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The dew was beginning to fall as he finished the narrative of the interrupted duel in the sixteenth chapter.
However, I shall not be patient under this attack, but shall publish an answer-the narrative I mentioned to you.
Murray's handbooks in a narrative that tells us of a monster with six heads and three rows of teeth.
The contents consisted, as he had already seen, of cuttings from a newspaper, with a connecting narrative in writing.
Several of these brave sons of Ireland are yet alive, and can testify to the truth of this narrative.
A more painful narrative followed on my part, for Achilles pressed me upon the words I had let fall.
The exceeding appropriateness of this in a narrative poem dealing with departed habits and customs must be quite apparent.
It was then that Tucker poured the narrative of his wrongs into the listening ear of his ancient friend.
Any others requisite for understanding the transactions of Clive, will be mentioned in the course of the general narrative.
And it is repeatedly pointed out that the transcription has been made with the minimum of necessary narrative connection.
This is drawn from five separate narratives, all written by men who were present and took part in them.
Wonderful stories are told of what he saw and did, but no trust can be put in the narrative.
I have turned aside from the course of direct narrative to dedicate a page to the memory of this much-maligned statesman.
The historical reconstruction, found in the narrative text, is based, in a large majority of cases, upon written tradition.
The reader must not arrest the progress of the narrative by stopping here or there to ask a question.
Only a few of them are hymns in any sense, and these are narrative or reflective rather than lyric.
Of the public transactions in which I have borne a part, I have kept no narrative with a view of history.
To some of the aforementioned gatherings and dinners it will be necessary to refer again in the course of this narrative.
I should scarce have ventured this narrative, had not all the circumstances been proved in a court of justice.
There are two more old identities of the Lane Cove river which I think are worthy of notice in this narrative.
At this point in the narrative it may be desirable to pause, and endeavor to obtain a picture of the scene.
Again and again he breaks his narrative to tell of the seemingly impossible stretches of forest, stream, and mountains.
It is another Christmas Eve, ten years later than the one described in the opening chapter of this narrative.
It was a story, a narrative of some kind, which her companion was telling, and it evidently interested her.
John took it out of his hand and continued to regard it thoughtfully long after the narrative was finished.
The narrative gives the reader a strong sense of the reluctance of Moses to enter upon this new mission.
Those we found suited best (for I was in some degree her assistant) were accounts of real incidents made into narratives.
Often was the narrative interrupted by the tears and sobs of the willing listener and ready learner.
Not a single personal name occurs in the whole narrative, and there is no particular reason why there should.
This question brought about a long and minute narrative, which was barely finished when my aunt and cousin returned.
The circumstances are of such a nature, that no person can hear them without being affected at the narrative.
The latter tour led to far-reaching results, but it does not come within the scope of this personal narrative.
You will see the period of the story where my uncle leaves off his narrative, and I commence mine.
There let us leave him for the present, while we compare these narratives with others of a like description.
A meeting of the gentlemen of the county had been called for some public purpose foreign to this narrative.
I will not recite them, because they will easily suggest themselves to the readers who have followed my narrative.
In the manuscript each personage figures in the course of the narrative under from three to six different names.
You know enough about me to know that it will not be an exciting narrative or of any great historical value.
The last-named, though little known to modern readers, is one of the most remarkable narrative poems in our literature.
He seemed much less concerned over the identity of the murdered man than at the interruption of the narrative.
Some persons affirm that they cannot, and that they will not believe her narrative, because it is so improbable.
It seems to me that the simple narrative we have before us goes very deep into the heart of this matter.
That officer was Thucydides, the historian, from whose work the materials for the present narrative are taken.
Returning from this little excursion into later years, I shall take up the narrative again as revealed in the notebooks.
For it lies, with two or three other noticeable poems, quite out of the familiar track of his narrative verse.
During four centuries it has been accumulating romantic circumstances, until it is now very difficult to give its true narrative.
This did not sound so strangely to the old Doctor as it does to some who listen to this narrative.
The last he will learn, in the regular course of the narrative; as for the first, it is soon told.
As the narrative proceeds you will learn how fruitful this valley is, and how fertile is its soil.
When he had closed his narrative, I said to him: 'Judge, I hope you have bowed frequently since that day.'
Great structures may become in sort villains, as in the old Bible narrative of the origin of the various languages.
We have here an allusion to, if not a distinct quotation from, the narrative in Genesis, of Abraham's offering up of Isaac.
The old medical authors abound in narratives describing the longings of pregnant women for natural and unnatural foods.
It is significant that the eyes play an important part in his description of characters and in his narrative too.
Not only was this common among Buddhist writers, but even more surprising liberties were taken with the narrative.
The simplest story, the most objective style of narrative, will be that best fitted to answer these purposes.
Consider then, Socrates, if this narrative is suited to the purpose, or whether we should seek for some other instead.
Its place would rather have been among the narratives than the prophets, except for this aspect of it.
Whether this little code of useful doctrine was equally observed by both, will appear in the course of our narrative.
Troy stated the circumstances under which the five hundred pound note had disappeared, in clear and consecutive narrative.
The book, as it stands, is an excellent piece of narrative, but it loses somewhat by the pretence of style.
The Dialogue necessarily takes the form of a narrative, because Socrates has to be described acting as well as speaking.
Must we, therefore, reject all the coloring of the narratives, and limit ourselves to the bare facts only?
With the help of this he could write narrative that should suggest and represent the continuity of life.
It is unnecessary that I should shock the reader by entering into any detail in this part of my narrative.
This map has the same defect as his narrative; that is, it was untrue at the time he made it.
I followed it up; stepping with all the careful distrust with which certain antique narratives had inspired me.
The dramatic, therefore, while it is calculated to affect more the spectator, is inferior to the narrative in the closet.
The discussion, in fact, turns on the use of those works of imagination, which belong to the class of narratives.
Jane did as she was told, and many "says he's" and "says she's" followed in her literal narrative.
This want is supplied in the first part of the present volume, which contains the Narrative by Mad.
The narrative of them form one of the richest sources of our knowledge of this part of the Polar Sea.
And secondly, because it seems to me that the real philosophy of the facts is altogether missed in the narrative.
This did not sound so strangely to the old Doctor as it does to some who listen to his narrative.
None of the other girls had, as it happened, been present; so she had the field of narrative to herself.
The History Series of the Modern Reader's Bible presents the sacred narrative divided according to its logical divisions.
Into the details of that war it is not proposed to enter; they are outside the scope of this narrative.
Her narrative was frequently interrupted by bursts of bubbling laughter, as some amusing incident was remembered and related.
The whole narrative is as fine, manly, and explicit an account as ever was given of so interesting a transaction.
The whole narrative is as fine, manly, and explicit an account as ever was given of so interesting a transaction.
That this latter objective was seriously considered, at least by the Americans, we shall see from Revere's narrative.
It was when the narrative ended and the critical comment began that the artistic values made themselves felt.
The resultant narrative would have been different in mood and tone; but it would not have been different in structure.
The feeling for setting as the initial element in narrative hardly dates back further than the nineteenth century.
It was only during the journey that the narrative of the adventures of the two little travelers began.
Vaughan, who was a friend of his, had given him the materials, and he had composed the narrative.
The dialogue is not wholly awkward, but there is a noticeable want of proportion in the development of the narrative.
The resultant narrative would have been different in mood and tone; but it would not have been different in structure.
Dolly did not consider this was to the point, and pursued her narrative without taking notice of it.
A figure which replaces the classic chorus connects the scattered historical scenes by means of superb narrative verse.
With these sentiments the mate ended his tale, and I now proceed with the narrative of the voyage.
Yet not a word approaching more nearly to complaint than those which we have quoted above appears in his narrative.
For my part I feel constrained to believe a narrative like this, when it tells me the grave was empty.
"One of the best War Narratives that have appeared even in 'Blackwood's,' and that is saying a very great deal."
It is when we try to fit this narrative into relationship with the Episode in Beowulf that our troubles begin.
I must now pause in my narrative for a moment, and see how far we have settled in the water.
I have had frequent occasion to refer to his book, and can bear witness to the interest of the narrative.
The following narrative is an attempt of a celestial being to convey by words a conception of its glorious life.
During this narrative, for the first time throughout the trial, the prisoner had shown sign of outward emotion.
After this preface, Lady Harrington ventured to repeat to her son the narrative she had heard from Helen.