Sentence examples for tale spread from inspiring English sources

The tale spread; perhaps it was then that Hugo first learned of his disciple.

The tale spread that the sum was enormous, and any number of people claimed it as their own.

The short story is that it's a tall tale spread by Postum, a caffeine-free morning beverage invented in the late 1800s.

The meticulously logical and thoroughly implausible Sherlock Holmes was the first internationally famous serial private eye, and the idea of following one detective from tale to tale spread all over the English landscape, often with tweedy older ladies as detectives.

The Titanomachy could have picked up elements of western Anatolian folk memory as the tale spread westward.

He surely wanted to reach the summit and find a fresh perspective on the tale spread out before him.

The incestuous air of the tale spreads beyond the sexual, as when we see the kid burgling his own home or driving a wedge between his father, Julius Ciarán Hindss), and Verity Claire Forlanii), the woman who is now stealing Julius's heart.

Tales spread through social media of such vehicles parked outside upscale entertainment venues.

"Migration is likely to be the main mechanism by which folk tales spread from society to society," he said.

And he has had to beat back false tales, spread in viral e-mail messages, that he is a Muslim who attended a madrassa in Indonesia as a boy and was sworn into office on the Koran.

Another rumor was that 457 bodies had been put aboard a ship for transportation to Japan; later the bodies would be returne to the U.S. as Army dead; there were other fantastic tales spread about, stories that will probably not be dissipated in fifty years.