Word: teller
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Best general references: U. S. Revised Statutes 1878, Sects. 4692 to 4791: Pension laws in Statutes at large, Vols. 20-26; Reports of Coms. of Pensions and Sec'y of Interior, especially for 1885, 1888 and 1889, in House Exec. Docs.; Speeches of Senators Plumb, Davis, Ingalls, Hoar, and Teller in Cong. Record 1889-90 p.p. 1796 to 6385 passim; Republican Nat'l, platform for 1888 in Tribune Almanac...
...College Kodaks," the second and fourth are the best, the former being the brighter of the two. It would have been better, perhaps, for mother Advocate's reputation as a teller of stories had she omitted the fifth Kodak, - a Travers story that has been for some of us coeval with Mother Goose...
...Eggleston's "Faith Doctor;" a story "There were Ninety and Nine," by the new edit of Harper's Weekly, Richard Harding Davis; the conclusion of Hopkinson Smith's "Colonel Carter of Cartersville;" and "A Race Romance," the last of a series of three short tales, by that delightful story-teller, Maurice Thompson...
...Monthly for November opens with eight chapters of a serial by Stockton, "The House of Martha." Neither Martha nor House appears and the story so far has neither apparent subject nor object. It is told in the first person and concerns itself with a hired listener for the story-teller's stories and an amanuensis with a malarial husband. Stockton is no longer in his prime and this story threatens to be far from prime...
...early literature of Iceland was written in old Norse prose and poetry, the latter being subdivided into the poetry of the Edda and Skald or court poetry. The Icelandic poet was not a poet in the strict sense of the word, but a story teller who wandered about reciting tales of Scandinavian origin. The Saga, the heroic tradition of the Norsemen, is divided in three periods: the heroic period up to 1030; the period of development from 1030 to 1100, and a third period from 1100 to 1200, during which all these legends were written down. In speaking...