| Bristling with wit and invention, these tales are full of hair-brained schemes, hair-raising moments, and incredibly close shaves. |
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| They even visit Canterbury on their way, but the tales they tell are the bitter-sweet flashbacks of memory, not episodes of instructive fiction. |
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| In the Middle Ages, wildly anachronistic tales of his exploits in Rome were in circulation. |
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| How he handles the tabloid tales and maintains a higher sense of purpose could be his key to a happy and fulfilled life. |
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| Beer, spare parts and tales of the day's adventures are enthusiastically shared while everybody mucks in with repairs. |
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| What about those tales where the whole ship falls sick with some incurable disease? |
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| They devoted page upon page, day after day, to tales of mass murders, common graves, summary executions, and war crimes. |
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| Join two of Ireland's finest storytellers recounting humorous and melancholy tales of Celtic Ireland. |
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| This has it all, a peculiar confection of tall tales and reality blended together in a strange and moving way. |
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| After decades of being considered bad form, tales of imperial derring-do are making something of a comeback. |
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| It put a face to the voice, so often heard on local radio telling waggish tales of country life. |
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| Each merchant's tales of how the scarabs came from the tomb of Tutankhamun grew less and less likely with every member of the caravan. |
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| The book is full of invented tales and wild exaggerations of documented events. |
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| What surprised me most of all was her book extract, with tales of her horrific childhood. |
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| It's true, and there are tons of similarly gossipy tales of women's sexual peccadilloes and the embarrassments of ambition. |
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| Can she melt her tyrant husband's cold heart with her tales of treasures, monsters, genies, magic and romance and create a true story of her own? |
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| Sometimes he would tell gruesome tales about medical procedures practiced in the jungle brush. |
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| We are regaled with tales of peregrines hovering over the groundlings at the Globe theatre, peregrines nesting atop the Battersea Power Station. |
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| The other angle I read into this is that of the child-abduction by goblins and fairies in the tales of yore and of today. |
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| I have managed to unearth yet more weird and almost unbelievable tales from this strange civilisation. |
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| Ghosts, monsters, fairies, UFOs and tales of all things supernatural are wanted for a new book on the subject. |
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| Given the nature of the protagonists, it was hard to believe the tales of a torrid, adulterous affair were true. |
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| There were also tales of people commissioning numerous surveys only to be outbid again and again. |
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| My love of the UK has a lot to do with being raised on British fairy tales and the lowland Scots lilt in my grandmother's voice. |
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| She turns to a mysterious woman named Mary who tells exotic tales and teaches Tessa to read. |
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| There were heart-wrenching tales from families whose innocent lives he had ruined and scarred forever. |
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| They mate for life, although tales of them pining away after the loss of a mate have not been proven. |
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| History is sprinkled with tales of the exploits, achievements and leadership of young adults, even teenagers. |
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| Improbable tales of true love overcoming desperate odds are a hallmark of Bollywood, the Indian film genre watched by millions worldwide. |
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| Their salon is in the space that was once the Spanish Kitchen, the site of one of Los Angeles' great and enduring tales of mystery and intrigue. |
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| It will tell tales of frontier gunfights, buffalo hunts, Indian fights, trail drives, and stagecoaches. |
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| The book does have a dark edge, exposing the shady business deals, tales of payola, and personal dramas. |
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| If dominant stories tell tales that force everyone into one mold or belief, then counterstories are all those stories that don't fit the mold. |
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| He speculates about the personal stories of strangers in bars and offers up tales of his childhood with the ease of a trusted friend. |
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| From the late Middle Ages onwards, one plot in particular dominated these tales in Europe. |
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| Shakespearean tales of love as sacrifice, conquest or unrequited passion are beyond reason. |
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| Many tales of Harrison's heroism and bravery under fire were retold by veterans. |
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| Out of the wreckage of war sometimes come uplifting tales of the indomitable human spirit. |
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| As countless tales have told us, it's always a bad idea to mess around with the past. |
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| Richard adds to the enchantment of these tales with the rhythms of his mountain dulcimer and conga drum. |
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| During a Halloween party, the Simpsons tell three horrifying tales of the macabre. |
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| Using these images, she intermingles tales of the past with stories from residents now living in the area. |
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| Conjure descends from West African vodun and appears in these tales as a natural religion that has taken root in the American Southern landscape. |
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| The claim that ground beef is a biohazard is bolstered with frightening tales of E. coli. |
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| There was the prospect of drug tales and gossip from the demimonde to impeach his credibility. |
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| He would regale us of tales about the rich and famous, their peculiar ways and their strange vices. |
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| Only there is a slight reek of hypocrisy in the old tales of Oxonian elitism. |
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| Princesses with golden curls, a raven mane or shiny red tresses having adventures are what fairy tales are all about. |
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| The Kashubian tales again would naturally be pressed into the service of the surrounding Germans. |
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| We may assuredly presume that she would have written a greater body of overtly weird tales had she been allowed the editorial freedom. |
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| His new takes on the classic tales made us laugh out loud at more than one bedtime. |
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| More recently, it is primarily sword and sorcery that has grabbed our attention, and hyper-realist tales of cybernetic intrigue. |
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| The Brooklyn-based half-Asian MC and turntablist relates tales from a changing New York City with intelligence, humour and honesty. |
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| It's not as outlandish or as hilarious as many of tales of his boffo corruption. |
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| These tales were set in different eras ranging from Arthurian times to the Crusades, in Carthage, the Boer War and in Australia. |
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| I laughed myself silly over her comparison of children to terrorists, and her tales of her domineering, movie star mother. |
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| While there was plenty of enjoyment on the trip there was also plenty of hardship and tales of aching legs and other parts of the anatomy. |
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| Despite the interesting tales of business travel and outdoorsy getaways, I didn't stay long. |
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| It can't be any worse than any of the tales of mirth and woe I've got lined up. |
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| Tellers of good tales rather tend to hyperbolize the details in order to make the story just a bit better. |
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| Ghost stories, tales of the supernatural and horror films all scare us via confrontation with the unknown. |
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| The tales mix magic with moments that are both funny and scary, steering clear of the sickly-sweet stories we have been fed for years. |
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| The most marvelous tales of weeping and woe are preached in poetic extreme. |
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| Our digestions coped admirably and thus you will have no tales concerning toilets, bushes, and Delhi Belly. |
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| I fell in love with one of the girls as she told me tales of her paradisal childhood as the gardener's daughter in a castle in East Prussia. |
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| Maid Marion is not part of the original tales and likely comes from French pastourelles where she was associated with a shepherd Robin. |
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| Many Western readers deny that there are any such tales of indigenous African provenance. |
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| The pay and fringe benefits will be few, but at least intrepid plumbers and joiners will have tales to tell their grandchildren. |
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| Early Indonesian literature consisted largely of local folk tales and traditional religious stories. |
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| His tales involve a rogue's gallery of European freebooters with names like John Blackthorne, Ian Dunross, and Tab Thumpchest. |
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| His tales aren't rhythmic and quiet narrations, but explosive stories of passion and elan. |
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| New research, published yesterday, suggests children's love of contemporary fiction means classic tales are being left on the shelves. |
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| The current owner often tells tales of her mother, who opened the bar, making her own moonshine and beer. |
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| I am not given to flights of fancy, soppy tales of love and romance and I was certainly not looking for love. |
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| It was a happy coincidence that Brecht's theory of alienation was inspired by folk tales and folk theatre, which relied a lot on story-telling. |
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| I've heard whispered tales of how ridiculous and awesome this movie is, but haven't seen it yet. |
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| Travellers' tales of upset stomachs are all too common in this part of the world for those foolish enough to risk salads or the local water. |
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| But his father also had a fascination with gold, and he grew up hearing tales of miners, prospectors, and grubstakes at the dinner table. |
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| The other development was the gathering of Haggadic legends and tales into comprehensive, systematic compendiums. |
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| He was the technical services engineer for a bitumen company, delighting in tales of tarry deposits and exploding tankers. |
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| He's set horrific tales of drug overdoses, chainsaw murders and matricide to a jubilant beat. |
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| The show offers a refreshing antidote to the sickly-sweet moral tales so often associated with children's TV and is all the better for it. |
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| Suitable subjects for booger tales are numerous Louisiana swamp and bayou terrors, many of them the products of Cajun folklore. |
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| Not only does Hurston allow rural Black Floridians to tell their own folktales, but she presents their tales in Black vernacular speech. |
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| This is about to lapse into various other tales but they are all somehow relevant, do not adjust your set. |
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| A local guide will lead the way, entertaining them with tales of folklore and mystery associated with the area. |
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| And that was a big surprise to many people who expected Russia Today to go and tell all the fairy tales about Russia to the world. |
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| Dylan drops her home then writes a story about how much he hates fairy tales and that no one lives happily ever after. |
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| Despite all the heroic deeds in tales and sagas, a grown man would have seen a major conflict about once every twenty years. |
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| Few had ever seen her, though tales of her strength, her beauty and her generous gifts spread far and wide. |
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| A succession of books followed, mostly easy readers that told tales of the Revolutionary War through colorful pictures and monosyllabic words. |
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| There were tales of high-top sneakers and traveling in coach cars and all-night card games. |
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| The music business is full to overflowing with tales of artists who have had their fingers burned by the big industry players. |
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| He was a horrible gossip, and his tales shifted from fact to fancy in the space of a minute. |
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| Be it popular culture, travel tales or mostly random observations, Sidin's brand of humour is immensely popular among bloggers and tweeters. |
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| Yet the seemingly endless flow of aid continues while we hear tales of donor fatigue. |
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| Despite its official backing the book pulls no punches and includes tales of the singer's bullying and bad behaviour. |
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| Maurice, seeing the slave's light skin did not flinch, he had seen and heard tales of white slaves. |
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| One still hears tales of settlers who cleared the bush while reciting Shakespeare and Shelley by heart. |
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| The two of them quickly pair off and start swapping sexual secrets and tales of past lovers. |
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| The discomfort from having to stand so purposelessly on the street corner has them doubly animate in recounting tales and goss. |
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| Jason Gardener is regaling me with tales of an invite to Buckingham Palace and a chinwag with the Queen. |
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| Bachmann weaves tales of anti-heroines, old drunks and people dousing themselves in gasoline into a strong collection of songs. |
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| Alchemists, the tales go, sought to use a magical philosopher's stone to transmute lead into gold. |
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| However, I've heard of fish much bigger and I have no reason to doubt the tales whatsoever. |
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| Despite tales of Teds slashing cinema seats, most people would accept that the level of youth crime is far higher now than it was then. |
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| She remembered her father telling her tales of pirates marooning their captains and awful things of that sort. |
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| Such old wives' tales as the caps of edible fungi peeling easily, or brightly coloured fungi being poisonous, cannot be relied upon. |
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| Americans love success stories, especially tales of underdogs who overcome all odds to achieve success by their own efforts. |
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| In older books I found tales of desert caravans, raids by Bedouin clans, near starvation, and hard-won spiritual enlightenment. |
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| Sea-kayak around uninhabited islands and hike desert arroyos, then spend evenings swapping expedition tales with Messner and Kane. |
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| Unfortunately, this week you're especially liable to interpret well-meant advice, cautionary tales or even offers of aid as undesired meddling. |
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| What renders these tales of same-sex love almost unbearably poignant is their constant battle to be retrieved. |
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| The Jataka tales have much educational value and were used to teach youngsters the important morals and goals of life. |
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| Also, being a doubting Thomas, I wanted to verify those tall tales of the Alaskan winter and to disprove the rumor of the Alaskan qualification. |
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| They hear scary tales about sniffing glue, popping pills and shooting heroin. |
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| Hearsay, anecdote and tall tales says that it is possible, that this is just words until it happens to you. |
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| Ludwig had first been introduced to ancient Germanic tales by his governess and later became obsessed with the dark stories. |
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| Robert and Kitty are deputizing Isaac to sling some mud at the man telling tales on Robert, and stop the story from spreading. |
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| As I read, the writer elaborated on the material with heartbreaking tales of his family life. |
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| He realized that not all the tales of the man's drinking and womanizing achievements were the product of jealous or envious rumour-mongers. |
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| By no means, though, should you assume that he simply churns out tales like an automaton working from a template. |
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| Some might say that these tales of celebrity heroism might be the product of hyper-imaginative publicists. |
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| In traditional storytelling, trickster tales are often greeted with laughter. |
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| Some stories are much too good to be true, tales so full of emotion and pathos that they compel a journalist to step back and reconsider. |
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| It would be easier to focus on tales of high-tech Scottish wizardry or financial shenanigans instead. |
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| Novels of alienation and misery are common currency, tales of abuse, violence and desertion are run-of-the-mill stuff for British fiction. |
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| He's a very reserved young man, so people talk and they invent funny tales about him. |
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| Again Ridge instantly screamed out breathless tales of a terrorist wolf, while the media slobbered at the door. |
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| Does the creator of these twisted tales inhabit dank, cobwebby rooms with dusty velvet curtains and candles everywhere? |
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| While I'm on a rollercoaster tip I think I'll bore you with tales of riding one of the greatest wooden big dippers in the world. |
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| In merciful contrast tender tales of sun-drenched small town reverie restore some hope. |
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| The Bill and Ben stories were invented by their older sister Hilda, as tales to keep the twin boys amused whilst they had their bath. |
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| He entertained guests at the official luncheon with humorous tales during his time as editor. |
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| In fact, he has been telling tall tales for a long time to his children, inflating events in his own life to mythic proportions. |
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| Visions of rude, fast-talking, brash Yankees flashed briefly through my adolescent mind from tales overheard from relatives. |
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| Offering students the opportunity to compare a picture book with a teen novel allows us to review familiar tales with students. |
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| His traditional roots show as he weaves tales from life as it was for Canada's early settlers, hunters, fishers, explorers and adventurers. |
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| To Web surfers, he came off as a quick-witted scribe who kept readers amused with tales of high-altitude nuttiness. |
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| I was brought up on tales of Brits exploring the world and this has always inspired me. |
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| It is precisely with this sense of anticipation that I picked up this book of Dogri folk tales and I was not disappointed. |
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| This is just one of the many fascinating tales which are told and re-told wherever metallurgists foregather. |
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| They knew interesting tales about when my parents were naughty children and they could identify the faded figures in family photographs. |
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| Their reasons for emigrating in the first place were mostly economic and the tales of fortunes to be made abroad spurred them on. |
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| Here are microcultural tales of pirates and robbers, blanket fairs, curtain lectures and night-kings. |
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| Gathered by journalists avid for war copy, the audience of the tales was vastly expanded by an uncritical press. |
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| Tall tales were woven around the 1830 Revolution, notably to the effect that the landed aristocracy had been elbowed aside by bourgeois groups. |
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| Her unsisterly sharpness to her youngest sister Amy, for example, causes Amy to burn the volume of tales she had been working on. |
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| Throughout the album, Dead Prez move from bitter reportage, recounting tales of poverty and desperation, to impassioned calls to action. |
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| On reading this Karen story of a giantess, I was struck by how similar it is in structure and function to certain Korean tales which I have read. |
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| The more directly Andersen's tales draw on his own emotional vulnerabilities or satirize his contemporaries, the more powerful they are. |
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| But despite these varying degrees of success, the three twisted tales meld together smoothly, forming one perfectly disturbing anthology. |
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| On the downside, this dependency on biography and history means that sometimes the tales do not stand in their own right. |
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| Fairy tales were deployed by Wildeans to express same-sex desire in a thickly coded array of tropes. |
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| Other tale-tellers repeated tales identical to Perrault's text word for word. |
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| Though they total no more than about 35,000 words, his 12 mordant tales are little aerial masterpieces about social change, aging and divorce. |
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| The tales of rape, humiliation, physical and mental torture pour out until you want to cover your eyes and stop your ears. |
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| Answers to your questions may come in the form of lies, tall tales and unverifiable information. |
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| Fascinating tales of Romeo and Juliet were among Mr David's favorite pieces of Shakespeare's works. |
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| Often concerned with kingship, dynastic conflicts, and battles, these tales are sometimes also referred to as the king cycle. |
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| Then he tells her of his wild tales of the savage barbarian Conan, and she sees the fire in his eyes. |
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| Forget about those tales of huge tubs filled with ice cold beer served by doe-eyed barmaids just quivering to hear your band. |
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| The story is inspired by the true tales of puppeteers and entertainers in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. |
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| Imagine how many more fascinating tales are contained within the walls of the old-age institutions! |
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| Tall tales were spelled aplenty amongst the old sea dogs during their retiring years. |
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| I've been slightly immersed in European and Asian cinema recently, and there are some cracking tales out there. |
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| Change the cut of her gown a little, and she could have been a wood nymph of the tales of old. |
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| But even though the college has left its grisly past behind, it's hard to dissociate it from the macabre tales of its early beginnings. |
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| While this may have been so at point of entry, they have certainly matured into storytellers, weaving tales with a sense of theatre. |
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| Likewise the use of animals as human stand-ins turns the tales into Aesop-like fables with a modern, existential twist. |
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| They travelled from near and far to join in the celebrations with many swapping tales and yarns of growing up in the area. |
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| Now, I'm sure some of you with a more sceptical nature might find my tales of invisible derring-do a little hard to believe. |
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| We're chronicling the stories, the tales and adventures of every beatboxer around the world. |
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| Visitors can hire an audio tape recalling tales of the servants who have served at Harewood. |
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| Bears wake from their long hibernation, now, hirsute initiates with tales to tell to those with ears to listen. |
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| Others recounted tales of the privations caused by the blockade and the makeshifts necessitated by them. |
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| Surely their fate carries with it lurid tales of hedonism and excessive violence? |
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| Can unlinked tales with recurrent names or places as motifs form a coherent whole between covers? |
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| Arab Americans who came forward to testify at the hearing told equally harrowing tales of harassment. |
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| I'm not a specialist in ancient mythology but like most lovers of history I enjoy seeing the vast and great tales of the past brought to life. |
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| The tales were known long before the extant ballad versions began to be copied or printed in the mid-fifteenth century. |
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| This has nothing to do with biblical tales for tinies, but is the name of a weekly street party that can be heard by ships far out to sea. |
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| And everyone seems ever more determined to expose themselves, transforming titillating tales into their fifteen minutes of TV-chatter fame. |
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| There are plenty of human-interest stories and recipes, plus the obligatory tales of gobblers that encounter or evade the guillotine. |
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| Their sensitive and delicate portrayal of tales is so real and touching that they have become the hallmark of Iranian cinema in the recent past. |
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| As the evening progressed, the accordion player moved on from more traditional tales of woe to sing the theme tune from Love Story in Finnish. |
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| Traveling minstrels serenaded their clients with bawdy or heroic tales set to music. |
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| The cockney beefeaters told the same gory tales of beheading at Tower Hill. |
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| Vaughn cracks many jokes, but the bulk of the commentary is devoted to stories and behind-the-scenes tales of the film. |
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| In West Africa, didactic tales and tales of magic with moral endings are very popular. |
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| There are those tales too of a somewhat grimmer nature concerning the use of humour to palliate the horrors of war. |
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| Many of these accounts were embellished, and some of the more lurid tales were pure fabrications. |
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| Tabloid newspapers have always printed tawdry tales of public figures' peccadilloes, but it hasn't dominated discussion in the same way. |
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| He was an ethnologist and he recorded all of these songs and tales of the Passamaquoddy Indians. |
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| The story of their descent is reminiscent of tales of trench warfare from the Great War. |
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| From nature to human tragedies, the photographs tell tales reams of paper cannot. |
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| It is the hour spoken of most often in fairy tales and ballads and song, where almost anything is possible. |
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| Already, there were tales last week of German beef being cut up in Ireland and repackaged for the supermarket shelves of this sceptred isle. |
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| In particular, I argue that the mirrored characters parallel the structure of folk and fairy tales in their subversive potential. |
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| In the 13 th century, French troubadours wrote love-thwarted tales in a poetry-prose mix. |
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| Thoroughly unsophisticated, they are ready victims for any retailers of fairy tales who come along. |
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| Was this crucial mid-Atlantic tie worthy of a mention en route amid tales of kings and queens? |
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| He was in the depths of despair following allegations of rape and sexual assault and tabloid tales of cocaine abuse. |
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| And I still will do this, because scallywags and tellers of tall tales though some of 'em may be, them's my buddies. |
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| He would tell them epic tales of noble knights, paladins, warriors, and samurai. |
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| Feiffer's hardcover, a collection of superhero tales from comic books' Golden Age was unique in its day. |
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| The closeness of being in a packed car allows the trio the chance to swap stories and the lads to fabricate tales of bravado. |
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| He returned home with shrapnel wounds and tales of fighting U.S. military might with a rifle. |
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| Illustrated with a scattering of the author's own landscape oil paintings, the autobiographical tales display a love of the Great Outdoors. |
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| All the courageous deeds and tales of chivalry that they had so eagerly talked about were so far away now, like a faint memory just out of reach. |
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| Arnold was spellbinding in convincing her that the tales were absurd, obvious lies. |
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| These tree-like creatures, agonizingly slow and covered with mossy bark, nursed themselves on tales of past glory while their numbers dwindled in their isolation. |
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| There are many old wives' tales that have no basis in the law. |
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| The first level consists of tales that circulated primarily in unassimilated band and tribal societies, though the tales may have only been written down after assimilation. |
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| He is so good at telling Andersen's tales that one wishes to hear more. |
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| If these functions and actions lead to a definite end, making folktales uniform and identifiable, the characters and their attributes change, making the tales multiform. |
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| And many might like to hear tales of the political classes decamping to the seaside for a week of fervent backstabbing, orgiastic networking and roaring drunkenness. |
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| The tales are models of scientific realism, describing in hauntingly convincing detail what it is like to voyage through the vast, empty reaches of the solar system. |
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| They do that by telling great stories and tales from wherever they are. |
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| Every effort to locate either earlier tellings of these two tales has failed, a real-world Bluebeard who murdered wives in his castle is a post-Perrault creation. |
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| There are tales of UFOs and plutonium, veiled critiques of macho money-grabbing rap and more electronic bleeps than in a digital telephone exchange. |
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| If one extends this observation further, one discovers that whereas all the tales explored earlier present a reasonably positive case for idiosyncracy and isolation. |
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| The ballad form, which was most popular between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, often involved pastoral tales sung to the accompaniment of a lute or zither. |
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| There was an altogether more subtle look at his show which drew on Homer and Plato's tales of sirens singing unsuspecting sailors to their deaths. |
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| He had heard tales of labyrinthine passages built into the walls of noble castles, and knew that the Princess must know a secret control to open his room into such a passage. |
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| She shifts effortlessly from folk and blues to upbeat tangos and haunting instrumentals, all interspersed with humorous tales of her life on the road. |
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| The film wears all its anachronisms on its sleeve and evades any of the empty solemnity that is often associated with tales of love and sword fights. |
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| I don't want to dramatize my tales of tear gas and fear and outrage. |
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| As a result, you're always hearing tales about the perfect slice of pizza in distant Flatbush, say, or the incomparable samosa in far-off Jackson Heights. |
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| If fairy tales make you think of simpering goody-goody princesses and men in tights with page boy haircuts, has Ella Enchanted got a surprise for you. |
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| In the course of his travels, Carroll has amassed some hilarious, touching, and serendipitous tales from the road. |
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| Pre-Christian epic ballads, agricultural songs, laments, and tales dating back to before the tenth century were recorded for the first time in the seventeenth century. |
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| The darkness and dissonance of these tightly constructed tales reflect something of the political turbulence of Soviet Russia. |
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| One of the scariest tales shared in the exhibit involves the U.S. military. |
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| Anderson tells his tales with a great deal of surprisingly original material aided by his four-way narrative. |
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| The popularity of anime tales featuring man-on-man passion is burgeoning among Japanese women. |
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| The tellers of these tales usually neglect to mention that recycling, composting and public-education programs were introduced along with user pay. |
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| Early tales of apprenticeships to magicians and sorcerers intrigued me. |
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| The tales are sometimes dryly humorous, but often just heart-breaking. |
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| Two dozen hourlong tales of mystery, suspense, comedy, and intrigue delivered over the course of a year. |
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| The Taiping Rebellion had added another dimension to these folk memories, expressed in heroic tales of the imaginary exploits of its leader Hong Xiuquan. |
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| As a young boy, Andrew Roberts, the leading historian, thrilled to the tales in Our Island Story, and he's delighted that it is now being reprinted. |
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| Mine is a generation without old wives' tales or handy money-saving hints. |
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| The authors of classics like Haunted Heartland have returned with a brand new collection of ghost stories and haunted tales from all across the country. |
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| In addition to formal calendars using certain flowers, superstitions and old wives' tales about plants and flowers abound for each month of the year. |
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| They carry with them proof of their amazing visits, and can spend much time narrating tales about every photograph and testimonial they carry with them. |
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| Radio broadcasts and recordings of epic tales and local histories told by leading griots have helped transport this literature into the twenty-first century. |
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| While the previous chapter covered the extermination of zombies, this chapter will explain the many misconceptions and old wives' tales about killing zombies or old wives. |
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| Each of the huge rafters had been carved from a single tree, and old tombstones told tales of deaths on distant shores as, indeed, they did in Kochi's St. Francis Church. |
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| The pub boasts no tales of hauntings, but there is a bricked-up cellar space which once linked the Queen's Tap, the GWR hotel next door and the station itself. |
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| If we were seated around a fire and an owl hooted or a bush-baby cried in the dark, witchcraft was blamed and the narration of folk tales was abandoned. |
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| My granda sat me on his knee and told me tales that filled me with wonder. |
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| Yet strip away ideology and what emerges are two strikingly similar tales of radicalization, militancy and, in the case of these two men, deradicalization. |
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| There's only us and a few other people eating lunch in this big bar and I fear for their appetite as he spouts swear words, smoke and grisly tales of true crime. |
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| And tales of the tight 2003 title climax will not chill this man 's blood. |
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| Whatever the case, it's a sign of our miserabilist times that precisely the time of year when there is the most fun to be had is overshadowed by tales of gloom. |
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| Cavarero writes generically complex tales of the narratable self, reviving the writerly tradition of Roland Barthes, and echoing his recognition of eros, love, and desire. |
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| She becomes a devotee of death, addicted to the most shuddery of Grimms' fairy tales and a book for the terminally ill called A Hundred Ways to Die. |
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| Until scientific evidence became available, the most famous tales centred invariably around man-eaters, narrated by the shikari or hunter-turned-conservationist. |
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| There were farther off sections dedicated to suit the reader's tastes more efficiently, a whole block of gothic and horrifying tales were emitting soft moans and howls. |
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| There is no information about where Ellen learned her tales or from whom. |
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| And to be sure, they read tales of quick riches and overnight fame. |
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| Under the auspices of the fellowship, Hurston was to travel to Florida and New Orleans to begin her research on African American folk tales and to scout out hoodoo practice. |
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| She tells us tales of ambulances collecting women in labour to take them to the hospital delivery suites, only to be held up at a checkpoint where the women give birth. |
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| A robust grandfather, once the bane of Hollywood screenwriting, regales his frail, fidgety grandson with horrible tales of the macabre and the supernatural. |
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| In narratology and comparative mythology, the monomyth is the common template of a broad category of tales that involve a hero who goes on an adventure, and in a decisive crisis wins a victory. |
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| Breaking down rigid social hierarchy so characteristic of the Middle Ages, these riotous tales poke fun at everyone. |
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| While Nora enthusiastically turns to fairy tales as a form of childhood therapy, she also unwittingly absorbs the genre's patriarchal and racist subtexts. |
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| This contiguity is reflected in tales about the creation of human forms. |
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| Shelves have been filled with bestselling reverential SEAL, delta force, and sniper tales sold as memoirs. |
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| He was a true character in every sense of the word, with numerous tales to relate about his working life on the land and also his time in the army. |
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| Historical tales suggested that a woman attained both the power to give a curse and to confer a blessing in the period between her vow of sati and her death. |
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| Gone were the secret incantations and gothic tales of interred bodies, but the divining rod remained, now viewed as a conductor of imponderable fluids. |
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| Dame Diana Rigg, who plays Lady Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones, has turned tales of critical bashing into a delightful play. |
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| Reports suggest some southern toffs plan to stay at home rather than venture north of Watford, scared by tales of chilly climes, cloth caps and whippets. |
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| Her work is imbued with a keen sense of the macabre and the wittily surreal and draws heavily on symbolism and themes derived from traditional fairy tales and folk myths. |
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| He was a magician, an invisible teller of tales with the power to make my sides ache without telling a single joke. |
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| Kathryn Thomas regaled guests with tales of her trip to Bulgaria, and made them green with envy when she announced that she was off again to Egypt, the next day. |
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| The mojo tales are variedly frightening, mysterious, tongue-in-cheek, curious, exciting, didactic and deceptively simplistic, but almost always interesting. |
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| After years of obsessively reading books of chivalry, his mind finally snaps and he decides to become an actual knight errant like those in the tales he has read. |
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| We have heard tales of immense human suffering and unimaginable depravity. |
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| From a stolen degas to Ansel Adams negatives at a garage sale, we uncover more tales of art gone astray. |
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| Rumours that a bootleg recording of him singing in the hotel bar still exists is just one of the enthralling tales which surround the famous venue. |
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| The stories of coastal Aboriginal people are tales of sea creatures and their journeyings, stories that connect past mythic events with present coastal land and reefscapes. |
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| Cowboys rarely, if ever, ate pasta and Italy's history, while rich and storied, is bereft of tales of cattle rustlers, gunslingers and homesteaders circling the wagons. |
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| But, I should begin at the beginning, where all epic tales begin. |
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| But when the darkness closes in, we actually run to fairy tales and fables. |
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| Senior officials normally observe a longstanding political taboo by skirting around such tales of torment. |
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| This braggart weaves astonishing tales of cunning and will while stalking game, and even more preposterous stories of superhuman feats of boozing. |
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| With a gigantic career based upon an aw-shucks tone of blue collar tales of midwestern values, couldn't one little fling many years ago get absolved after a teary apology? |
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| Chloe of the Midnight Storytellers will amuse the guests by recounting tales from myth and legend, as well as adaptations of literary short stories. |
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| Of course, Creekmore knew the tales about the Killer, and frankly, the house gave him the creeps. |
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| Jung, not Freud, liked fairy tales for what they tell us about human nature. |
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| Set in Edwardian London, the movie starts off with Wendy who narrates harrowing tales of swordplay and Captain Hook, who fears nothing but a ticking clock. |
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| You will be pleased to hear that I have enough of these tales on file to last another six months, and three out of the next four involve things getting blown up. |
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| He woos her with tales of his fraught relationship with Queen Isabella of Spain and his love of the open ocean. |
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| I remember tales of two or three men catching hundreds of white bass from Lake Livingston or its tributaries, depending on the time of year, in a morning or afternoon. |
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| In many of the tales the fairies are tiny, silly, helpless creatures. |
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| But Lawrence's distinction breaks down in the end, for the telling of tales is also a way that the teller advances his own knowledge of the world. |
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| Despite lurid tales of the Russian mafia, they have far bigger fish to fry than tourists, so miscreants are no more than the petty chancers you'd meet in any Western city. |
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