Word Finder - tale

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An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie.

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Don't tell tales!

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A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.

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the Canterbury Tales

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A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.

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The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark or victim.

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Number; tally; quota.

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Account; estimation; regard; heed.

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Speech; language.

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A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.

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A count; declaration.

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A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.

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A report of any matter; a relation; a version.

It is a tale of ambition and then of guilt.

When he finished his tale, she shook her head.

The vicomte told his tale very neatly.

The tale of his victims is said to have exceeded roo,000.

It is a tale that history repeats with surprising consistency.

Thanks, I really appreciate you listening to my tale.

On his face, besides the look of joyful emotion it had worn yesterday while telling the tale of the merchant who suffered innocently, there was now an expression of quiet solemnity.

Each new tale has added a subtle layering to the mystery and the magic that made up the man who would be the King's greatest ally.

Peter Pan's Tinker Bell originated in a Victorian tale but holds a strong presence in the Disney franchise, along with her fairy companions such as Silvermist, Rosetta and Fawn.

Tolkien's Lord of the Rings is a classic fantasy tale of good versus evil.

Merlin and Merlin's Apprentice - The tale of Merlin's lift is told with Sam Neill in the role.

His Essais en vers et en prose (1797) contains the Marseillaise, a prose tale of the sentimental kind called Adelaide et Monville, and some occasional poems.

Thanks. I really appreciate you people listening to my tale.

Meanwhile, Howard Stevenson has another tale of harrassing English cricketing legends.

Had the elevation of the parabolic mirror been a few yards higher, none could have lived to tell the tale.

The Star Wars plotline included the story of Annakin "Luke" Starkiller, raised on a farm in a distant world, who turns out to be the hero of the tale.

Jessi listened, enraptured by the tale.

He also translated the pastorals of Longus, wrote a tale called Diane de Castro, and defended, in a treatise on the origin of romance, the reading of fiction.

The tale tells of King Dasarath's court, the birth and boyhood of Rama and his brethren, his marriage with Sita, daughter of Janak king of Bideha, his voluntary exile, the result of Kaikeyi's guile and Dasarath's rash vow, the dwelling together of Rama and Sita in the great central Indian forest, her abduction by Ravan, the expedition to Lanka and the overthrow of the ravisher, and the life at Ajodhya after the return of the reunited pair.

As they work to untangle the threads of both murders, they make powerful enemies in a dramatic tale of court intrigue and revenge.

Peter Watkins uses TV broadcasting, a deliberate anachronism, to stage his tale of the Paris Commune.

Includes a cross, ... £ 8.95 Qty Noah's ark A hand-crafted wooden ark will bring this popular biblical tale to life.

The bottom line is that the biblical tale of Sodom and Gomorrah is a mythical story based on the usual archetype of celestial catastrophism.

However, I managed to suspend disbelief long enough to enjoy the tale.

Steve Moore has told the tale cleanly, not embellishing it with the superfluous.

In 1799 Scott translated Goethe's play Götz von Berlichingen, the tale of a chivalrous medieval German knight.

The tale of a young village lad (and ex-resident of Stone Row) whose life was changed forever by the onset of WWI.

The result was a tale of a man slowly driven mad by the life he had chosen to lead.

Fairies with butterfly wings are an increasingly popular mixture of modern art and fairy tale sensibilities.

His tale has become the model for other epic fantasy storytellers, inspiring creations such as Dragonlance, Dungeons and Dragons and much more.

Written in 1516, the tale explored a fictional island and its social, political and religious customs.

The tale of a man creating a monster from the body parts of the dead and using lightening to "give it life" mixes science, horror and speculation in equal measure with philosophical argument.

During the heightened wedding months, typically June and July, OPI releases many colors from the Soft Shades collection and groups them together in the infamous Fairy Tale Bridal collection.

The first volume published of his posthumous works was the exquisite and splendid Thedtre en liberte, a sequence if not a symphony of seven poems in dramatic form, tragic or comic or fanciful eclogues, incomparable with the work of any other man but the author of The Tempest and The Winter's Tale in combination and alternation of gayer and of graver harmonies.

His stride is the stride of a giant, from the sentimental beauty of the picture of Marie Antoinette at Versailles, or the red horror of the tale of Debi Sing in Rungpore, to the learning, positiveness and cool judicial mastery of the Report on the Lords' Journals (1794), which Philip Francis, no mean judge, declared on the whole to be the "most eminent and extraordinary" of all his productions.

Richard Burke was received with many compliments, but of course nothing came of his mission, and the only impression that remains with the reader of his prolix story is his tale of the two royal brothers, who afterwards became Louis XVIII.

The tale, which is almost identical with the Lohengrin legend, belongs to the class of the Cupid and Psyche narratives.

These were rhymed but also alliterative, in regular form, with prologue or mansong (often the prettiest part of the whole), main portion telling the tale (mostly derived in early days from the French romances of the Carlovingian, Arthurian or Alexandrian cycles, or from the mythic or skriik-segur), and epilogue.

Of later subject are the sagas of Havard and his revenge for his son, murdered by a neighbouring chief (997-1002); of the He15arirgasaga (990-1014), a typical tale of a great blood feud, written in the most primitive prose; of Gunnlaug and Hrafn (Gunnlaugssaga Ormstungu, 980-1008), the rival poets and their ill-starred love.

The Banda-manna saga (1050-1060), the only comedy among the sagas, is also a northern tale; it relates the struggles of a plebeian who gets a chieftancy against the old families of the neighbourhood, whom he successfully outwits; Ol-kofra pattr is a later imitation of it in the same humorous strain.

Fcereyinga tells the tale of the conversion of the Fa revs or Faroes, and the lives of its chiefs Sigmund and Leif, composed in the 13th century from their separate sagas by an Icelander of the Sturlung school.

He also made great progress in the art of wood-engraving, and with the money he received for a series of blocks Lfor a work called Walks about Dorchester, he printed and published his first book, Orra, a Lapland Tale, in 1822.

Writers the most unlike each other - Swift and Hugh Boulter, George Berkeley and George Stone, Arthur Young and Dr Thomas Campbell - all tell the same tale.

Schoolcraft mentions a Red Indian story explaining how " the bear does not die," but this tale Schoolcraft (like Herodotus in Egypt) " cannot bring himself to relate."

In Lafitau's tale the birds were wounded by the magic arrows of a medicine man, and the arrow-heads were found in the bodies of the human culprits.

The prediction was believed far and wide, and President Aurial, at Toulouse, built himself a Noah's ark - a curious realization, in fact, of Chaucer's merry invention in the Miller's Tale.

This feature of the tale contains some hint of the long nightless summer in the Arctic regions, which perhaps reached the Greeks through the merchants who fetched amber from the Baltic coasts.

Once more the little plaza with flowering acacias, once more the clear fountain telling its tale of love.

In appropriately alliterative tabloid style, the crucial component that made the tale a mass-circulation must was the elephant.

The feature-length ' Tale of the Fox ', Starewicz ' best-known work, is a technically audacious, gleefully wicked medieval animal fable.