And for the other, it was even more vain to imagine that through his own unaided power he could strike down a figure of such almost legendary terror as McGurk.
Epilogue But what of the legendary gunfighter, McGurk?
There are in Russia and Siberia any number of epic songs or "bylinas," dating from legendary times to the present day, which have recently been collected by Kireyevski and others, and which already fill some ten volumes.
It is in Gildas and Nennius' Historia Britonum that we find the first mention of the legendary colonization of Britain and Ireland by refugees from Troy, and of the exploits of Arthur and the prophesies of Merlin.
Although the functions of the council in the Homeric and the legendary periods are not accurately known, its constant presence is evidence sufficient that its powers were real, essential and permanent.
The four Athenian tribes formed a society or people, which became completely autonomous in the legendary period under the name of the Athenians.
Legendary genealogies and narratives, myths and fragments of poetry, concluding with the Homeric and Hesiodic poems, make up its literary remains.
The priestly and judicial functions attached to the office of basileus tend to explain the dignity it acquired in the legendary and heroic periods.
Although an assembly of the people became established in the legendary period, with a recognized power to adopt or reject public measures submitted by the council, it is not as ancient as the council.
The insulation of their ancestors upon the island of Crete, prior to their migration in the legendary period to Lycia, may afford an explanation of their retention of descent in the female line to this late period.
This officer became a conspicuous character in the Grecian society of the heroic age, and was equally prominent in the legendary period.
Aeschylus, although dealing in this case with events in the legendary period, recognizes the council of chiefs as a necessary part of the system of government of every Grecian people.
In them speculative theology rediscovered its affinity to neo-Platonism; in other words, Christian philosophy was washed clean of its legendary alloy to become a pure cosmic speculation.
To have been brought in legendary antiquity out of Egypt was something; to have been delivered from captivity in Babylon was more; yet these signs of favour could not suffice unless they were at the same time emblems of hope.
So that all that Virgil and his readers, if they had any piety, revered in the world had been hazarded in those legendary adventures.
If it was knowledge obtained through books it would be less to be wondered at; it was knowledge transmitted by legend, and like all legendary knowledge, it had a tendency to go astray.
There are many glens as wild and as gloomy as it, but they lack the historic interest and the legendary halo that make Glendaloch dear to the archaeologist, the poet, and the dreamer.
Was he the guardian imp, the legendary Eft of Katahdin, scoffing already at us as verdant, and warning that he would make us unhappy, if we essayed to appear in demon realms and on Brocken heights without initiation?
On the completion of his attendance at the High School, he was sent to reside with some relations at Kelso; and in this interesting locality his growing attachment to the national minstrelsy and legendary lore received a fresh impulse.
It was published at Edinburgh in 1789, under the title of "The Harp, a Legendary Tale.
The persons represented consisted of but a single actor, who related some narrative of mythological or legendary interest, and a chorus, who relieved the monotony of such a performance by the interspersing of a few songs and dances.
Yet BRUCE only met with the fate which MARCO POLO had before encountered; whose faithful narrative had been contemned by his contemporaries, and who was long thrown aside among legendary writers.
At length, when the meat was thoroughly impregnated with the virus, the snake was released and allowed to crawl away.
Walther of Spain" is Walther of Aquitania, a legendarypersonage of whom the O.
Yet the story of the Fall as directly conflicts with probability, and is as devoid of trustworthy evidence, as that of the Creation or that of the Deluge, with which it forms an harmoniously legendary series.
And I am unable to discover any justification for arbitrarily picking out some of these and dubbing them historical verities, while rejecting the rest as legendary fictions.
Another muse of poetry, Sotooeri-hime, belongs to more legendary times, but was probably likewise a real person.
Wrestlers worship Nomi no Sukune, who was probably a real person, and Chinese doctors thelegendary Chinese Emperor Shinnung.
The Nihongi informs us, under thelegendary date A.
The most definite statement regarding the continued existence of men after death occurs in the Nihongi under the legendary date A.
The legendary Empress Jingo was attended on her expedition to Korea by two such sea-god mitama, one to guard her person, the other to lead the van of her army.
This was the legendary origin of the worship of the Food-Goddess in the outer shrine (Geku) of Ise.
A reference to the "divine Tortoise" in the Nihongi under the legendary date B.
Jimmu, the legendary founder of the dynasty, is represented as performing sacrifice in person.
The gift by the legendary Yamatodake to a shrine of a number of Yemishi (eastern savages) whom he had captured is to be understood in this sense.
A number of the legendary and historical personages named in these works were deified at a subsequent period.
His origin is really unknown, but he is placed provisionally among deified human beings in accordance with the accepted tradition which makes him identical with the very legendary Mikado Ojin.
My maid, and morelegendary aunt, supplied me with good store.
In an architectural frame of the Renaissance period, they represent the following legendary scenes from the life of St. Remi, the costumes belonging to the period of Francois I.
The legendary and mythical writings of the Hebrews prove unmistakably that man was first created in the lowest savage life; that his religion was the rudest worship of nature; and that his morality was that of the cannibal.
This Elohist account is defined to be "a series of parables, based, as we have said, on legendary facts, though not historically true.
The first three evangelists betray a legendary and even a mythical character.
From all this it is abundantly apparent thatlegendary traditions and experience are in perfect harmony in according a decided superiority to coats of deep and decided hues.
Though the chronicle is more legendary than historical, it is not unlikely that some good and even ancient sources were used by the first compiler, the Josippon known to us having passed through the hands of many interpolators.
Such is the legendary account of the Saite renaissance; its true history is not yet clearly and precisely known.
Two or three facts stand out from this legendary background.
The memory of this event, transferred by the popular imagination to Assur-bani-pal, appears lu the concluding portion of the legendary history of Sardanapalus.
This episode is regarded as legendaryby many modern historians.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "legendary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
