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Walker confessed to a tiny twinge of disappointment at this point in his narrative.
Pembroke listened to his father's narrative with mute and, as it proceeded, amazed attention.
We shall not detain the narrative to dwell on the particulars of the council.
Our narrative now leads us to one of these patrician abodes of the first class.
While I was reading the tragic narrative on the tombstone, two women approached.
A call from the mate interrupted the gory narrative, and Harrison went aft.
Gives her a narrative of all that has befallen her since her last.
These opinions seem too contemptuous and inimical to a narrative which yields many valuable lessons.
I am here, in a lonely mountain home, writing the narrative of my European experience.
It is a French combination of Cervantes and Dante, in an Oriental and bizarre narrative.
At first Marta listened rigidly, but as the narrative proceeded her interest grew.
On this slight thread of narrative, Johnson strung his thoughts with great felicity.
Ishtar, the narrative tells us, hearkened to the fervent words of the king.
Among these was Departmental Ditties from which the following narrative poem is taken.
They are too racial, and in parts too pictorial to be dissected in narrative style.
The first cursory reading of the narrative may suggest some such unworthy impression.
These notes, in order to make them more readable, have been put in narrative form.
Driscoll from the personal narrative he had entered upon with such evident self-satisfaction.
When I received my despatches I could have fancied I was reading a fabulous narrative.
It is difficult at times to decide whether a story is a monologue or a mere narrative.
Was that prediction ascribed to Nathan, of their defilement, without any corresponding narrative?
"There's the riddle of the corked bottle," said the trader, interrupting his narrative.
After this narrative he untied our canoe, and we continued our ascent of the river.
To introduce paragraphs of explanation would interrupt the narrative, besides lengthening the book.
With what inexpressible astonishment were the narratives of these deeds heard and perused!
Either his whole narrative is a hallucination or only these few parts of it are.
The narrative is continuously and plausibly interesting, the incidents of great dramatic effectiveness.
I have endeavored to reject from the narrative all that is extraneous to the subject.
In my reduced and afflicted state his cryptic method of narrative irritated me.
In the sequel it is necessary to contract, and needless to quote, their circumstantial narrative.
Her narrative was almost childish in its utterance, but childlike in its insight.
The display of his acquisitions is curiously mingled with the narrative of his emotions.
Their narrative, however, formed a most spicy chapter in the annals of official scandal.
The composition of this narrative ought not to be committed rashly to improper hands.
The following narratives emanate from an eminent Russian, who is devoted to the Allies.
It should be understood that the narrative is made purely from the French standpoint.
In this artless narrative we may discover more than the embryo of Robinson Crusoe.
Of the proceedings of this expedition, the following is a succinct and circumstantial narrative.
He sucked meditatively on his cigar for a few moments before resuming his narrative.
The narrative was broken off short by a cry of jubilee in the court.
As the Sepoy reached this point in his narrative he paused with startling abruptness.
The result is what may be called a descriptive, narrative, expository, or argumentative style.
There is little to show that the witnesses were adroitly led into their narratives.
He rose for a moment, replenished the cups, and went on with his narrative.
He required little entertaining when he called, developing an unsuspected faculty for narrative conversation.
After finishing the terrifying narrative the painter's widow appeared relieved of a great burden.
The glory of France touched its zenith at the period when our narrative opens.
Catherine's have been so uneventful as to be noticed only by a blank in our narrative.
The narrative of Jephthah's daughter lays especial stress on the sanctity of the vow.
Only do not take my narrative for a fable, however strangely it may sound.
Interrupt a narrative with moral precepts, and they will find you a wearisome narrator.
One of those who hurled the Javelin is specially mentioned in the sacred narrative.
Verdant Green from coming to an untimely end at this portion of the narrative.
The two narratives are irreconcilable, and where the truth lies is impossible to determine.
The earliest Scriptural narrative presents to our view, with considerable distinctness, three main objects.
In the foregoing narratives it will be noticed that hospital and shrine were adjacent.
Since her narrative the sorceress was no longer a mere witch in his eyes.
The narrative proceeds from verse to verse along the line of the entire dispensation.
Since her narrative the sorceress was no longer a mere witch in his eyes.
This strange and wondrous circumstance remains an enigma to the end of the narrative.
The felicities of expression scattered over the narrative, would alone reward its patient perusal.
It is strange that Defoe did not embellish his narrative with documents so vivid.
We need not follow Luigi in his narrative, nor record his uncle's comments thereon.
Finally, with a swift frown, she plunged into narrative again, obviously leaving a hiatus.
The narrative of personal experience is interesting, without trace of straining for sensational effect.
It is based simply on her narrative, controlled by the accounts of other chroniclers.
Your narrative is one of shipwreck, and so far there is nothing in it to betray.
Something more may be gleaned from the narratives of royal visits to the universities.
Of clear and trenchant, though metallic, narrative and expository style he is a master.
The blunder is very characteristic, and helps to show the accuracy of our narrative.
The narrative was broken off short by a cry of jubilee in the court.
When the afflicting narrative was closed, the young man entered on his own.
I have been solicited by very many friends, to give my narrative to the public.
These representations and their refutation are here given as a necessary element in this narrative.
It is not for me to anticipate her startling and thrilling narratives on this subject.
They gave a touch of reality to an otherwise over-hairy and unconvincing narrative of conspiracy.
These incidents, which are historical verities, are wrought up into a narrative of absorbing power.
In embellishing the narrative at this point, their imagination has been allowed a free course.
While I continue the narrative, kindly see if you can discover any sign of blemish.
And even his narratives of adventure were more or less fragmentary and imperfect in detail.
I exclaimed, when the Dutchman made a momentary pause at this point of his narrative.
As the renegade finished his narrative, we sat and smoked for some time in silence.
They bear evidence of a later invention, and do not belong legitimately to the narrative.
Undoubtedly the easiest means of inculcating a detail of narrative is to repeat it again and again.
Her breath has grown shorter, and her narrative more disjointed; but she perseveres.
When the afflicting narrative was closed, the young man entered on his own.
The defects were pronounced to be obscurity of narrative and sameness of image and metaphor.
Next to tales in respect of being easily remembered, come narratives of detached striking acts.
This verification was so interesting, that I give the narrative in a slightly condensed form.
Adventures with wild animals and skirmishes with Indians add interest to the narrative.
A stirring tale full of the spice of adventure, breathless in interest, skillful in narrative.
When the afflicting narrative was closed, the young man entered on his own.
At this part in the narrative Bimbo was seen to gaze apprehensively over his shoulder.
"Indisposition," says he at one point in the narrative, "prevented observation for some time past."
Where in the language can you find a stronger, more condensed and more restrained narrative?
I make no apology for inserting these apparently trivial details in so condensed a narrative.
His version was brief and unadorned, as was the way with his narratives.
Jones winced, and her husband abruptly checked the particular flow of his narrative.
In embellishing the narrative at this point, their imagination has been allowed a free course.
The quaint narrative was written by the chronicler who accompanied the expedition in person.