Sentence examples for was a yarn from inspiring English sources

It was a yarn worthy of Robert Louis Stevenson, an epic befitting of Homer, but the Italian immigration officer who deported him had no interest in the tale.

Where Mr. Updike was a stylist, a seemingly effortless weaver of dazzling, texture-filled sentences, Mr. McCourt was a yarn-spinner, whose cadences were hypnotic.

Hers is a yarn with swagger, colour and song".

Altogether, it's a yarn that's both scary good and good and scary.

Flushed with emotion and a buoyant earthy humor, "Malena" is a yarn that sticks with you.

"Flushed with emotion and a buoyant earthy humor, 'Malèna' is a yarn that sticks with you".

Fernandes shows that it's a yarn that isn't based on fact in his compelling 2004 book, Reluctant Saviour.

"It's a yarn, not a documentary," he said, hastening to add that the movie's villains are largely not Cambodians.

It must have struck Stevenson that it might be a yarn about his own attraction to the less savoury side of life.

The result is "a yarn spoken out loud" that "conjures up the stories of the Caribbean without falling into folkloric condescension," Alberto Manguel wrote here in 2000.

That pig's mouth and that "private part" of a future PM's anatomy… It's a yarn spun by "a distinguished Oxford contemporary" of Cameron's who is "himself an MP".