story

Related to story: short story, funny story
See:
  • (but) that's another story
  • (it's/that's the) story of my life
  • (that's a) likely story
  • a cock and bull story
  • a cock-and-bull story
  • a fish story
  • a hard-luck story
  • a likely story
  • a shaggy-dog story
  • a sob story
  • a tall story
  • a tall tale
  • a whole nother story
  • a/one side of the picture
  • a/one side of the story
  • a/one side of the story/picture
  • another story
  • Banbury story
  • Banbury story of a cock and a bull
  • bedtime story
  • break a story
  • break the news
  • break the/a story
  • cock and bull story
  • cockamamie story
  • cock-and-bull story
  • cool story, bro
  • cover story
  • don't give me that story
  • don't hand me that story
  • don't let the facts get in the way of a good story
  • end of story
  • every picture tells a story
  • fairy tale
  • fish story
  • fish story, a
  • hard luck
  • inside story
  • it's a long story
  • it's an old story
  • it's the old story
  • it's the same old story
  • it's the story of my life
  • land (something)
  • likely story
  • long story short
  • make a long story short
  • make a long story short, to
  • old story
  • old story, an
  • pitch (one) a line
  • pitch (one) a story
  • pitch (one) a yarn
  • pitch a line/story/yarn
  • same old story
  • same old story, the
  • scare story
  • shaggy dog story
  • shaggy-dog story
  • so the story goes
  • so the story goes...
  • sob story
  • spin (one) a story
  • story of (one's) life
  • story of my life, that's the
  • story of my life, the
  • story stock
  • tall story
  • tell a different story
  • tell a different, another, etc. tale/story
  • tell another story
  • tell its own story
  • tell its own tale/story
  • tell the same story (of something)
  • tell the same tale (of something)
  • tell the same tale/story
  • that's my story and I'm sticking to it
  • that's the story of my life
  • the story goes (that)
  • There are two sides to every question
  • there are two sides to every story
  • to cut a long story short
  • to make a long story short
  • top story
  • upper story
References in classic literature
"Well, anyway, it's a perfectly elegant story, Anne, and will make you famous, of that I'm sure.
Now, Diana, tell me candidly, do you see any faults in my story?"
"Why, that is where the humor comes in, and it's one of the best parts of the whole story," said Anne.
Anne of The Island
"Of course," said the Story Girl hastily, not wishing to have Dan turned against our project, "if all the rest of you want it I'll go in for it too.
"But," said Cecily timidly, "that will leave out Peter and the Story Girl and Sara Ray, just as if they didn't have a share in it.
"Oh!" Cecily threw a deprecating glance at the Story Girl and Felicity.
The Golden Road
Princess Ozma, whom I love as much as my readers do, is again introduced in this story, and so are several of our old friends of Oz.
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
If it had occurred to me before it would have perhaps done away with the existence of this Author's Note; for, indeed, the same remark applies to every story in this volume.
"Falk" -- the second story in the volume -- offended the delicacy of one critic at least by certain peculiarities of its subject.
The editor, who obviously had read the story, might have perceived that for himself.
Typhoon
Again as lights on the human story I have liked to read such books of medicine as have fallen in my way, and I seldom take up a medical periodical without reading of all the cases it describes, and in fact every article in it.
Of course, there are terrible longueurs in it, and you do get tired of the same story told over and over from the different points of view, and yet it is such a great story, and unfolded with such a magnificent breadth and noble fulness, that one who blames it lightly blames himself heavily.
Of other modern poets I have read some things of William Morris, like the "Life and Death of Jason," the "Story of Gudrun," and the "Trial of Guinevere," with a pleasure little less than passionate, and I have equally liked certain pieces of Dante Rossetti.
My Literary Passions
In that story I had not gone back to the Archipelago, I had only turned for another look at it.
Looking through that story lately I had the material impression of sitting under a large and expensive umbrella in the loud drumming of a heavy rain-shower.
Tales of Unrest