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    storied


    stories


    story


    1. He spoke with the weight and wretchedness of veterans of storied conflicts from decades past


    2. A few lights were sprinkled amongst the low storied buildings


    3. It's former rural setting was slowly being gobbled up by rows of semi-detached middle income estates of two storied houses, pretending to blend into the countryside behind clumps of trees, that the developers in their wisdom had not obliterated, completely


    4. The picture showed a large, two storied, house with a huge tree to one side


    5. The house was a narrow three storied building, wedged at the rear of the dole building


    6. There was to be a lot more to happen in their lives, a steady spiraling downward of events at an ever increasing tempo, before I would be engaged in an even more active role than I had been in the years I have storied so far


    7. Never before in the storied history of the RKU has a


    8. While this might seem like a rather esoteric mathematical tidbit, it has profound implications and a storied history


    9. ‗Google Maps‘ showed the roofs of one large and one smaller single storied buildings plus a couple of sheds in a clearing among trees, but no details were visible


    10. Joe pulled up outside an end of terrace two storied dwelling that was known as 31, St

    11. They skirted the green to tread down a lane laid with red brick and two storied cottages that were part business and part residential


    12. Pierce, perhaps the oldest in the group, in his early forties, had a storied career, having taken our


    13. A very large, two storied prefabricated building sat on a long stone ledge


    14. The magnificent storied skyline of late 19th century London stood out


    15. turned out to be a triple storied building in one of the


    16. only multi storied building in Umtata


    17. For me, Nkandla has always been about an extraordinary history and an extraordinary people; a semi-secret, almost sacred place at the centre of one of our country’s greatest stories, and of one of our most storied peoples


    18. As she continued to look up at the twenty-five storied skyscraper, and taking in the sign above it’s entrance, Kathy recalled some information she’d gleaned about Garland Crest Productions, from an article she’d read about the rock group and the productions company they’d founded


    19. she had never known them; they were only storied figments of the past


    20. Riordan of the Warhounds, one of the few men in that storied company who'd been a friend to him

    21. Back at the RV, Chuck was laughing at the storied history of his family’s alma mater


    22. lived on a three storied boat which was almost exactly


    23. to Hell; those who believe souls of the dead are storied in a chamber do not believe they


    24. Elowen stared at the sign of the two storied inn, a huge boar


    25. As we have elected you as our leader, as once the great patriarch of your family was during the long years of his lifetime, it is only fitting that the oldest of the relics that have been passed down to us from our much storied past should go to you


    26. He gave me a discerning look, “Thought you were the only one with a storied past didn’t you


    27. Those who believe in Hell do not believe any belongings from this life can be taken to Hell; those who believe souls of the dead are storied in a chamber do not believe they have their weapons


    28. games hall which was a two storied building about forty metres square by four metres high


    29. Dimmesdale encountered the eldest female member of his church; a most pious and exemplary old dame; poor, widowed, lonely, and with a heart as full of reminiscences about her dead husband and children, and her dead friends of long ago, as a burial-ground is full of storied gravestones


    30. The Intercollegiate Rowing Association’s regatta at Poughkeepsie was a storied institution, with roots deep in the history of American rowing

    31. , upheld the family traditions and brought even greater glory to the storied Torbold stables


    32. It was created by a storied ad agency and promoted by a top-tier PR firm, at a cost of nearly $1 billion


    33. He liked the way it opened doors for him, the way it made people happy to see him, not because he was William Hamilton-Sweeney III, the wastrel heir, or Billy Three-Sticks, front-man of the storied Ex Post Facto, but because, he felt, he was himself


    34. the perils they would meet; and they pondered the storied and figured maps and books of lore that were in the house of Elrond


    35. The founder of the firm was storied as the number-one South African tennis player when he was a teen and built his firm around the principles of transforming high-level tennis players into traders


    36. Japanese candlesticks have been around for more than 1,000 years and have a great and storied history


    37. I had the privilege of sitting down with Swensen at his Yale office, and before I ventured up the hallowed halls of that storied institution, I did what any good student would do: I spent the night before cramming


    38. After my Chicago years, my bosses at Salomon Brothers’ storied Bond Portfolio Analysis Group let me balance research and market roles, always stressing the value of conveying complex ideas as intuitively as possible


    39. Or what is there apart from the traditions of dungeoned warriors and kings (which will not wholly account for it) that makes the White Tower of London tell so much more strongly on the imagination of an untravelled American, than those other storied structures, its neighbors—the Byward Tower, or even the Bloody? And those sublimer towers, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, whence, in peculiar moods, comes that gigantic ghostliness over the soul at the bare mention of that name, while the thought of Virginia's Blue Ridge is full of a soft, dewy, distant dreaminess? Or why, irrespective of all latitudes and longitudes, does the name of the White Sea exert such a spectralness over the fancy, while that of the Yellow Sea lulls us with mortal thoughts of long lacquered mild afternoons on the waves, followed by the gaudiest and yet sleepiest of sunsets? Or, to choose a wholly unsubstantial instance, purely addressed to the fancy, why, in reading the old fairy tales of Central Europe, does "the tall pale man" of the Hartz forests, whose changeless pallor unrustlingly glides through the green of the groves—why is this phantom more terrible than all the whooping imps of the Blocksburg?


    40. There it was, too, that most of the deadly encounters with the white whale had taken place; there the waves were storied with his deeds; there also was that tragic spot where the monomaniac old man had found the awful motive to his vengeance

    41. To classic realms of storied pomps and show


    1. "I thought I bored you with my stories of Zharvai


    2. “Theo! Why don’t we have adorable stories?”


    3. "The movies here are all tangled love stories," Herndon griped


    4. Eight Stories About Ironing


    5. They had no stories


    6. He decided that this would be his gift to them—he would grant them names and stories of his own making:


    7. ” Since then, the famous label has been called by admirers, devotees and some of the hundreds of mainstream publications who have asked for permission to write stories about Dr


    8. I want to quote it practically whole, because such life stories of


    9. Plunk: it lands on the ground two stories below


    10. Plunk: He lands on the ground two stories below as John and all the class rush to the window to see what has happened

    11. from Top Cat and, without doubt, the grinning beast from the Alice stories


    12. While we were packing boxes, we chatted about all sorts of things … she told me some stories about her childhood which were very similar to some of my own memories – not really surprising, we’re both country girls, after all


    13. When it departed she had only watched news stories about it


    14. She compared this to stories she read of people getting into derelict spaceships


    15. Gods, even small ones, should never delegate, but if you read the stories in any


    16. I love listening to them talking about how things were when they were younger … some of them have seen tremendous changes in the way even the simplest things are done and their stories about the village are fascinating


    17. Some of the stories they relate give me a fascinating insight into village life


    18. Her stories are structured in a very unusual way: I have written down in a separate notebook memories, fantasies, as well as dreams of mine and I have classified them in certain categories: Start of story – Main events – Secondary events – Cosmic truths – Fights – Dialogues – Space and time – End of story


    19. I have just finished the third book of the series “Sandra Anderson - Astral Fantasy”, which is composed of four stories


    20. Naturally, we get round to the subject of the Remembrance Day service and Henry tells me some more stories about his days in the Home Guard

    21. They were childhood sweethearts and had an ‘understanding’ by the time they were in the mid-teens – she told me stories of some of her friends who lost their men or, got them back seriously disabled and mentally disturbed by the events they had experienced


    22. This morning I finished the fourth book of my illustrated manuscripts “Sandra Anderson - Astral Fantasy”, which contains only three stories


    23. It contains only two stories


    24. In the Great War, when the concept of concentration wiped out the lives of millions, there were always those who remained, those who survived and who told their stories


    25. The meal is a jolly one, with Wally telling some amusing stories about Nick as a child which Nick takes in very good part


    26. At last! One of the uncountable (and usually dead-end) ideas I come up with in order to improve my life has just brought a result! Having found out recently that the monthly magazine “Greek Fantasy” publishes short fantasy stories of new writers, I thought of sending them one


    27. We shared a geographical commonality along the borders between Lebanon and Palestine, and through it so much common history, which made the personal nature of our lives and stories mutually accessible


    28. Over these days and weeks our guards would, by turns, sit and chat with us, joking and telling stories of life in the West Country, tales of farms and girls and brimstone preachers


    29. Although between us two the stories and the jokes and the games continued unabated, nonetheless the days merged together and we all grew tired of this necessary but wearing role-play with the guards


    30. From there, via one party conversation or another, he landed a series of job offers that culminated with him moving to London as foreign correspondent for Consolidated World News, better known as CWN, one of the many news agencies that supplied stories for the Middle East newspapers and satellite television channels

    31. Read other stories that show you more of the world


    32. Once the euphoria of the meeting subsided a little, we four settled into the habitual comparisons that dominate male conversation, sharing our stories of capture, and gabbling away ten to the dozen in a mixture of Arabic and English about our shared experiences in the hostage hotels


    33. It seemed important, somehow, that each of us should know the other’s stories


    34. As the youngest in the group I tended to listen more than I spoke, and I enjoyed a vicarious and voyeuristic expansion of my hinterland through the far more interesting stories from other people’s lives


    35. One of my favourite games over the months through to the coming of early spring birdsong was to recount those alternative life stories and to imagine myself in the place of either Aban or Menachem


    36. I could tell you some tough stories of that life too, out there IN the swamps


    37. He doesn’t know the Old Testament stories of Elijah raising the widow’s son


    38. Soon stories spread through the kingdom and lands far beyond about the


    39. Tales of creation vary according to time and place in any given universe, and yet, when you hear those dusty tales it is the similarities between them that strike you the most, and from these similarities we assume that there must at least be a grain of truth shared amongst our stories of beginning


    40. Stories of Sons’ greatness continued to reach distant lands

    41. The road ends at a big plaza on the edge of downtown called Kivara Shig, the low side of this plaza has only six stories of stone or ceramic, the top branches of the other side are thirty stories above it


    42. It's only a mile and a half long and hardly ever more than three stories high, with stairs connecting to both fourth and ground floors of the outdoor streets


    43. She is from Jamaica and she also loosely Nigeria is her muse, this is where many of her stories take


    44. There are a lot of good stories for Sunday School


    45. listening to stories narrated by the village elders as


    46. Some stories are as follows: Germanicus slaughtered the population across the Rhine (Belgium, Netherlands, and Northern Germany)


    47. stories that v got 2 hear abt it from time to


    48. They go down into the ground 3 stories


    49. The spectre of ghostly stories


    50. Stories of farmhouse kitchens in closer times,














































    1. story to lie and deceive people


    2. In the end, my story took about 7000 words to relay, thanks for listening and would you shut the door behind you on your way out?


    3. The better story by far was that of the girl who wrote it


    4. "That's her story, that's my sister


    5. that new story line on offer - Il ness is invariably and very quickly fatal!


    6. Ennil got them each a cup of yaag and they got thru it while Jorma told him the story


    7. “Let me tell you a story, Toby


    8. “That’s a really fucking dumb story


    9. The real story is that it is most likely very difficult to program the autoresponders or whatever item they are trying to talk you out of


    10. It reminded her of the story of Hansel and Gretel that Pap Pap used to tell her and her brother when they visited him in the hospital

    11. At the end, when Hansel and Gretel threw the witch into the oven, he’d say “now here’s a scary part coming up…” Pap Pap had told them that story a hundred times but didn’t always remember he had


    12. They are no more dangerous than a housecat, their two thousand pound relatives are a different story


    13. But this story isn’t about my friend’s bullshit, or even my bullshit


    14. There is a story of how the miners would take a bird in a cage down with them into the mines


    15. this isn't my love story


    16. well, but it is another story when things are going against


    17. Herndon almost popped an aneurism over that, she could see purple veins pound in his face, but she turned it on him with the story of Kulai's fortune


    18. The TV, which is wedded to sensationalism, is least bother about the influence of the story on young mind or the frustration of intellectuals in being helpless to correct the situation


    19. Do you know the story of Haques, the greatest hunter of all? In the peak of hunting season, Haques would kill more animals each day than the village could eat


    20. ‘We are making enquiries in Weston-super-Mare, Mrs Wynell, trying to check your story

    21. Wolf Blitzer: the untold story


    22. I’m on a story


    23. Following is a story of a man who chose to do nothing but wait for God’s help


    24. It is your story


    25. This is an amazing story, Mr


    26. Then he told me the story of a British naval officer who traveled to India during the British occupation and became enamored with Sikhism, and how the guru, whom this officer was learning from, advised the man when he wanted to convert to Sikhism


    27. At age eighteen I was like any one of you who reads this story at whatever


    28. Ja, it is alvays a long story vith


    29. The vimmen is a story


    30. To cut a long story short, over the next two years I swapped overalls for a shirt

    31. It was just the story,


    32. wasn’t it John? Just the story


    33. The story is about love at first sight


    34. is the story of my creative life


    35. It was an old story


    36. Mirielle was one of the few who knew the whole story, gradually over time she had won his trust where few others had


    37. ’ I said, as they take up another story about a prospective wind farm in the Bishop’s Lydiard area


    38. story of one of God’s generals at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries


    39. In spite of himself, John has become intensely interested in the story


    40. The story was that he was a bouncer and nightclub owner, but who's to say that was even true

    41. I told them the whole story, about Rocco, Fiona, everything


    42. Something about Gino's story made him particularly uneasy


    43. In the book of prophet Daniel there is a story about three young


    44. Reading their story in the Bible, I understood that


    45. One of the brightest examples of this is the story of Job


    46. It was built in low orbit and could be seen from the ground for it was nearly the size of a hundred story office building


    47. the mechanic admitted that he’d made up the story when Sadler asked him to


    48. There’s some question about whether the man had been caught with his hand in the till which will need looking into, but the net result is that Sadler’s story no longer holds water


    49. What's it to me really? I give you the girl's name, you fuck off, end of story


    50. There is one more story that is mentioned in three different books of














































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    Synonyms for "story"

    floor level storey story account chronicle history news report report write up fib tale taradiddle tarradiddle narration narrative anecdote allegory yarn parable fable legend plot theme allegation description statement landing

    "story" definitions

    a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program


    a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events


    a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale


    a record or narrative description of past events


    a short account of the news


    a trivial lie