“Queuing theory can be used to model the waiting queue at a bank teller or the flow of cars at the entrance of a bridge.”
“The incidence between the ferocious elephant Nalagiri and the Buddha is symbolic and the intervening time is the comprehension of the teller and the listener.”
“Is a fib really a fib if the teller is unaware that he is uttering an untruth?”
“The children sat and listened intently to the telling of the riveting story.”
tell
A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold.
“Every effort to locate either earlier tellings of these two tales has failed, a real-world Bluebeard who murdered wives in his castle is a post-Perrault creation.”
“In some tellings, wounds received by one wearing the scabbard did not bleed at all.”
“Further tellings refine this aspect even more, with the two plants being said to have been hazel and honeysuckle.”