Stories-the in a sentence

Moreover, our third, fourth, and fifth stories-the floor of the latter just above the ridge pole, its ceiling just beyond the stars-were, for all purposes of use and comfort, ready for occupation.

But it flashed across him suddenly like an inspiration: If her story were the simplest of all stories-the direct, rather brutal, love affair of a village boy and girl-would not she, naturally given to surrender, be forced this time to the very antithesis of that young animal amour which had brought on her such, sharp consequences?

He had heard terrible stories-the kind of stories that hardened the fighting spirit of German soldiers-about the treatment German civilians had received in France.

If we do not discover that some young Frank or Jack or Bill was the brains behind these achievements, I shall wonder what has become of the ingenuity of the plotter of the series stories-the "plotter" I say advisedly, for it is a known fact that many of these stories are first outlined by a writer whose name makes books sell, the outlines then being filled in by a company of underlings who literally write to order.