Sentence examples for tales long from inspiring English sources

His tales, long or short, all seem somehow to undulate, to surge and recede like the tides.

In approaching the Grimms' tales, Pullman channels the folk raconteurs who told tales long before Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published the first volume of their stories.

What's strange, then, is how very unstrange all this is: racial-passing stories are not historical oddities but strikingly familiar tales, long woven into the fabric of American life.

An apocryphal tale, long proven to be fictitious, carries an important fable for clean-tech.

A tale long overdue, the story of the black actors, directors and writers who helped shape British theatre, may not necessarily be easy to tell.

Regardless of who is at fault in Asbury Park's sorry tale, Long Branch has learned well from its sister city's woes.

In the 1960's, Mr. Fadem said, Wall Street saw many "puff stocks," which he defined as newly minted public offerings sold by issuers as "a fairy tale long on potential and rosy future earnings estimates".

In one futuristic tale, long-distance runners must tote along, during a marathon, heavy, personalized statues, many of them phallus-shaped.

They also, now and then, between tales, deliver long, ornate speeches, full of medieval rhetorical flourishes.

(Tales of long detours appear often in testimonials by surrendered wives).

Age: 4+ The magic of folk tales from long ago and far away is woven into these freshly written stories.