Sentence examples for read the tale from inspiring English sources

I asked Kiki whether she had read "The Tale of Genji".

(You have to read the tale to understand how Voltaire is able to make it a comic romp).

President Reagan read the tale of submarine disaster and derring-do and mentioned publicly that it was mesmerizing.

An American couple who read the tale of their survival last May in The New York Times gave them a small donation.

But it's not a slog to read; the tale is told with warmth and sometimes humour, and the dialogue is amazingly good.

While they acted, she read the tale from a book, using a stick and a small drum to keep time, like a storyteller in one of Chengdu's traditional teahouses.

I read the tales of English author Julia Donaldson beneath its original cornices as the breeze comes through the French doors.

4. Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin (1978) I must have read the Tales of the City series about a dozen times.

It's ages since I read the 'Tales of the City' books by Armistead Maupin, but I always identified with Michael Mouse Tolliverer.

They need only read the tales of Pippi Longstocking — the fiercely independent and cheerfully kooky 9-year-old who has been a soul mate to generations of children longing to color outside the lines.

A few years later, when I started reading in English, I was given a beautiful, hardback copy of The Complete Collection of Hans Christian Andersen and I would read the tales myself.