- Humorous accounts of Dot in a drunken scene
- Humorous recollections about noted case
- Rambling tales
- Short narratives
- Short personal stories
- Stories
- To rewrite Tosca, need colloquial short stories
- Nat tersely reveals gossips
- Talks idly
- Talks idly and at length
- Talks much about little
- Yarns
- Accounts
- Least changed accounts
- Narratives
- Stories
- Stories that are unlikely to be true
- Stuff of legend
- Yarns
- Big-scale movies
- Extended narrative poems
- Heroic stories
- Long detailed stories
- Long narrative poems
- Long poems
- long yarns
- Epics
- Extended accounts go up and down
- Heroic tales
- Heroic tales go back and forth
- Long detailed stories
- Long winded stories
- long yarns