Sentence examples for the first tale from inspiring English sources

The first tale is the best, entangling the two in a delicious misunderstanding.

Both stories did well in comic-book form, but long before the first tale had been completed, it had been optioned by Hollywood.

The "greening" of Mrs. Jane Donaldson, the 55-year-old heroine of the first tale, gets under way thanks to widowhood, which propels her into the work force.

Last year our reviewer, Miranda Seymour, preferred the first tale, calling it "a marvelously subtle and poignant work" of "near miraculous perfection".

I used the first tale, which is the source of the others, and which Potocki uses to close the circle at the end".

The first tale in the series, Ratking, was published in 1988 to critical approbation, winning the Gold Dagger crime novel of the year award.

Some of the first tales appeared as early as 1837 in Nor and others were published as Norske folkeeventyr in 1841.

Ms. Aardema had 33 books published, the first, "Tales From the Story Hat," in 1960, and the latest, "Koi and the Kola Nuts: A Tale From Liberia," last year.

The first tales hit strongest, before the stylish flourishes peter out and the statistical bulletins (presented in a green field by a fleet of kids and Liam Neeson's voice) overwhelm.

(Although the first "Tales" won a Peabody Award, broadcast journalism's highest honor, PBS decided not to take on "More Tales of the City," the 1998 sequel. Showtime was happy to step in).

Each story has a different narrator and is set at a different time, but there is a loose progression, with the first tales covering the period just before the second world war and the last covering the 1950s.