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Example sentences for "short stories"

  • His appeal, however, had little effect, and on his father's refusal to increase his allowance, the young student cut down his wine bill in order to have more money to spend on shooting.

  • The Duke of Brunswick in his manifesto was very severe.

  • The great novel was followed by a collection of short stories, Tristan (1903), from which we have selected Tonio Kroeger.

  • The result was a morbid novel, "Fanshawe," and a series of short stories, none of which attracted especial attention or gave indication of more than average talent.

  • Musset, again, not ill at short stories, is far better at short plays.

  • Thenceforward Balzac, though hardly ever faultless except in short stories, was almost always great, and showed what may be called a diffused greatness, to which there are few parallels in the history of the novel.

  • He made his earliest fame as a writer of short stories of Indian military life.

  • It is a collection of short stories on East End life, but they are told with that real realism of observation of which Mr Morrison has set the fashion.

  • Magazines have especially stimulated the production of short stories, which show how much technique their authors have learned from Poe.

  • He is an unusually successful writer of short stories, of essays like those in Addison's Spectator, and of popular history and biography.

  • This list includes single short stories, collections of short stories, textbooks, and a few continuous narratives based on short stories previously published in magazines.

  • She has small power of construction: even Pembroke may be resolved into a series of short stories.

  • The same poetic glamour she threw over all the work that now poured in swift profusion from her pen: Sir Rohan's Ghost, Azarian, and a score of short stories in the Atlantic and Harper's and other periodicals.

  • More recently, he has become interested in the writing of short stories.

  • COMER, accomplished critic, essayist, and writer of short stories, was educated at Vassar, and afterwards engaged in journalistic work in the Middle West and California.

  • Kipling's popularity gave a great impetus to the writing of short stories of modern life.

  • You say that Mr. Gouverneur Morris believes that except Poe almost no writer before our generation could write short stories.

  • There is always much interest in short stories," he said, "among authors, and in the great body of readers.

  • Irvin Cobb comes here from Louisville, Kentucky, and gets an intimate knowledge of the city, and puts that knowledge into his short stories.

  • My theory does not wholly account for the fact (no theory wholly accounts for any fact), and I own that the same objections would lie from the reader against a number of short stories in a magazine.

  • He has not been a very prolific writer--eight romances, half a dozen volumes of short stories, and a few plays.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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