Sentence examples for tale of battles from inspiring English sources
BOB McKENTY This is the latest chapter in the continuing tale of "battles over breakfast" at our house.
It was preceded and perhaps influenced by Amiran-Darejaniani (probably c. 1050; Eng. trans. Amiran-Darejaniani), a wild prose tale of battling knights, attributed by Rustaveli to Mose Khoneli, who is otherwise unknown.
Yet no matter how flat or diffuse its affect, "Generation Kill" is at its best a tale of battle-forged camaraderie, a "Band of Brothers" set not at Agincourt or Normandy, but Iraq in 2003.
On the other hand, that all-American tale of battle triumph shows little sign of revival.
The first generation, the veterans themselves, he says, told their tales of battles in high-blown Victorian prose about courage and sacrifice.
The book is the modern equivalent of an ancient epic, filled with tales of battles fought by club-wielding giants, as well as with many endless genealogies.
Almost every male over 45 that he encountered in Hanoi had been a soldier during the war, and most recounted "fearful tales of battles and bombings along the Ho Chi Minh Trail".
When his autobiography comes out, tales of battling against adversity will underpin every page.
It contains not just heroic tales of battle but also love stories and philosophical tracts.
Sounds familiar from operetta and early cinema were seldom far away in the love songs; tales of battle were punctuated with lusty whoops and whistles.
The skill with which the people sculpted their habitat serves as a counter-narrative to those tales of "battling against nature" that abound in settler society.
