Philip seemed quite at ease with him, and was telling him a rambling story about snakes in India.

"It's such a long, rambling story," said the girl.

On waking he told a rambling story of "little red people living in a squat white tower."

It was a long and rambling story, and it went on for some time.

He was doing so now, sitting at the table, listening to the rambling story of a man in uniform.

This is a long, rambling story with a useful punchline.

I tell you," and he began a long, rambling story.

"Because you don't tell long pointless rambling stories about your life and times," I explained, as if it were obvious.

She had held him spellbound with her long, rambling stories right up until the day before she had died.

The Cardinal watched Jamie in the bathroom mirror as he told the long, rambling story.