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• Venice, with its unique city and its impressive story
• The four great monarchies make the subject of ancient story.
• The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
• Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
• The book tells the story of two roommates.
• You’ve been telling stories again, haven’t you?
• The lower story of the market-house was open on all four of its sides to the public square.
• Our shop was on the fourth story of the building, so we had to install an elevator.
• What will she do without being able to watch her stories?
• [...] who is so unread or so uncatechis'd in story, that hath not heard of many sects refusing books as a hindrance, and preserving their doctrine unmixt for many ages, only by unwritt'n traditions.
• What's the story with him?
• I tried it again; same story, no error message, nothing happened.
• It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high.
• How worthy he is I will leave to appear hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing.