Perhaps he even met Boccaccio, and it is more than likely that he met Petrarch, another great Italian poet who also retold one of the tales of The Decameron.
It appears also in Zerbino the Savage, a most elaborated Neapolitan tale retold by Laboulaye in his Last Fairy Tales; a tale full of humor, wit, and satire that would delight the cultured man of the world.
He was among his own particular friends, the men before whom he could speak seriously or foolishly without fear of being misunderstood or of having what he said retold and spoiled in the telling.
Stedman seated himself in the long grass in front of the King, and with many revolving gestures of his arms, and much pointing at Gordon, and profound nods and bows, retold what Gordon had dictated.
Told and retold with an air of truth, it became the foundation on which was based the Schwatka-Gilder search of King William Land.
As a record of man's heroic endeavor and of successful accomplishment at the cost of life itself, it should be retold from time to time.
The story is retoldby permission of the New York Tribune.
Each one while indicating that the story was a follow-up retold the principal incidents in the fire.
Later in the story the principal facts of the original story are retold as if they were new and unknown.
A thousand years ago, or some such matter, they may, indeed, have been frequently retold by the firesides of Europe, though now they are practically unknown.
How early this took place cannot be stated, but long enough before the fourteenth century to allow the passage of the compound type to France by that time, when it was retold by Gobius with a good deal of mutilation in his Scala Celi.
The result of Browning's purpose is a series of monologues, in which the same story is retold nine different times by the different actors in the drama.
Southworth Island of Appledore Aldon Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson King Arthur and His Knights Retold Last Days of Pompeii Lytton Life of Kit Carson Edward S.
His life and surprising adventures retold in words of one syllable for young people.
Note: "The Herd Boy and the Weaving Maiden" is retold after an oral source.
They have been retold simply, with no changes in style or expression beyond such details of presentation which differences between oriental and occidental viewpoints at times compel.
Peabody, is especially valuable, not only for its fine versions of many of the more interesting myths, but because it supplements the dozen retold by Hawthorne in his Wonder-Book and Tanglewood Tales.
The stories in Malory are retold in a simple and direct style that can be read easily by children in the fifth grade.
So, in this instance departing from the plan of giving only authentic copies of the tales here reprinted, the excellent retold versions of two Japanese stories are given as made by Teresa Peirce Williston in her Japanese Fairy Tales.
The following selections are taken from Stories of Don Quixote retoldby H.
The following is the Androcles story as retold by Jacobs.
It is this poetic mythology that furnishes the basis of allusion in literature and in art, and which is retold for us in the various versions for modern readers.
Many of his Canterbury tales are miniature epics, borrowed in general from other writers, but retold with a charm all his own.
The few stories here given are retold in the language of to-day.
The following stories have been retold from her text.
HOW ROBIN HOOD WAS PAID HIS LOAN Retold by Mary Macleod Twelve months had come and gone since Robin Hood lent four hundred pounds to the poor knight to redeem his land, and now the day had arrived when he had promised to pay back the money.
The chronicles retold in simple English by Sidney Lanier.
Those yarns of the Shawled Woman, have been told and retold so many years now, they've grown way beyond their first facts, if there ever was any truth to 'em.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "retold" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: doubled; duplicated; plagiarized; reiterate; repeated
