Both Uses

narrative
in
Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
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Simon Wheeler backed me into a corner and blockaded me there with his chair, and then sat down and reeled off the monotonous narrative which follows this paragraph.†
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narrative = story
He never smiled, he never frowned, he never changed his voice from the gentle flowing key to which he tuned his initial sentence, he never betrayed the slightest suspicion of enthusiasm; but all through the interminable narrative there ran a vein of impressive earnestness and sincerity, which showed me plainly that, so far from his imagining that there was anything ridiculous or funny about his story, he regarded it as a really important matter, and admired its two heroes as men of transcendent genius in 'finesse.'†

Definitions:

(1) (narrative as in: Narrative of the Life of...)
a story; or related to a story
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)