I almost dreaded to hear his tales of the havoc he had wrought on the Union army.
The page of history is blotted o'er With tales of bloodshed.
Would that I could tell One-half the tales of brave self-sacrifice Which those who founded Montreal had shown, Ere yet the name of Canada was known.
There is an old German saw, which reads that any one that goes travelling can tell a good many tales afterward.
Hence the disappointment, if you have read travelers’ talesof the lotus bloom.
In winter’s tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woful ages long ago.
I do not think that in all the tragic tales of old time there is one more lamentable than this of lady Beatrice.
Oddly enough--Mama began Really to feel quite fond of Ann, Now that there was no virtuous Jane To carry tales and to complain.
How interesting Ann's tales had been About that circus she had seen.
For instance, British seamen, believing half the tales they had heard, had come to believe that German naval gunnery was something almost superhuman.
He had been found in London, at the Explorers' Club in Bond Street, which is a great place of a winter's evening, where you may hear tales which are as wonderful as they are true.
And at that thought he wondered a little, recollecting tales of other murderers and the fear they were said to entertain of heavenly avengers.
How far she believed in the wonderful tales she told, and the odd little charms she practised, no one exactly knew; but the older she grew, the stranger were the things she remembered, and the more testy she was if any one doubted their truth.
Rejecting themes in which you mix Fond truths and pleasing facts, to fix On tales of Dwarf and Giant!
Thrawn Janet which, with most of the tales in The Merry Men, was written at Pitlochry, appeared in Cornhill in 1880.
His essays are full of a quaint, delightful humour, his verses have a dainty charm, and in his tales he has given us a little picture gallery of characters and landscapes which have a fascination all their own.
Without collaboration Mr Stevenson wrote the three pretty little tales of South Sea life reprinted, as Island Nights' Entertainments, in book form about 1893.
It has been the aim of the Author, in a series of original tales told to the senior boys of a large school, to illustrate interesting or difficult passages of Church History by the aid of fiction.
If you are so dreadfully bad, you are in a pretty numerous company; and I don't think the shavelings believe their own tales about fire and torment hereafter.
Father Cuthbert's tales are not so bad, after all you seemed to like the legend he told us the other night.
It may be objected that he has made all his characters speak in very modern English, and has not affected the archaisms commonly found in tales of the time.
He pondered those ancient, historical tales which make free use of portents.
Tales were related of his scrupulous dealings, such as walking a distance of miles in order to correct a trifling error he had made, in selling a poor woman less than the proper weight of tea.
That these tales were gross, even ribald, might have been taken for granted, even had we not positive evidence of the fact.
He early displayed a bent for composition, scribbling verses that were very poor, and writing burlesque tales about his acquaintances in what passed for a Biblical style.
Though he had in fullest measure the forest passion for listening to stories, the ever-popular tales of Indian warfare disgusted him.
Defoe tells in this letter several tales of the shorefolk about the Great Storm of November, 1703, recollection of which Addison used effectively in the following year in his poem on the Battle of Blenheim.
Wreck follows upon wreck, and memory of many tales of death and peril on the rock-bound coast lie between us and the boy who took the helm when he spied the well-known creek as the great storm was sweeping the ship on to destruction.
The tales of this tribe, of which there are three specimens furnished, partake strongly of the character of the tribe.
The change in the word here indicated, is to be regarded as one of the points of invention, in their tales of demonology.
What effect tales like the following may have had, in bringing this ancient pagan custom into discredit, we will not undertake to decide.
He summoned his workmen and our labours engrossed us for many hours during which I fed his enthusiasm with renewed tales of marvels in the way of fruit-growing--and especially of pear trees.
But during all that time I dared not move; for though I had never visited this particular shrine, I had heard tales of what had happened to those who underrate the Unseen Powers.
They are vilified through a base envy and the most monstrous tales are told of them.
YORKE (Stephen), Author of "Tales of the North Riding.
Historical Tales and Anecdotes of the Times of the Early Khalifahs.
In all the tales there is a delicious spice of romance, while the artistic taste in which they are told makes them models of good story telling.
A careful perusal of the six tales here printed reveals and emphasizes a rare talent and a power in romantic fiction which are as rare as they are acceptable.
There is, too, a power in these tales which touches the reader.
And his little tales about the parties he'd been to on the night before was usually interestin'.
THE TIDAL WAVE Tales of love and of women who learned to know the true from the false.
Six weeks later he recognized in Rudyard Kipling's Plain Tales from the Hills a "new and piquant flavour," as of an Anglo-Indian Bret Harte.
Perhaps you recall certain earlier tales of hers which displayed the same characteristics that you will find in this, though I think they were not perhaps quite so definitely bogie.
March Marston was a young hunter, and, as yet an inexperienced warrior; but from childhood he had been trained, as if it were in spirit, by the anecdotes and tales of the many hunters who had visited Pine Point settlement.
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