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Sentences ending with story

You must prepare yourself to hear a short story. [10]
Go on with your story. [10]
He tells a Young Girl's Story. [6]
Now, what think you was his story? [11]
Lassiter will tell you how I shot her for a rustler, saved her life--all the story. [13]
I will tell you a funny story. [9]
Let me tell you a doctor's story. [6]
A few hurried words told them the fearful story. [6]
Then, as the woman desired more particular information, he briefly told her the story. [10]
He approached this with unusual delicacy: it needed bravery to look into the mother's eyes, and tell the story. [11]

Short sentences using story

This is the whole story. [7]
That tells the whole story. [5]
That is the whole story. [5]
There was the whole story. [11]
There is my whole story. [11]
Still the story was unsatisfactory. [5]
Go on--tell me thy story. [5]
He told her the story. [9]
You shall hear the story. [10]
Where you hear that story? [8]

Sentences containing story two or more times

Lest the envious world should not believe his own story, Smith had Baker, his steward, and several of his crew examined before a magistrate at Plymouth, December 8, 1615, who support his story by their testimony up to a certain point. [4]
The great bear-hunter, who keeps one of the summer boarding-houses, received my story with a smile of incredulity; and the incredulity spread to the other inhabitants and to the boarders as soon as the story was known. [4]
The second story, which projected above the ground floor into the street, was completely dark; but a faint glimmer of light streamed from the little window over the spurge laurel tree, and--this was the main thing--the bow window in the third story was still lighted. [10]
They were shocked when they heard him cap an argument upon grave affairs of state with a story about "a man out in Sangamon County,"--a story, to be sure, strikingly clinching his point, but sadly lacking in dignity. [7]
Then why don't we unwittingly reproduce the phrasing of a story, as well as the story itself? [5]
The whisper--for it was whispered always--flew from menial to menial, from lord to lady, down all the long corridors, from story to story, from saloon to saloon, "The prince hath gone mad, the prince hath gone mad! [5]
Everybody was trying to find out what his story was,--for a story, and a strange one, he must surely have,--and nobody had succeeded. [6]
Prince Andrew several times prompted Pierre's story of what he had been doing, as though it were all an old-time story, and he listened not only without interest but even as if ashamed of what Pierre was telling him. [2]
I felt that the story of his life must be a sad one--a story of suffering, disappointment, and exile--a story of man's inhumanity to man in some shape or other--and I longed to persuade the secret from him. [5]
Not only is the illusion gone, but the movement of the story, if there is a story, is retarded, till the reader loses all enjoyment in impatience and weariness. [4]

More example sentences with the word story in them

Let us have your story, and be merry. [9]
We are enjoying your story with our usual unspeakableness; and I'm right glad you threw in the shipwreck and the mystery--I like it. [5]
If you lay your story out there, nobody will suspect anything of the sort. [4]
I saved up your last story to read when the numbers should be complete, but before that time arrived some other admirer of yours carried off the papers. [5]
To-night Summon up your courage, for there are things which even a man--To make the story short, then: Tonight Wolff Eysvogel and young Vorchtel quarreled, or rather Ulrich irritated your Wolff so cruelly that he drew his sword--" "Wolff! [10]
I don't want your book; my shelves are full of books now," though the reader may remember that it was Carlton himself who had given the frog story to the Saturday Press and had seen it become famous. [5]
Jonathan Edwards the younger tells the story of a brutal wretch in New Haven who was abusing his father, when the old man cried out, "Don't drag me any further, for I did n't drag my father beyond this tree. [6]
There was a young novelist present whose first story, "The Girl I Left Behind Me," had made a hit the last season. [4]
I must tell you, mon cher," he continued in the sad and measured tones of a man who intends to tell a long story, "that our name is one of the most ancient in France. [2]
In that country you might fall from a third story window three several times, and not mash either a soldier or a priest.--The scarcity of such people is astonishing. [5]
At last: Do you know the story of Andromeda? [6]
I cannot tell you how we have followed you, with what interest and delight through your travels, as you have told their story in your letters to your mother. [6]
Let me tell you a story, adapted to young persons, but which won't hurt older ones. [6]
For thousands of years the story of the Exodus has lived in the minds of numberless people as something actual, and it still retains its vitality. [10]
For the three years I was in the mounted police, I could count a story for all the days o' the calendar --and not all o' them would make you happy to hear. [11]
Helen had now written her first book--a wonderful book--'The Story of My Life', and it had been successfully published. [5]
Possibly he contemplated writing a story with this idea as the theme, but He seems never to have done so. [5]
He invited the writer to accompany him, and elsewhere I have told in detail the story of that excursion,--[See Mark Twain; A Biography, chap. [5]
And when the writer is making a story and finds it necessary to report some of the talk of his characters observe how cautiously and anxiously he goes at that risky and difficult thing. [5]
Even if he wounded Racine only, what a wretched story to go abroad: that he had fought with a hunchback--a hunchback who knew the use of the sword, which he did not, but still a hunchback! [11]
The little group would often gather round him of a night and beg him to tell again that story of good Miss Nell who died. [12]
Handcuffs and chains would look still better on Jim, but it wouldn't go well with the story of us being so poor. [5]
Nobody, I suppose, would doubt this story if the moose, quaffing deep draughts of red wine from silver tankards, and then throwing themselves back upon divans, and lazily puffing the fragrant Havana. [4]
The story has won the attention and enjoyed the favor of a limited class of readers, and if it still continues to interest others of the same tastes and habits of thought I can ask nothing more of it. [6]
There is a woman--look you, it is a sad, sad story hers. [11]
Pray go on with your story, Belotti; I won't interrupt you again. [10]
And that night, with the stars jumping and the air biting cold (for we were up in the 40's), and the John wish-washing through the seas at three leagues the hour, MacMuir told me the story of Mungo Maxwell. [9]
I carry it with me always--it and Goldsmith's deathless story. [5]
He had been with Lyon at Wilson's Creek, and he had a sad story to tell of how he found poor Richter, lying stark on that bloody field, with a smile of peace upon his face. [9]
Visitors are charmed with its resemblance to the old castles of song and story, with its towers, turreted walls, and ivy-mantled porches. [5]
A young man with an unusually tall and powerful figure was standing in this yard, gazing up at a window in the second story. [10]
Speranski smiled and, with an evident wish to prevent the conversation from taking an unpleasant course, told a story that had no connection with the previous conversation. [2]
Speaking thickly and with a faraway look in his shining eyes, he told the whole story of his life: his marriage, Natasha's love for his best friend, her betrayal of him, and all his own simple relations with her. [2]
I could have wished to leave untold the story of the English mission, an episode in Motley's life full of heart-burnings, and long to be regretted as a passage of American history. [6]
They passed that winter in London, where he worked at the story of his travels, Following the Equator, the proofs of which he read the next summer in Switzerland. [5]
The minor character will now become the chiefest, and I will name the story after him--"Puddn'head Wilson. [5]
This story, which will live and grow for years in this region, a waxing and never-waning peril of the volcano, I found, subsequently, had the foundation I have mentioned above. [4]
It told the whole story of her heart. [11]
I got the whole story from the third mate and two of the sailors. [5]
When every one who wanted a chance had had it, the man who had introduced the story would give it its original ending--then you could take your choice. [5]
The young fellow, who usually had behaved no worse than the other Ephebi, had always returned from such festivities with a flushed face and unsteady steps, but to-night he had not even reached his room in the upper story. [10]
I can't imagine who told you that story. [9]
There are men who might take that story to heart. [9]
Principal Silas Peckham, who had been called from his slumbers by a message that Master Langdon was shot through the head by a highway-robber, but had learned a true version of the story by this time. [6]
It was he who first confided in me that he would not force Antoinette to marry; it was she, at length, who told me the story of Nicholas Temple and his mother. [9]
There are those who discredit Jake's story about finding the ring in the fish; anyhow, there was the ring and there was the pickerel. [6]
Listen to me while I show you the parallel of the story of the astronomer in the history of medicine. [6]
Once in a while I paused to ask him a question as he sat with his chair tilted back and his feet on the table, reading a detective story. [9]
The dogmatic controversies which were already kindled at the time of my story I have, on careful consideration, avoided mentioning. [10]
In Philip's story, which was very slowly maturing, the heroine fell in love with a young man simply for himself, and regardless of the fact that he was poor and had his career to make. [4]
All the shots which just missed the top of the rampart cut into the dead wall pretty much in a straight line, and at length cut right through and brought the upper story tumbling down. [5]
Is the story which is told of you here true? [10]
The first story, which is still standing, in the midst of a heap of ruins, is 260 feet high. [10]
The country press, which had far and wide printed the interesting story, softened it in accordance with the later development. [4]
But the story which called out the most persistent and determined and ambitious effort was one which had no ending, and so there was nothing to compare the new-made endings with. [5]
With some gesticulation which added greatly to the force of the story, he gave a most terse and vivid account of Mr. John's arrival at the embankment by the grove--of his charging a whole regiment of Union volunteers. [9]
The other night when you were telling me your little story, you were near sending yourself into eternity--as near as I am knocking this ash off my cigar. [11]
The more closely what he had to say concerned himself, the briefer he would make his story. [10]
But if you were, if you had a hand in the making of your funny little story, there's a nutcracker that 'd break the shell of that joke--" He turned round quickly, seeing a shadow and hearing a movement. [11]
But behold, they were not wild enough--they were not fanciful enough--they have not told half the story. [5]
But with it went a very exciting story. [4]
We might as well leave out the wrath of Achilles from the Iliad, as the anger of the President with Sumner from the story of Motley's dismissal. [6]
Her story was well enough, but it hadn't much sand in it; kind of-well, academic, you know. [8]
My story was well advanced before Hawthorne's wonderful "Marble Faun," which might be thought to have furnished me with the hint of a mixed nature,--human, with an alien element,--was published or known to me. [6]
That day, as we sat on the summit, he gave in great detail the story, the general outline of which is well known. [4]
Well, sometimes when we have met since, I have told you the same story, and you've kept your promise and listened. [11]
In Roughing It we find the story of that first lecture and its success. [5]
In real life we do not call that a story where everything is left unconcluded and in the air. [4]
Other astronomers will watch, and some no doubt will pray, and I shall read in the annals the bright story of the flower that was turned into a star! [11]
For the story was, that he was paying his court to the young lady whenever he got an opportunity, and that he was cultivating an intimacy with Miss Cynthia Badlam. [6]
In this memorandum--which was written many years afterwards--we read the simple story of his love: "We saw each other every day, and I became excessively attached to her. [4]
Fleda's first impulse was to break in upon the woman's story and tell her father what had happened just now outside their own house; but she waited. [11]
In Sally's eyes was the story of the past three years: of love and temptation and struggle, of watchfulness and yearning and anxiety, of determination and an inviolable hope. [11]
Such, at least, was the story I heard after he disappeared from general observation. [6]
Even while Katharina was telling her story, the brave and strenuous youth had set himself the problem of rescuing the cloistered sisters. [10]
In Lennestrasse it was still she who waked me, prepared us to go to school, took us to walk, and--how could I ever forget it?--gathered us around her "when the lamps were lighted," to read aloud or tell us some story. [10]
But surely there was something in the story of the song itself that had moved her. [11]
There Platon Karataev was sitting covered up--head and all--with his greatcoat as if it were a vestment, telling the soldiers in his effective and pleasant though now feeble voice a story Pierre knew. [2]
But his story was scarcely ended when a carriage stopped at the Corner of the Muses and an aristocratic Roman alighted. [10]
One night I was on the point of relating some dismal ghost story, just before bed-time. [14]
The petroleum story was not told to me; he told it to Joe Twichell, who ran across him by accident on a sea voyage where I think the two were the only passengers. [5]
And the story was not in any of its features new, except to the auditor. [4]
But the story was meant to be readable for those who did not care for its underlying philosophy. [6]
The lower story was fitted up as a shop. [6]
And many times was Edith extracted from the recesses of the cellar in a condition bordering on hysterics, the day ending tamely with a Bible story or a selection from "Little Women" read by Cousin Eleanor. [9]
And Pierre's soul was dimly but joyfully filled not by the story itself but by its mysterious significance: by the rapturous joy that lit up Karataev's face as he told it, and the mystic significance of that joy. [2]
If the woman was dead, then there was no hope for Dyck Calhoun; any story that she-- Sheila--might tell would be of no use. [11]
Originally the story was called "Those Extraordinary Twins. [5]
And the story was at the Coffee House early on the morrow. [9]
In 1830 it was a snug collection of modest one- and two- story frame dwellings, whose whitewashed exteriors were almost concealed from sight by climbing tangles of rose vines, honeysuckles, and morning glories. [5]
One of these was a dream story, enthusiastically begun, but perhaps with insufficient plot to carry it through, for it never reached conclusion. [5]
I only just want to say that the closing installments of the story are prodigious. [5]
For who could vouch for the truth of his story? [11]
He shut the volume, and opened it again at a venture.--The story of Laocoon! [6]
Nothing in this volume is more amusing and at the same time more poetic and romantic than the story of "Governor Manco and the Soldier," in which this legend is used to cover the exploit of a dare-devil contrabandista. [4]
Its showy splendour, visible for a long distance, occupied the wide space between the door of the house and the windows of the upper story. [10]
Not he; but virtue passed through the hem of their parchment and leather garments whenever he touched them, as the precious drugs sweated through the bat's handle in the Arabian story. [6]
They might be very thankful to get her back, and leave her to tell the rest of her story when she had got her strength and memory, for she was not quite herself yet, and might not be for some days. [6]
This story is very short, and is perhaps the most highly tragic of anything of its length that has ever been witnessed in real life. [7]
The story was very pretty and interesting, especially at the point where the rivals suddenly recognized one another; and the ladies looked agitated. [2]

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