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Example sentences for "tradition says"

  • His son Hanns married a daughter of the Bavarian house of Pienzenau; and when he brought her home, tradition says it was in a carriage drawn by four thousand horses.

  • This song, tradition says, and the composition itself confirms it, was composed on the Rev.

  • Pronounced, tradition says, at the table of Mrs. Riddel, of Woodleigh-Park.

  • Tradition says that he was born there, and he certainly made it his chief place of abode.

  • Tradition says that St. Benignus was sent to Christianize Gaul by St. Polycarp, who had known John the Evangelist.

  • A tradition says that St. Trophimus, her first bishop, was the disciple of the gentile of Ephesus, whom St. Paul mentioned in his epistle to Timothy.

  • A Tradition says: "God is odd, He loves the odd.

  • Tradition says that in the dawn of history when the island of Che-ju (Quelpart) was covered only with a tangled forest three sages arose from a crevice in the ground.

  • Tradition says a star fell one night among the loyal forces and caused consternation there and exultation among the traitors.

  • Tradition says that he obtained his Queen in the following way.

  • Tradition says that he abused the trust placed in him by his employer, and absconded with the sum of six ryo wherewith he had been commissioned to purchase a new kind of armour which had recently come into vogue in Owari province.

  • Tradition says that he expired holding a sword in his right hand, the Hokke-kyo-sutra in his left, and that Kitabatake Chikafusa spoke of the event as a dream within a dream.

  • The red men had made a goodly clearing in the forest here and, tradition says, had planted fruit trees, and when the white man first set foot in this region he found full-grown bearing apple trees on this ancient clearing.

  • Tradition says it was built before the French and Indian War.

  • Tradition says: One Saturday night the work was nearly done and the arch finished but for the keystone.

  • In the next room, where the whipping-stocks were, tradition says sentence of divorce was pronounced against Katherine of Arragon.

  • Tradition says that in 1214 King John invaded France, but that after a time a truce was made between the two nations for five years.

  • A little to the east of this stands an old sycamore, which, fifteen years since, was railed in as the august mummy of that umbrageous tree under whose shade, as tradition says, Johnson and Goldsmith used to sit and converse.

  • The present recesses along the aisles of the nave, tradition says, were insisted on by James II.

  • Tradition says that St. Barruc was buried there, and the now barren and deserted islet appears to have been anciently a popular place among the saints.

  • Tradition says that 'in former times' there were frequent visits of angels to Wales; and their rare appearance in our days is ascribed to the completion of revelation.

  • The Druids, tradition says, celebrated the revival of Nature's powers in a festival which culminated on the first of April in the most hilarious foolery.

  • Tradition says that a mother begged hard for the life of a young son, who was to be destroyed, but Baron Owen would not relent.

  • The case of the imprisoned Spirit was not hopeless--tradition says he was to remain in the pool only until he counted all the sand in it.

  • There is what was once a track way leading from the ruins of the cow house to a spring called Ffynon y Fuwch Frech, or the Freckled Cow's Well, and it was, tradition says, at this well that the cow quenched her thirst.

  • Tradition says it is made of (imported) fire and brimstone.

  • Tradition says that in an expedition against the Frieslanders, he sank into a deep morass as he was fording the Eyder, where, being encumbered with the weight of his armour, he was slain.

  • Near Blackpool, about two miles out at sea, there once stood, tradition says, the church and cemetery of Kilmigrol, long ago submerged.

  • Here, tradition says, the prophet Samuel was born, and here the Shunamite woman built a little house upon the city wall for the accommodation of the prophet Elisha.

  • At Folkestone, tradition says, a long row of houses used for the purpose had the cellars connected one with the other right the way along, so that the revenue officers could be easily evaded in the case of pursuit.

  • In this, tradition says, the Lord Protector was hidden.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bear them; century onwards; characteristic feature; chariot drawn; dear home; dried grass; dumb animals; encamped near; high blood; just love; least once; material bodies; objective case; only served; public functionaries; quite unnecessary; reasonable price; spiritual perception; sulfuric acid; then gave; tradition concerning; tradition says; yeast cake