There is the hunting and shooting baronet, happily married to Dorothea's sister; there is the Puritan banker Bulstrode, who ends up committing a crime; there is the feckless Fred Vincy, Rosamond's brother, and Mary Garth, who loves him, and is also a heroine in her parts of the tale - a sensible, thoughtful, responsible woman, who is also loved by the clergyman Farebrother, who collects insects.
Although the legend of the Grand Bargain has been discredited, the tale--a narrative describing a sensible, realistic Iran eagerly courting a stubborn Washington, with the Leveretts in the middle of things--served its purpose.
It was that tale, rather than any sensible, strategic reasoning that led to the romantic Richard, Earl of Cornwall, to site his medieval castle at windswept Tintagel in the 1230s.
If people feel depressed because they have a disease in their brains, then there is no reason to pay much attention to their tales of woe, and medication is the most sensible way to cure them.
As a setting for an espionage story, it belongs not to an airport thriller but to a Graham Greene tale, one in which a decent man makes one apparently sensible choice and finds himself in a grim labyrinth.
This Jets saga has become an equally improbable and twisted tale, but the 55-year-old Groh seems to be a sensible sort and has certainly been around.
We hide behind ideology while ignoring epidemiology, and let tales of sound and fury signifying nothing consistent or even sensible wag the dogma.
Surely, the calm and sensible Quakers in Cornwall will be less frenetic in their bid to make porcelain, and the tale will be more measured in the telling?
Sergeantsville - THIS is the tale of two brothers grown into old men who wear fierce eyebrows, striped aprons and sensible shoes, doing the business of their father and making a name for themselves.
