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Sentences starting with tales

Tales I have read, but a few, and John Milton, and Chaucer, and Bacon, and Montaigne, and Arab poets also, whose books my uncle sent me. [11]
Tales of stirring adventure in those localities do not need to be rushed to publication lest they get stale by waiting. [5]

Sentences ending with tales

The complainants had witnesses who testified under oath what they had heard in taverns and tap-rooms from Sir Seitz Siebenburg and those who repeated his tales. [10]
Some of them were not refined tales. [9]
And yet he was an original; for he assured us that he had never read the Leather-Stocking Tales. [4]
While listening to these love stories his own love for Natasha unexpectedly rose to his mind, and going over the pictures of that love in his imagination he mentally compared them with Ramballe's tales. [2]
In due season, the growth of knowledge, chiefly under the form of that part of knowledge called science, so changes the views of the universe that many of its long-unchallenged legends become no more than nursery tales. [6]
It swarmed with soldiers, adventurers, sailors who were familiar with all seas and every port, men with projects, men with marvelous tales. [4]
But then we shall hear pretty tales! [10]
In these days Pierre and Macavoy were little at the Post, save now and then to sit with Hilton beside the fire, waiting for spring and telling tales. [11]
How I despise myself for listening to Mr. Allen's tales! [9]
Come and see me very often, sweet one, and tell me all your prettiest tales. [10]

Sentences containing tales two or more times

Because the impression left, was that these tales were full of incident and imagination--a pleasant impression which would be promptly dissipated if the tales were told. [5]

More example sentences with the word tales in them

I could tell you such tales of its cleverness! [10]
I wish she would write 12 old-time New England tales a year. [5]
Out in the world where she was now so important, the newspapers told strange romantic tales of the great singer, wove wild and wonderful legends of her life. [11]
Of his many wild doings I recall well the time when--fired by my tales of hunting--he went out to attack the young bull in the paddock with a bow and arrow. [9]
For the source whence the Thug tales mainly came was a Government Report, and without doubt was not republished in America; it was probably never even seen there. [5]
No two tales were ever alike. [9]
Having done this, we moved away to other parts of the cemetery, looking at the tombstones, many of which told sad tales enough of those who died far away from home and friends. [11]
This is the very material that so many oriental tales have been made of. [5]
Words were now uttered, that brought the blood to Ulrich's cheeks, yet he intentionally pretended not to hear them, because he dared not contradict tales that might be true. [10]
He could now understand his father's tales of his Majesty's better days, his vigorous manly strength and eager delight in existence. [10]
All had tales to tell of his prowess, and how he had saved Rutherford's men from ambush at the risk of his life. [9]
I was obliged to promise Neithotep with an oath, not to tell tales out of school. [10]
It was disconcerting to hear the tales people told of the tailor's charity and wisdom. [11]
I almost dreaded to hear his tales of the havoc he had wrought on the Union army. [4]
It was hard to associate them with anything cruel or dreadful; and yet they dealt in tales of blood and suffering with a guileless relish that made me almost forget to shudder. [5]
Travelers who come to America always freight up with the same old nursery tales that their predecessors selected, and they carry them back and always work them off without any trouble in the home market. [5]
Therefore, from 1905 to 1909, I kept drawing upon all those experiences of others, from the true tales that had been told me, upon the reminiscences of Hudson's Bay trappers and hunters, for those incidents natural to the West which imagination could make true. [11]
Low whisperings came through the dusk like mournful nightwinds carrying tales of awe through a heavy forest. [11]
I have read this kind of rot all my life in poetry and tales and such-like rubbage. [5]
If you believe the tales of travelers, it is an undertaking of great hazard, an experience of frightful emotions. [4]
Then there were the tales handed down, and the records of the Church--for she knows the true story of every man that has come to New France from first to last. [11]
To his mind the tales did not live up to their titles. [11]
Often, listening to the pilgrims' tales, she was so stimulated by their simple speech, mechanical to them but to her so full of deep meaning, that several times she was on the point of abandoning everything and running away from home. [2]
And he felt the parting too, felt it deeply; however, I am his confidential secretary, and it would never do for me to tell tales out of school. [10]
The guides cheer the night with bear-fights, and catamount encounters, and frozen-to-death experiences, and simple tales of great prolixity and no point, and jokes of primitive lucidity. [4]
He had read the malice behind their words, and there had flashed into his own mind tales told him, with every circumstance of accuracy, of deaths within and without the Palace. [11]
The rustic merrymakings, the feasts in great halls, the games on the greensward, the love of wonders and of marvelous tales, the regard for portents, the naive superstitions of the time pass before us in his pages. [4]
Those tales of the Far South were given out with some prodigality. [11]
Away they go, the big red-and-yellow arks, swinging over the hills and along the well-watered valleys, past the twin lakes to Otsego, over which hangs the romance of Cooper's tales, where a steamer waits. [4]
It is well that the thoughtless critics, who spoke of the sad and gloomy views of life presented by the Brontes in their tales, should know how such words were wrung out of them by the living recollection of the long agony they suffered. [14]
The walls of that house could tell many tales to wring the heart. [9]
The travellers' tales that he had heard from the captains of trading-vessels and ships of war who frequented his father's house had filled him with a love of danger and enterprise, and a desire to see distant lands and foreign peoples. [10]
The latter could tell marvellous tales, and had his own peculiar opinions about everything between heaven and earth. [10]
As for his tales, he separated them into distinct categories. [10]
But there are tales that he is too curious about our government and state, and so he may be kept close jailed, though he only came here as a hostage. [11]
Even scientists swallow tales of prehistoric bones on testimony they would reject if it involved the title to a piece of real estate. [4]
The Uncle Remus tales of Joel Chandler Harris gave Mark Twain great pleasure. [5]
All of the tales have appeared in magazines and journals--namely, 'The National Observer', 'Macmillan's', 'The National Review', and 'The English Illustrated'; and 'The Independent of New York'. [11]
None, to be sure, listened so well as Ann, open-eared to all these tales, and it did old Dame Magdalen good to see the maid bestir herself contentedly about the house-keeping; but her changed mind proceeded from yet another cause. [10]
I shall be sufficiently grateful if this series of tales does no more than make ready the way for the novel of Egyptian life on which I have been working for some years. [11]
He praised their strength and stature, described the way to their country as almost inaccessible to a large army, and had plenty of marvellous tales to tell. [10]
She had heard strange tales of how Philip had become Prince Philip d'Avranche, and husband of the Comtesse Chantavoine, and afterwards Duc de Bercy. [11]
She knew that soon there would be wilder tales still when it was announced that she was bidding farewell to the great working world, and would live on in retirement. [11]
Then I tried some modern English tales, but she said they were silly. [11]
He had a smattering of French, which he turned off with oily brusqueness; he was not close-mouthed, he talked freely of events in his past life; and he told some really wonderful tales of his experiences in the British army. [11]
At night to sit and tell tales and such things; and perhaps a little brown brandy, a look at the stars, a half-hour with the cattle--the same old game. [11]
It is a singular thing that actual events which happened in those early days have largely vanished from my memory; but the fairy tales I heard and secretly experienced became firmly impressed on my mind. [10]
He began his series of tales of the middle ages and the dawn of the modern era in 1881 with The Burgomaster's Wife. [10]
The lofty tales sang in his veins: of primitive man, adventure, mysterious and exalted romance. [11]
However, as a rule her conversation was made up of racy tales about the privacies of the chief families of the town (for she went harvesting among their kitchens every time she came to the village), and Tom enjoyed this. [5]
The five tales reveal an extraordinary fulness of invention. [5]
Every flatboatman who returned to Kentucky was full of tales of the marvellous beauty of the quadroons and octoroons, stories which I had taken with a grain of salt; but they had not indeed been greatly overdrawn. [9]
It would be repugnant to us to repeat all the tales of barbarous cruelties, which are told of Cambyses at this insane period of his life; but we cannot resist mentioning a few which seem to us especially characteristic. [10]
As the lecturer remarked, this whole region is blanketed with Indian tales and traditions. [5]
I love to read about him in tales and legends and romances. [5]
As to diving rashly into such a vast subject--" But here, to my gratitude, she interrupted my thoughts by saying: "Yes, when it came to tales of his crazy woes, there was simply no end to them if anybody would listen. [5]
I hear decidedly queer tales of you; canoeing every day that business does not prevent, and whole evenings spent at the dark end of a veranda. [9]
Both these books present the summer side of Canada, which is as delightful as that of any climate in the world; both show the modern western life which is greatly changed since the days when Pierre roamed the very fields where these tales take place. [11]
But when La Pompadour and I come to our final reckoning, when it is a question who can topple ruins round the King quickest, his mistress or his 'cousin,' there will be tales to tell. [11]
Ceaselessly, adroitly, with persistence and power, he toiled towards his end, the way made easier by tales told of his prowess in the Vendee. [11]
If I could only remember them as they hovered before me, what epics and tales I could write! [10]
By accident, and on the suggestion of my friend Mr. Henley, the Canadian tales 'Pierre and his People' were published first; with the result that the stories of the Southern Hemisphere were withheld from publication, though they have been privately printed and duly copyrighted. [11]
Eumedes, the commander of the fleet, often visited him, and while exchanging tales of their experiences they became friends. [10]
There is warmth of summer in both tales, and thrilling air and the beauty of the wild countryside. [11]
One never tires of poking about in the dense woods that clothe all these lofty Neckar hills to their beguiling and impressive charm in any country; but German legends and fairy tales have given these an added charm. [5]
On the suggestion of my friend Mr. Henley, the Canadian tales, Pierre and His People, were published first; with the result that the stories of the southern hemisphere were withheld from publication, though they have been privately printed and duly copyrighted. [11]
Quite indifferent students of German can read Fritz Reuter's charming platt-Deutch tales with some little facility because many of the words are English. [5]
English readers did not fancy any burlesque of their Arthurian tales, or American strictures on their institutions. [5]
At supper she nodded to me many times with much contentment; except for that I might have been buried for aught she noted, for she hearkened only to Herdegen's tales as though they were a revelation from above. [10]
It is not necessary to dwell upon his brilliant powers of conversation, nor to repeat the platitudes which he repeated, for there was no significance in Mr. Hopper's tales, not a particle. [9]
But first you must tell me with what tales they taught you to hate the man to whom, as you yourself confessed, you nevertheless felt drawn. [10]
And he told me wonderful tales of the woods beyond the mountains, and of the painted men who tracked them; much wilder and fiercer they were than those stray Nanticokes I had seen from time to time near Carvel Hall. [9]
Barbara had heard marvellous tales of his learning, and it was really magnificent in compass and far more important than his keen but narrow mind. [10]
My mother told many tales of the place and sang of it, as I sang to you. [11]
Yes--like Mr. Wells's man who invented a drug that made him invisible; and like the Arabian tales of the Thousand Nights. [5]
She sat a long time looking at the receding line of candles reflected in the glasses and expecting (from tales she had heard) to see a coffin, or him, Prince Andrew, in that last dim, indistinctly outlined square. [2]
In our peaceful little chamber there was a wild outpouring of vows of love and words of fear, of plans for the future, and long tales of how it all had come to pass. [10]
Unfortunately it proved less potent than the opinion of Dio, who often distorted what Plutarch related, but probably followed most closely the farce or the popular tales which, in Rome, did not venture to show the Egyptian in a favourable light. [10]
Dear Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Since I first began to write these tales in 1892, I have had it in my mind to dedicate to you the "bundle of life" when it should be complete. [11]
They filled Mr. Lane and Mr. Hariot full of tales of a wonderful copper mine on the River Maratock (Roanoke), where the metal was dipped out of the stream in great bowls. [4]
The strategist, it is true, did not believe such tales, but the superstition of the Biamites, who, moreover, aided the Greeks reluctantly to punish a crime which threatened to involve their own countrymen, put obstacles in the way of his measures. [10]
Whenever Biberli had investigated the source of these evil tales, he had invariably found it to be Seitz Siebenburg, his retainers, the Eysvogel butler, or some man or maidservant in their employ. [10]
I climbed joyfully into her warm bed, and she drew her darling into her arms, played all sorts of pranks with him, and never did I listen to more beautiful fairy tales than at those hours. [10]
The Honourable Dave, indeed, had fought his way upward through life to the Congress of the United States; and many were the harrowing tales of frontier life he told Honora in the long winter evenings when the blizzards came down the river valley. [9]
The first night in that room we slept but little, near the whole of it being occupied with tales of my adventures and of my life in the mountains. [9]
The Cable mentioned in Mark Twain's reply is, of course, George W. Cable, who only a little while before had come up from New Orleans to conquer the North with his wonderful tales and readings. [5]
She must become his, though she resembled an April day, and Biberli's tales of the danger which threatened the husband from a sleep-walking wife returned more than once to his memory. [10]
The state of his purse was evident from the fact that the landlord of The Pike had once been obliged to detain him because he could not pay the bill--though it was by no means large--in any other coin than merry tales. [10]
There ran through his head tales chanted at camp-fires when he was not yet in stature so high as the loins that bore him. [11]
Bret Harte got his California and his Californians by unconscious absorption, and put both of them into his tales alive. [5]
He scarcely knew himself whether he loved her or not, but she appeared like the good fairy of whom the fairy tales spoke, and it often seemed as if she were far too delicate, dainty and charming for her simple, unpretending home. [10]
To Fleda in her earliest days he had been like one inspired, and as she now stood facing the intangible Thing, she recalled an exorcism which the Sage had recited to her, when he had sufficiently startled her senses by tales of the Between World. [11]
The poor fellow's heart was heavy and his mind was little bent on tales and amusements. [10]
His grandfather had heard many tales of both Cleopatra and Antony from his countryman Philotas, who, during the brilliant days when they revelled in Alexandria, had lived there as a student. [10]
He liked to hear the folk tales one of the soldiers used to tell of an evening (they were always the same), but most of all he liked to hear stories of real life. [2]
She said that he should live to tell them tales of the south country and the strange people, when they came again to their camp-fires. [11]
So, because I have a taste for tales, and gave him some, he told me of the Baron of Beaugard, and that time he took the right of the seigneur, and the end of it all. [11]
The three tales had tried their fate in vain together, at length they were sent forth separately, and for many months with still- continued ill success. [14]
Prudent people, who had regarded the long delay of the first ships of the fleet with anxiety, had opened their ears to the tales of evil, and looked forward to the future with uneasiness. [10]
After many days had passed, Joan tired of the concertina, of her own dancing, of her father's tales, and became inquisitive. [11]

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