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Example sentences for "similar story"

  • Dunlop refers to a similar story in the sixth tale of the Contes Amoureux de Jean Flore, written towards the end of the fifteenth century.

  • A similar story in Campbell's Tales of the West Highlands, I, 281, 'Baillie Lunnain.

  • Collet, in his Relics of Literature, has a similar story.

  • Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing is a similar story.

  • A similar story is given also in Giraldi Cinthio’s third decade of stories.

  • A similar story is told in Bartsch's Sagen, Maerchen und Gebraeuche aus Meklenburg, Vol.

  • A similar story will be found in Liebrecht, Zur Volkskunde, p.

  • A similar story is told by the Pseudo-Callisthenes of Nectanebos and Olympias.

  • A similar story is found in the IVth book of the Panchatantra, Fable 5, where Benfey compares the story of Yayati and his son Puru.

  • A similar story, told in greater detail, is in Schneller, No.

  • A similar story is also found in Grimm, No.

  • A similar story is found in Corsica, see Ortoli, p.

  • A second and even more dramatic ballad, Hildebrand and Hilde, tells a similar story.

  • An early legend tells how, when St. Polycarp was burnt alive, there arose from his ashes a white dove which flew towards heaven; and a similar story is told of Joan of Arc.

  • We may compare a similar story told of the most beautiful woman of the Knistenaux, named 'Foot of the Fawn,' who died in her childbirth, and her babe with her.

  • Thorpe quotes a similar story as current in the Netherlands,[125] and in Denmark it occurs under various forms.

  • A similar story is printed in a Selection of Latin Stories, edited by Mr. T.

  • The same publication contains a similar story, in French verse, of a boy killed by a Jew for singing 'Gaude Maria'; from MS.

  • A similar story is the subject of the 'Weddynge of Syr Gawen and Dame Ragnell,' printed by Sir F.

  • A similar story is told of the destruction of Niederdorf, in the Simmenthal.

  • I have the authority of Mr. MacRitchie for stating that a similar story is known in Scotland from the Shetlands to the Mull of Galloway, but there it is told of the Picts.

  • Some years ago I was told a similar story in Co.

  • A similar story is told of the Scotch Pechts by the Rev.

  • Hugh of Lincoln and William of Norwich are instances of a similar story.

  • A similar story is told in Japan of a man who goes into the mountains to cut wood, and watches two mysterious ladies playing at chess while seven generations of mortal men pass away.

  • His contemporary, William of Newbury, relates a similar story, but lays its scene in Yorkshire.


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