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Sentences starting with stories

Stories were whispered of how differently the two Empresses behaved in these difficult circumstances. [2]
Stories of Slade's hanging men, and of innumerable assaults, shootings, stabbings and beatings, in which he was a principal actor, form part of the legends of the stage line. [5]

Sentences ending with stories

Big Tom sat with us before the fire and told bear stories. [4]
This double window was in the upper part of the Council chamber, which occupied two stories. [10]
It was commonly understood in the town of Rockland that Dudley Venner had had a great deal of trouble with that daughter of his, so handsome, yet so peculiar, about whom there were so many strange stories. [6]
I have not tried to keep my own personality out of these stories. [6]
Our Scheherezade is to write no more stories. [6]
The truth is they both had lots of odd ways,--family traits, I suppose, but were just different enough from each other to figure separately in two different stories. [6]
Ephraim sat in their midst, and for once he was not telling war stories. [9]
Mr. Cooke and the Four vanished, and from the uproarious laughter which arose from the cabin transoms I judged they were telling stories. [9]
Y' 're too suspicious, Miss Badlam; y' 're too easy to believe stories. [6]
I need not recur to these wonderful stories. [6]

Short sentences using stories

But these are old stories. [3]
Ain't you telling me stories? [6]
Many stories had gone about. [11]

Sentences containing stories two or more times

And at night we would gather at the fire around our new emigrants to listen to the stories they had to tell,--familiar stories to all of us. [9]
He likes funny stories, same as you--damn, nice, funny little stories, eh? [11]
There were funny stories, and grim stories of vengeance which William Wetherell heard and trembled at. [9]
Our stories have some weight, not like the stories of those fellows on the staff who get rewards without doing anything! [2]
These old accounts from Baglivi are curious and interesting, but I am cautious about receiving any stories a hundred years old, if they involve an improbability, as his stories about the cure of the tarantula bite by music certainly do. [6]
We shall not despise translations of short stories, but otherwise the matter will all be original, and, of course, it won't all be short stories. [8]
These nine stories could not be called popular, and they were the only stories I have ever written which did not have an immediate welcome from the editors to whom they were sent. [11]
But our stories are the stories of men who have been under the enemy's fire! [2]

More example sentences with the word stories in them

In three different years I have written three stories annually: that makes thirty-three. [6]
Here I was, writing stories for my living and my reputation. [6]
I guess I'll write stories and things. [4]
To sleep there with them, and awake in the night and hear the wind in the trees, and see the sparks fly up to the sky, is a perfect realization of all the stories of adventures he has ever read. [4]
The huntsmen assembled with their booty and their stories, and all came to look at the wolf, which, with her broad-browed head hanging down and the bitten stick between her jaws, gazed with great glassy eyes at this crowd of dogs and men surrounding her. [2]
The responsibility is with the novelist and the writer of stories, the chief characteristic of which is vulgar commonplace. [4]
Miss Cynthia listened with involuntary interest to her stories of school and school-mates. [6]
He drank much wine and beer, and told amusing stories of the French-Canadians which delighted them all. [11]
The foolish writers who insist on one's reading through their manuscript poems and stories ought to know how fatal the request is to their prospects. [6]
He well knew who had brought all these stories to the others, and answered Xaver's malicious spite with open enmity. [10]
A chief pleasure which the author of novels and stories experiences is that of becoming acquainted with the characters be draws. [6]
There are stories which show that Emerson had a retentive memory in the earlier part of his life. [6]
Lucretia and Virginia were the first that he thought of; but then came up those pictured stories of Titus Livius, which he could never read without crying, though he had read them a hundred times. [6]
At night there were great stories of achievement told by the cavernous fireplace; great latitude was permitted in the estimation of the size of particular drifts, but never any agreement was reached as to the "depth on a level. [4]
We might as well say that there are no more good pictures to be painted as that there are no more good stories to be told. [4]
It scared people well a couple of hundred years ago when Sir John Marsham and Dr. John Spencer ventured to tell their stories about the sacred ceremonies of the Egyptian priesthood. [6]
Among the stories was one told by a dreary narrator named Ben Coon. [5]
William Dean Howells was in those days writing those vividly realistic, indeed photographic stories which fixed his place among American men of letters. [5]
Courted as Laura was by a certain class and still admitted into society, that, nevertheless, buzzed with disreputable stories about her, she had lost character with the best people. [5]
I have long wanted a good chance for getting acquainted with the social sphere several grades below that to which I am accustomed, and I have no doubt that I shall find matter for half a dozen new stories among those connections of mine. [6]
Harry was a very entertaining fellow, having his imagination to help his memory, and telling his stories as if he believed them--as perhaps he did. [5]
Our young Scheherezade varies her prose stories now and then, as I told you, with compositions in verse, one or two of which she has let me look over. [6]
A bay ran up the two stories, and at the left were two narrow doorways, one for each flat. [9]
Lurida has stirred up our little community and its neighbors, so that we get essays on all sorts of subjects, poems and stories in large numbers. [6]
Through all the twenty stories of this second volume the character of Pierre moved; and by the time the last was written there was scarcely an important magazine in the English-speaking world which had not printed one or more of them. [11]
Twichell, during a trip South about this time, had called on Harris with some sort of proposition or suggestion from Clemens that Harris appear with him in public, and tell, or read, the Remus stories from the platform. [5]
Mr. Bernard's professional training had made him slow to accept marvellous stories and many forms of superstition. [6]
The travelers were told stories of the lack of common morality and decency in the region, but they made no note of them. [4]
The reader of to-day who has the curiosity to inquire into the correctness of this opinion will, if he is familiar with the romances of the eighteenth century, find little originality in Brown's stories, and nothing distinctively American. [4]
He cut away to the core of a matter, and having simple, fixed ideas, he was able to focus the talk, which had begun with hunting stories, and ended with the morality of duelling. [11]
Tough stories come to me, but I put'em away. [5]
Formerly I used to listen to report with interest, and a certain credulity; but I am now grown deaf and sceptical: experience has taught me how absolutely devoid of foundation her stories may be. [14]
Arsenic-eating may seem to improve the condition of horses for a time,--and even of human beings, if Tschudi's stories can be trusted,--but it soon appears that its alien qualities are at war with the animal organization. [3]
Is there anything to countenance the stories, long and widely current, about the "evil eye"? [6]
It took some time to break the ice, but gradually she began to say things, half stories, half poetic, not out of books; things that, if said with assurance, in the city would be called wit. [4]
From time to time the stories which I offer to the public in this volume were given forth. [11]
Mr. Hue I think it is, who tells us some very good stories about the way in which two Chinese gentlemen contrive to keep up a long talk without saying a word which has any meaning in it. [6]
At this time, they talked over the stories they were engaged upon, and described their plots. [14]
If I called these two stories Studies of the Reflex Function in its higher sphere, I should frighten away all but the professors and the learned ladies. [6]
The second of these two last stories must be told in prosaic detail to show its whole value as a coincidence. [6]
Of certain of these stories, particularly of the Australian group, I have no doubt. [11]
I ask whether these stories in any way enter into your life, become part of you, and tend to make you a more useful woman? [9]
The first-named of these stories has revolted many readers by the power with which wicked and exceptional characters are depicted. [14]
And telling over these old stories reminds me that I have something which may interest architects and perhaps some other persons. [6]
While listening to these love stories his own love for Natasha unexpectedly rose to his mind, and going over the pictures of that love in his imagination he mentally compared them with Ramballe's tales. [2]
What I beheld there, in field and forest, enabled me in after life, when I desired a background for my stories, not to paint stage scenes, but take Nature herself for a model. [10]
I'd been telling them stories and they used them as a means of tempting me to act in the absurd marriage ceremony. [11]
With some of them I have been long acquainted, and I know that their accounts of diseases are no more to be trusted than their contemporary Ambroise Pare's stories of mermen, and similar absurdities. [3]
As usual, in their spare time, they lit bonfires, steamed themselves before them naked; smoked, picked out and baked sprouting rotten potatoes, told and listened to stories of Potemkin's and Suvorov's campaigns, or to legends of Alesha the Sly, or the priest's laborer Mikolka. [2]
These stories made their place at once. [11]
The first of the two stories based itself upon an experiment which some thought cruel, even on paper. [6]
Then, learning that the Times was paying Harte $100 a column for stories, he concluded to write some for the same price. [5]
The rear of the tenement-houses showed him the picturesqueness of clothes-lines fluttering far aloft, as in Florence; and the new apartment-houses, breaking the old sky-line with their towering stories, implied a life as alien to the American manner as anything in continental Europe. [8]
The publication of the stories was continuous, and at the time that Pierre and His People appeared several of those which came between the covers of A Romany of the Snows were passing through the pages of magazines in England and America. [11]
They spoke of the sayings and doings of their commander, the Grand Duke, and told stories of his kindness and irascibility. [2]
This is not the place for discussing the stories written for the young and for the Sunday-school. [4]
The Records of the Pansophian Society contain a considerable number of essays, poems, stories, and hints capable of being expanded into presentable dimensions. [6]
Half stifled in the one, they mounted in the other eight stories, while they tried to keep their self-respect under the gaze of the superintendent, which they felt was classing and assessing them with unfriendly accuracy. [8]
Many stories of the now all-powerful Jethro William heard from the little coterie which made their headquarters in his store--stories of how those methods of which we have read were gradually spread over other towns and other counties. [9]
Indeed, but for the intervention of the magazines, few of the best writers of novels and short stories could earn as much as the day laborer earns. [4]
The stories that the house was haunted gained in frequency of repetition and detail of circumstance. [6]
He lingers at the campfires and swaps stories with the officers, and entertains the sick and wounded in the hospitals. [9]
I think also that there are special influences which work in the brood lake ferments, and I have a suspicion that some of those curious old stories I cited may have more recent parallels. [6]
It was considered that the stories had gathered bulk on their travels. [5]
All the stories that can be found in old manuscripts will never prevent the going out of the fires of the legendary Inferno. [6]
It is probable that both these stories may have had their origin in the simple fact of Tom's shedding tears upon the inquest--which he certainly did, extraordinary as it may appear. [12]
Clemens does not tell us here the nature of Carlton's insult, forgiveness of which he was not yet qualified to grant, but there are at least two stories about it, or two halves of the same incident, as related afterward by Clemens and Canton. [5]
The stories they tell of him show him to be of a brave and generous nature. [5]
Hodder took in, subconsciously, that the house was a dingy grey, of three stories and a Mansard roof, with a bay window on the yard side, and a fly-blown sign, "Rooms to Rent" hanging in one window. [9]
As for his stories, they had never failed to hold the attention of his audience; this was partly due to the fact that he usually had to break them off at the point where the interest had reached its climax. [10]
Good old questionable stories were told that made the tears run down and cavernous mouths stand wide and the round bellies shake with laughter; and questionable songs were bellowed out in a mighty chorus that drowned the boom of the tolling bells. [5]
All sorts of stories were circulated as to what happened to him, one of which was cabled to America. [5]
We hear wonderful stories of the bright generation that sat about the wide fireplaces of New England. [4]
I had heard stories of slights, of stabs, of rebuffs, of spiteful remarks. [4]
There are dark stories of his getting advance payers on the summit and then leaving them there to rot. [5]
Holy, what fine stories he tell! [11]
If your genuine stories can die, I wonder by what right old Walter Scott's artificialities shall continue to live. [5]
All the earlier stories belonged to 1890, 1891, 1892, and 1893. [11]
In reality the stories are only alligator pears--one merely eats them for the sake of the salad-dressing. [5]
Falchion', and the South Sea stories published in various journals before the time of its production, and indeed anterior to the writing of the Pierre series, only assured me attention. [11]
They have all sorts of painful stories about her. [6]
The house which sheltered us was only two stories high, but pretty and spacious. [10]
Hans Eitelfritz had seen him in the distance, and shouted: "A pretty little house, three stories high. [10]
History and the sciences interested him, and his bed was strewn with biographies and stories of astronomical and geological research. [5]
It has been said that, apart from the colour, form, and setting, the incidents of these Pierre stories might have occurred anywhere. [11]
He had two rooms in the second and third stories of this old wooden building: his study in the second, his sleeping-room in the one above it. [6]
Every flatboatman who returned to Kentucky was full of tales of the marvellous beauty of the quadroons and octoroons, stories which I had taken with a grain of salt; but they had not indeed been greatly overdrawn. [9]
Digby and the rest, where I have found plenty of curious stories which you must take for what they are worth. [6]
One even becomes reconciled to the cistern presently; this is a mighty cask, painted green, and sometimes a couple of stories high, which is propped against the house-corner on stilts. [5]
The stories they read, if they read at all--the novels, so called, that they have been brought up on--are the diluted and feeble fictions that flood the country, and that scarcely rise above the intellectual level of Jimmy and the absorbed pig. [4]
Aside from the question of morals, and the absolutely demoralizing manner of treating social questions, most of their stories are vapid and weak beyond expression, and are slovenly in composition, showing neither study, training, nor mental discipline. [4]
Seventeen years after publishing these stories I had occasion to write to Frederick Greenwood, and in my letter I said: "I can never forget that you gave me a leg up in my first struggle for recognition in the literary world. [11]
He wrote and published a number of notable sketches, articles, stories, even books, during these later years, among them that marvelous short story--"The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg. [5]
There is some proof of what I say in the fact that one of the stories in A Romany of the Snows, called The Going of the White Swan, appropriately enough published originally in Scribner's Magazine, has had an extraordinary popularity. [11]
Then all these pretty stories I hear of him are false. [9]
The stories were pretty sizable, merely pretty sizable; yet Mr. H. was continually interrupting with a cold, inexorable 'Wait--knock off twenty-five per cent. [5]
In the year preceding the revolution there had been a bad harvest, and frightful stories were told of famine in the weaving districts of Silesia. [10]
It is not practicable or rational to try to tell two stories at the same time; so I dug out the farce and left the tragedy. [5]
Short stories, slender poems, steel engravings, on a level with the common fashion-plates of advertising establishments, gilt edges, resplendent binding,--to manifestations of this sort our lighter literature had very largely run for some years. [6]
It had its place among other uncredited stories, and was there to be turned into Greek by students of that language. [5]

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