Sentence examples for legends told from inspiring English sources

The whole is framed as a series of legends told by the uplifted Dogs who have replaced the human race, now gone for ever.

Born into poverty in a north German village, his imagination fired by the fables and legends told him by his father, he declared at the age of seven that one day he would find the site of ancient Troy.

As they speed across the galaxies, his personal goal is conflated with a greater quest, one that has its roots in the legends told to him by an elderly female Axxa called Mystica Grandax, a "startalker".

By Alice Marriott The New Yorker, August 2, 1952 P. 46 The writer, a young ethnologist on her first field trip was studying old legends told by an old Indian in South Dakota.

Ancient Greek legends told of sea voyages to Cilicia, where adventurers sought what they believed were the world's most valuable threads.

"It was not necessarily the center of a lot of violence, but it's where many future bosses got their start," Christian Cipollini, a well-known mob expert and editor of Gangland Legends, told me.

It can weigh 100 pounds, and stories and legends tell of much, much bigger ones.

Legends tell of distraught elves seeking help from humans in difficult cases of childbirth or illness.

The legends tell of how in a postal strike some years ago, overstuffed post offices put their parcels on trains that simply wandered, full, up and down Italy.

While Corrie legends tell their stories on ground level, an orchestra plays amid the roofs and chimneys; in the sky above, massive video screens project original footage.

Legends tell of pirate treasure buried beneath the dunes of the Outer Banks, and rusting smokestacks, masts, and boilers protrude from offshore waters, testimony to the more than 2,000 ships that have gone down.