The stories gave the earlier works a tight, almost throttling energy.
Unusual for dialect tales of the period, the stories give a realistic picture of the pre-Civil War South, including descriptions of penurious, brutish masters.
The stories give you bits of what you want — biography, and musical and social history — but just enough to sketch in portraits of Smith and her era.
The stories give abundant information whether they are used for background for a lecture or class activity, or the starting point for a research paper or more in-depth discussion of some aspect of the course material.
Some readers found fault with Mr. Shane's writing of the story, given his involvement.
One of our detectives here takes issue even with the story given out about why the number was changed.
Both differ from the story given here.
We can avoid this paradox by introducing some "realistic" considerations, not mentioned in the story given, as we can for St . Petersburg
We made the decision to refrain from publishing the story, given the scarce information available at the time.
The story given was that a large cannon, which the website claimed was colloquially called Humpty Dumpty, was strategically placed on the wall.
