Sentence examples for which legend from inspiring English sources

Extinct in Britain now, these are wrynecks, an extraordinary small woodpecker around which legend has grown.

AS BEFITS a game which, legend has it, was invented on the fields of an English public school in 1823, rugby is a game of tradition.

I was going to find the glyph, which legend says is carved into a stalactite in a cenote, a freshwater underground pool.

On top are two stone chairs which, legend has it, will answer your wishes but only if you hop from one to the other.

Which is tripe, long disproved by the very book on which Legend is based, John Pearson's famed The Profession of Violence.

We saw a lot of fancy graphics recreating the emperor's unexcavated tomb, which legend tells us flows with rivers and lakes of quicksilver.

They are surely the stuff of which legends are made.

They are mainly a tradition, around which legends sprout like whiskers.

Closely connected with devotional images are all of the commemorative narrative sculptures in which legends, heroic deeds, and religious stories are depicted for the delight and instruction of peoples who lived when books and literacy were rare.

Specialists identified it as the head of Seuthes III by comparing it with coins on which legends in the Greek alphabet name the ruler whose image resembles the three-dimensional portrait.

But as a seventysomething singer who worked with Count Basie for two years in the 1960's and who has had numerous (mostly minor, often comedic) movie and television roles, he has the stuff of which legends are made.