as usual. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The building was in plain sight from the office, and four stories high. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I'm sorry I ever let you hear such stories. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I seem to have heard some queer stories about him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• It gave Mr. Justice Coffin no pleasure to hear Georgy cut into the conversation and spoil his stories. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Miss Wade is a clever lady, who has read heaps of books, and can tell you far better and more interesting stories than I know. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Those stories may have been true or they may have been circulated for political reasons. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was four stories high, with a fire-wall dividing it into two equal parts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Why, Jo, your stories are works of Shakespeare compared to half the rubbish that is published every day. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Little Mr. Perker came out wonderfully, told various comic stories, and sang a serious song which was almost as funny as the anecdotes. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• These stories have to be told because history cannot be understood without them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This last story and many such stories may be lies or distortions or exaggerations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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