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1668 R. L'Estrange tr. F. de Quevedo Visions (new ed.) vii. 315 Where are the Story-Mongers? The Masters of the Faculty of Lying? That Report more than they Hear [etc.].

1748 S. Richardson Let. 15 Dec. (1964) 116 The Inattention of the Story-Lovers and Amusement-Seekers will not suffer half of those Lessons..to be observed.

1845 C. Dickens Chimes i. 1 It is desirable that a story-teller and a story-reader should establish a mutual understanding as soon as possible.

1889 Spectator 9 Nov. 640/2 Never raising him above his true level, which was that of an artist in story-weaving.

1890 E. S. Hartland Sci. Fairy Tales (1891) i. 2 The outlines of a story-plot among savage races are wilder and more unconfined.

1903 C. R. Coleridge C. M. Yonge: Life & Lett. vi. 163 Miss Dyson had generous insight enough to know that her friend was a far better story-wright than herself.

1904 J. Weston in Romania 33 342 Remnants of a once popular and widely-spread story-group connected with the deeds of Gawain and his kin.

1951 L. P. Hartley My Fellow Devils vii. 53 For she was always ‘Margaret’ to the story-hunters—assuming for a day or two the prerogative of the Princess.

1982 R. Brown & D. Bennett Anthol. Canad. Lit. in Eng. I. 534 A larger story-pattern that frequently appears in Canadian fiction and non-fiction, that of man's relationship to the garden of Eden.

1999 Time Out N.Y. 2 Dec. 153/4 Tumbleweeds is pretty conventional, sweet but slight, with an unfortunate predilection for story-advancing coincidences.

2010 Observer 21 Mar. 39/2 The blogosphere has introduced a new and disruptive force of fact-checkers, claim-debunkers, story-breakers, rumour-mongers and cyber-satirists.