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Example sentences for "this tale"

  • Nor is this tale without a spice of humour: An astrologer entered his house and finding a stranger in company with his wife abused him, and called him such opprobrious names that a quarrel and strife ensued.

  • Now to this tale of legends revived and then forgotten, gossips' tales of Wishing-Pools and Snow-white Harts and a God who worked in the dark, we must begin to add the legend of the Rusty Knight.

  • Jessica: What is your opinion of this tale, Jane?

  • They were the shoulder and head of the muddy man whom you, dear maidens, have seen once before in this tale, but whom Hobb had never seen till then.

  • We may compare Dryden's modernised version of this tale, entitled 'The Cock and the Fox.

  • The origin of this Tale was a French Fabliau, like one that was first pointed out by Mr. T.

  • Chaucer is referring to that passage in his introductory lines to this tale; see particularly ll.

  • For general remarks on this tale, see vol.

  • See Ballads and Metrical Tales, illustrating the Fairy Mythology of Europe (anonymous, London, 1857) for a metrical version of this tale.

  • Despite the clumsiness of much of its machinery, despite its tiresome repetitions and its minor blemishes, this tale of a grand passion must ever remain one of the world's priceless literary possessions.

  • Illustration: THE BRIDE OF SATAN] This tale is common to many countries.

  • This tale was a creepy one for a boy of nine, and Rochester was a mystery, St. John a bore.

  • But, by our curious British conventions, this tale cannot be told in an English book or magazine.

  • See another version of this tale in the Baital Pachisi, No.

  • The Simple Incidents in this Tale Excused.

  • This tale is, in reality, founded on the beautiful tradition which belongs to Liebenstein and Sternfels.

  • O'Curry described the opening of this tale in his Lectures (MS.

  • On my translation of this tale, Lord Tennyson founded his poem "The Voyage of Maeldune.

  • It is needless to discuss the possibility that Chaucer wrote this Tale, as it is absent from all the MSS.

  • One topic, that might have been interesting to the readers of this tale, was avoided by them both.

  • But one place sees many minds; and now this sweet place was the bed on which dropped the broken lily of this tale, Grace Carden.

  • Chaucer does not give us the sequel of this tale, but Spenser says that three brothers, named Priamond, Diamond, and Triamond were suitors, and that Triamond won her.

  • This tale is told by Mr. Morris in The Earthly Paradise (April).

  • A close parallel to this tale is to be found in Grimm, No.

  • It is curious, however, that in this tale no blending with Christianity has taken place.

  • This tale is more or less a variant of a well-known type of fairy tales.

  • This tale, though part of a longer fairy tale, is still complete in itself.

  • The unity in this tale is unusually good.

  • Indeed after looking carefully at this tale one is tempted to say that, for perfection of style, some of the old folk-tales are not to be equaled.

  • In the form of this tale, the perfect fidelity with which the words fit the meaning is apparent--nothing seems superfluous.

  • The autobiographical form which he had first adopted in this tale he continued in the two series of "Afloat and Ashore.

  • This tale, though decidedly inferior to "Satanstoe," contains passages of great interest.

  • The whole aim of this tale was to satirise Cooper.

  • We are therefore at a loss to account for the wide diffusion of this tale, unless it has been transmitted slowly from people to people, in the immense unknown prehistoric past of the human race.

  • So many languages could not take the same malady in the same way; nor can we imagine any series of natural phenomena that would inevitably suggest this tale to so many diverse races.

  • Night is more or less personal in this tale, and solid enough to be cut, so as to let the Dawn out.


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