Their separatenarratives we may reject as legendary.
The lapse of time is marked by periods of twelve years, five of which constitute a "grand cycle;" but in historical narratives the dates are calculated from the accession of the reigning monarch.
One of these narratives is extremely curious, as showing the intermixture of earth and heaven in the legendary notions of the time.
The Scriptural theory; according to which all mythological legends are derived from the narrativesof Scripture, though the real facts have been disguised and altered.
The adventures recorded of them in the following stories rest on the same authority as other narratives of the "Age of Fable," that is, of the poets who have told them.
It is to the corrections which Ogier was at that time enabled to make to the popular narratives of his exploits that we are indebted for the perfect accuracy and trustworthiness of all the details of our own history.
The resemblance in name between these two islands in the New Hebrides, and Santa Cruz Groups has been a frequent cause of misconception in references to the narratives of the early navigators.
So thoroughly has my mind become imbued with their superstitions, that at times I find difficulty in reconciling myself to the plain matter-of-fact narratives of the men of my own creed and colour.
At a signal from a venerated chief, their martial narratives were dropped, and all retired to their seats.
In some cases the narratives published were anonymous, and only authenticated by witnesses who privately testified to the newspaper-editors their accuracy.
Indeed, in the whole scene of the courtyard, as sketched for us in the varying but not discordant narratives of the Evangelists, we may detect the vibrations of constant movement and the ripple-marks of intense excitement.
And since the visits of the Apostles would be necessarily brief, it would only be a natural and general wish that some permanent record should be made of their narratives and teaching.
As we have already seen, it was the manifold narratives of anonymous writers that first moved him to take up the pen of the historian; and to those narratives we doubtless owe something of the peculiar cast and colouring of St. Luke's story.
From the narratives of St. Matthew and St. Mark it would appear as if Jesus now experienced a sudden change of feeling.
The whole of the narratives of the Crucifixion in the Gospels avoid using the word 'death.
Scripture narratives are remarkable for the frankness with which they tell the faults of the best men.
The narratives of Scripture are representative because they are so penetrating and true.
In the mean time, they continued to endure a succession of the most vigorous assaults from the Crusaders, of which very marvelous tales are told in the romantic narratives of those times.
The two sources from which the narratives have been derived are, in many respects, contradictory of each other.
Picturesque narratives have been handed down to us relating the gallant manner in which they acquitted themselves.
One of the most fascinating of the narratives of this period is Paul Kane's Wanderings of an Artist among the Indians of North America.
We might more properly designate it as a History of History--a criticism of historical narratives and an investigation of their truth and credibility.
We much prefer the narratives we find in old Tschudi; all is more naïve and natural than when appearing in the garb of a fictitious and affected archaism.
These original historians did, it is true, find statements and narratives of other men ready to hand; one person cannot be an eye-and-ear witness of everything.
If he closely imitates the narratives which he has before rendered successful, he is doomed to "wonder that they please no more.
His narratives were fictitious only in the sense that the facts did not happen; but that trifling circumstance was to make no difference to the mode of writing them.
You cannot follow the thread of most of his narratives with any particular interest in the fate of the chief actors.
Where the object is rather to appeal to our sympathies than to give elaborate analyses of character, or complicated narratives of incident, it is as well to let the persons speak for themselves.
It was then that he wrote lives of highwaymen and dissenting divines, and that he patched up any narrativeswhich he could get hold of, and gave them the shape of authentic historical documents.
The Author never appears in these self-narratives (for so they ought to be called, or rather Autobiographies) but the Narrator chains us down to an implicit belief in every thing he says.
These narratives along with the great changes he has seen, were carefully recorded in the mind of Edward, the only one of this group now alive.
This he will do because he claims: "Your life is in your hand" and tells these narratives as proof: "In 1886 when the present Atlantic Coast Line Railroad was called the S.
As a literary critic also Charizi ranks high, and there is much skill in the manner in which he links together, round the person of his hero, the various narratives which compose the Tachkemoni.
He compelled the apologists to defend the biblical narratives in detail, and thus implicitly acknowledge the tribunal of reason and knowledge to which they were summoned.
The ladies listened, and smiled at the tender narratives of the poet.
The public, without waiting to think or even to inquire after the truth, instantly selected as genuine the most false and the most flagrant of the fifty libellous narratives that were circulated of the transaction.
The resemblances of sundry fundamental narratives and ideas in our own sacred books with those of Buddhism were especially suggestive.
More and more evident became the sources from which many ideas and narratives in our own sacred books had been developed.
Of course, the reader will note how these two narratives yield each other mutual corroboration.
Certainly, if there were not two or three narratives which have an air of veracity and dependableness, bearing out the belief to some slight extent, I should not have noticed it here.
Many of these narratives are given by eye-witnesses of the facts they vouch for--men of honesty and probity, having no object to gain by deception, and whose accounts have been confirmed by other witnesses equally trustworthy.
He could do this the better because of the power and fame of his work in politics, and because of his constant profession of a devout belief in a beneficent God, on whom he declared the Bible narratives to be a libel.
Total fiction will account for anything; but no stretch of exaggeration that has any parallel in other histories, no force of fancy upon real circumstances, could produce the narratives which we now have.
These four narratives are confined to the history of the Founder of the religion, and end with his ministry.
The Gospels which bear the names of Mark and Luke, although not the narratives of eye-witnesses, are, if genuine, removed from that only by one degree.
The meekness of Christ during his last sufferings, which is conspicuous in the narratives of the first three evangelists, is preserved in that of Saint John under separate examples.
This is a coincidence between writers in whose narratives there is no imitation, but great diversity.
From any care or design in Saint John to make his narrative tally with the narratives of other evangelists, it certainly did not arise, for no such design appears, but the absence of it.
One may indeed wonder if his intensity of feeling on the matter was not responsible for his accepting as bona fide narratives those which his common sense should have made him reject.
With unwearying patience and absolute confidence in their cause they collected the testimonies for their narratives and then said to those who laughed: Here are the facts; what are you going to do about them?
The gospels were full of narratives of men possessed with evil spirits who had been freed by the invocation of God.
In 1851 Thomas Wright brought out his Narratives of Sorcery and Magic, a work at once entertaining and learned.
The story is almost an exact duplicate of earlier narratives of possession.
When taken, however, in connection with the other resemblances it gives cumulative force to the supposition that the writer of the Huntingdon pamphlet had gone to the narratives of the Hopkins cases for his sources.
He had been furnished the narratives which he used by "honest and honourable friends.
Aubrey, the "delitescent" antiquarian and Will Wimble of his time, still credited witchcraft, as he credited all sorts of narratives of ghosts and apparitions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "narratives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
