Sentence examples for told of him from inspiring English sources

Outside India, however, rather different tales are told of him.

The chief of its five leaders, known as buluhuch, the hunter, has cultivated a Robin Hood image: stories are told of him breaking into houses and ordering the owners to pay their servants better wages.

His wife, Anita, has told of him getting out of bed in the middle of the night and assuming his batting pose, with and without a bat, in front of the bedroom mirror.

Scattered through various books, and in the stories that are still told of him in Hollywood, are clues that begin to give one a picture of Herman Mankiewicz, a giant of a man who mongered his own talent, a man who got a head start in the race to "sell out" to Hollywood.

One story told of him during this enforced convalescence describes how he used to involve the headmaster's youngest son in his subterfuges, bribing the four-year-old child to bring him books from his father's study.

It's almost bizarre reading a book about comics before Stan Lee's time, and to see stories told of him as this snot-nosed kid who came into the office because of a relative of someone who worked there, and Joe Simon gave him his first writing job.

One tells of him being given a present of a Galápagos turtle.

As soon as I heard tell of him, I hunted him down, determined to use this column on occasion to introduce drinkers of eccentric note.

One, recounted in the New Yorker this week, tells of him being given a present of a Galapagos turtle.

The "talent", in particular, tell of him regularly popping his head around their studio doors, sending emails if their show that day had filled him with extra delight.

"You have a new home now," his attendant told him, reminding him of the big move only hours away.