Without replying I slowly turned over the page, and there saw a brief article with the same heading as the legend beneath the portrait.
May not some of the planters brought over by the Irish Society have carried this legendfrom their English home, giving it in the name Kinnagoe a local habitation?
In another Donegal legend the fairies gain possession of a bride, and would have kept her in captivity had not their plans been frustrated by a mortal.
Whether this story embodies an earlier Irish legend I do not know, but I should say that the mention of London Bridge points to its having been brought over by English settlers.
When the Lilies Return A legend of the Chinese Invasion.
Catalina of Dumaguete This is a legend of Dumaguete, the capital of the province of Negros Occidental.
This book, with its brilliant description of the court of Arthur, gave the legend a widespread popularity.
According to the legend Paris, mortally wounded by one of the arrows of Philoctetes, sought out the abandoned Oenone that she might heal him of his wound.
When the brilliant personality of Lancelot breaks into the tale, and the legend of the Holy Grail is superadded, the theme exercised an irresistible fascination upon the imagination of mediaeval Europe.
Similarly Tennyson has systematically modernised the Arthurian legend in the Idylls of the King, giving us nineteenth century thoughts in a conventional mediaeval setting.
Ellis, George, and the legend of St. Agnes' Eve, 398 n.
This legend was early crystallized in a lyric poem of Sappho now lost, and thereafter became part of the common heritage of Greek and Roman popular mythology.
Thou knowest the old legend of Robin Hood; how that he made yonder rocks his dormitory, and by way of amusement pitched or quoited huge stones at a mark on the hill just above us, being some four or five miles from his station.
At the date of our legend Kelly had been parted from the Doctor for a considerable time.
But we must not be seduced any further by these reflections; our present business concerns the legend whose strange title stands at the head of this article.
The legendruns that the Virgin gave her bronze shoe once to a poor votary and it was immediately turned into gold.
The legend runs that Agbarus, King of Edessa, sent an artist, Annanias by name, to paint our Lord's portrait.
Yes," said Don Luis, "and a legend so persistent that it influences us to this day and that not one of you has escaped the obsession of the miraculous.
It was Elfride who told him the legend of the God-Stone in the letters which she wrote to him at Pontivy.
It must needs be so," said Patrice Belval, "seeing that the reality left so miraculous a legend in the isle of Sarek and even all over Brittany.
Hergemont, who told him the legend of Sarek and the apprehension which we were beginning to feel in spite of everything; it was the day after Maguennoc went away.
He thinks that Vorski is an escaped prisoner who picked up the legend of Sarek and, in order to get hold of the God-Stone, proceeded to carry out the prophecy touching it.
I have long known the Bohemian legend which speaks of a miraculous stone that was once removed from the side of a hill; and, when I was travelling in Bohemia, I saw the hole left by the stone.
Could we unfold to him the awful legend in connexion with it, of which we are almost the exclusive depositaries, the cap so lightly lying on his brow would be projected upwards to the roof by the instantaneous starting of his hair.
She then told the legend of Clopton Hall, Warwickshire, as she had heard it in schooldays, and Howitt incorporated the letter in that book, which was published in 1840.
There Heracles (so ran the legend which Pindar has introduced in one of his finest odes), when he had conquered Elis and slain its king Augeas, consecrated a temenos and instituted games in honour of his victory.
Initiated according to legend by Tarquinius Priscus, the Ludi Magni were originally a votive feast to Capitoline Jupiter, promised by the general when he took the field, and performed on his return from the annual campaign.
The legend according to which Galileo, rising from his knees after repeating the formula of abjuration, stamped on the ground, and exclaimed, "Eppur si muove!
Maria Maggiore, Rome, relating to the legendof the foundation of that church; their date is probably 1308.
The history of county Galway is exceedingly obscure, and nearly every one of its striking physical features carries its legend with it.
The legend is that they are the souls of unbaptized children wandering through the air till the day of judgment.
He lives in eastern history and legend as the hero who stemmed once for all the tide of European conquest in Asia.
A well-known legend relates that the emperor, from window of his palace once saw the dark sails of the Vikings and wept at the thought of the misery which these daring pirates would some day inflict upon his realm.
Legend told how Odin killed a mighty giant, whose body was cut into pieces to form the world: the earth was his flesh, the water his blood, the rocks his bones, and the heavens his skull.
Here were three hundred and sixty idols and a small, black stone (probably a meteorite), which legend declared had been brought from heaven.
When the candidates for admission to the secret rites were worked up to a state of religious excitement, they entered a brilliantly lighted hall and witnessed a passion play dealing with the legend of Demeter.
According to the legend Cyrus the Great, having made Croesus prisoner, intended to burn him on a pyre.
The battle destroyed once for all the legend of Spartan invincibility.
The first coin to bear the legend "Great Britain".
The obverse bears a representation of 'Louis the Great the Most Christian King' the reverse contains a legend meaning "Heresy Extinguished.
Look up in an encyclopedia the legend of the "Wandering Jew.
I pointed out to him that what he had heard was probably a legend arising from a tradition among the people which dated back to the time when one of the extinct parasitic volcanic cones was in activity.
Sky-High promised to tell her its legend at some time when her mother should be present.
And yet again, it may be that by that time, not only in the Western baronies but through the length and breadth of Ireland, both song and story and legend will be living again on the lips and in the hearts of the people.
The story which it tells is among the finest in that great repertory of legend which, since Ireland began to take count of her own possessions, has become familiar to the world.
Let it be understood that this legend is only one of a cycle, and that the song which I wrote down was only the barest fraction of James Kelly's repertory.
Concerning the origin of the Paikara river, a grotesque legend was narrated to us.
Marriage is always celebrated at the house of the bridegroom, as there is a legend that a Rajah belonging to the Toreya caste had a son, who was taken to the house of his bride elect, and there murdered.
There is a variant of the legend of the exodus, told by the Asaris (carpenters), which is worth narrating.
They bear on one side the Malayalam legend Sri Padmanabha, and on the other a chank shell.
The Tottiyans have attached to them a class of beggars called Pichiga vadu, concerning whose origin the following legend is narrated.
The following legend is narrated concerning the origin of the Variyars.
The following legend is current regarding the origin of the Thanda Pulayans.
The following legend is current, to account for the division of the Tottiyans into two sections.
The followinglegend concerning the Yanadis is narrated by Mackenzie.
Walkelyn's tower fell in and ruined the choir in 1107, legend says as a protest against the body of Rufus being placed beneath it.
Legend has it that the monastery originated in the days of St. Augustine, but of this there is no proof, though it is certain that a religious house nourished here for nearly a century before the Benedictine abbey was established.
About the middle of the eighteenth century the Druid temple legend began to gain ground and many great men gave support to their interpretation; it is not yet an exploded idea.
In the mist of legend and tradition that surrounds the towns and hamlets of the Plain the origin of Amesbury is lost.
A legend used to be current in the Forest that the ponies were descended from those landed from the wrecked ships of the Spanish Armada, but there is a limit to what we may believe of this wonderful fleet.
Another legend has it that the hill is not full of men but of gold, the treasure house of the fairies, but this is a belief that will only appeal to grosser minds.
This is a widespread legend and belongs to other parts of England besides Somerset.
The legend was that in those upper reaches you might be divine; but you were much likelier to be ridiculous.
The legend of Kronborg, the artist, fills Tillie's life; she feels rich and exalted in it.
Ancient legendtells that Phaëton, the son of Apollo, being allowed one day to drive his father's chariot, guided it so carelessly that the sun scorched the whole earth and set many of its cities on fire.
There is some resemblance between the manner in which Brentano has dramatised Slavonic legend in this play, and the Polish Romanticist Slowacki's treatment (in Lilla Weneda, for instance) of similar themes.
The White Chief, A Legend of Northern Mexico, by Captain Mayne Reid.
Chance alone guided our steps to the fair valley of San Ildefonso,-- chance threw in our way one who remembered its legend--the legend of the White Chief.
These questions were asked, because he who narrated the legend had remained for some time silent.
Personally I am inclined to discredit the local legend that all male children born of white parents in Ceylon come into the world with abnormal strength of the right wrist, and a slight inherited callosity of the left elbow.
He shows that the Turks are absolutely without any talent for trade and industry, and that the legend about the dishonesty of the Armenians and Greeks as opposed to the honesty of the Turks has no foundation in fact of any sort.
Joan of Arc has glided from the luminous haze of legend and romance into the clearer light of history.
After a longer pause, the Spanish Jew from Alieant begins "a story in the Talmud old," "The Legendof Rabbi Ben Levi.
The legend of Thor's hammer, the thunderbolt, and the probability of the primitive hammer being a stone, adds plausibility to this derivation.
The chief authority for the legend of Hamlet is Saxo Grammaticus, who devotes to it parts of the third and fourth books of his Historia Danica, written at the beginning of the 13th century.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "legend" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
