Sentence examples for ancient legend from inspiring English sources
There is history and then there is increasingly ancient legend.
The Proudman family, clearly cursed by some ancient legend, were beset by endless tragedy.
Most of all the poll tax, which might have come out of some ancient legend.
An ancient legend tells how the goddess Nuwa patched the collapsing sky with colored stones, thereby saving the world.
He even employs magic realism to marry ancient legend with the post 9/11 politics of the here and now.
The poetic disputations are set within the prose framework of an ancient legend that originated outside Israel.
But somehow, the story became entangled with the ancient legend of the lobizón (Argentina's equivalent to the European werewolf).
In the tradition of Islamic illustration, such paintings almost always accompanied the text of a historical story or ancient legend.
The piece takes the form of an academic panel discussing the ancient legend, along with scenes boisterously acted out in full fur-and-helmets rock-opera mode.
The latest glossy repackaging of ancient legend on Starz has neither the gleeful hamminess nor the bounteous exposed flesh and soft-core sex of its channel mate.
No one knows exactly who made the first cheese, but, according to one ancient legend, it was made accidentally by an Arabian merchant crossing the desert.
