| 单词 | tale |
| 例句 | Tell me of his death, sir, if perhaps you witnessed it, or have heard some wanderer tell the tale. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Her mind flashed to the Snow Queen, to the fairy tale she and Adelaide had told. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The full tale is stated to have been written by Barahir, grandson of the Steward Faramir, some time after the passing of the King. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z If I receive and shelter you, it is not for your tales but for your trouble, and with an eye to Zeus, who guards a guest.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “It looks like a kingdom in a fairy tale,” Gittel murmured, mesmerized. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Tonight, his brother-in-law the priest, who spent his life in the fairy tale world of the Church, dressed up like Liberace, had figured things out for once. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Each piece told its own tale of discovery, of being lost and found in a time of hardship and fear. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z The tale involves K., a close friend of one of this book’s authors. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It sounded like a fairy tale when Ellen told it later to your grandmother, only it was a fairy tale written for and acted by a fashionable ladies’ club. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z One very small splash, and the pathetic little tale that was his life would soon be done. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Millard hummed to himself and paced a little and recited a line from the tale: “the birds still went to visit him, now and again, in the land below.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z And now you have repudiated the character of Lopsang with your “tattle tale” accounts of him. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The tales about Goldstein and his underground army, she said, were simply a lot of rubbish which the Party had invented for its own purposes and which you had to pretend to believe in. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He was loth to speak and his tale was unclear, but it is beyond all doubt that he went to Mordor, and there all that he knew was forced from him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “The gas ovens I mean are no fairy tale,” Hannah said. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Everybody remembered the plague of robins that announced her return, and the tale about her watching Hannah bum was stirred up again. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z If you think I’m telling tall tales, get chummy with some white cop who works in a Black Belt district and ask him for the lowdown. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z At the end of his tale he said, “Tell them at Shath that I take back my name and my shadow.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z As Old Nan told the tale, he'd grabbed the crow in his fist and bitten its head off, so they named him Crowfood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Inside were tales from all over the world, variations on variations of familiar stories. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Another oft-repeated tale involves the death and burial of a regal figure. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But up to now all my fairy tales have been too long, so I don’t think I have much of a chance. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z She was too delicate for that strong, scratchy voice, as if her birdlike outside was just a pretty little tale she liked to tell, and the true story was something she kept deep down inside. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He held the students spellbound with tales of old Zimbabwe, and the teachers competed to lure him into their rooms. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Anansi, who bugged the sky god Nyame into giving him the first stories, and whose legend grew as his tales spread. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “Stop telling tales. He didn’t run off with anybody. He started walking one day and kept right on going.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Other times, I would just sit on Maddy's bed and listen to her make up tales herself until she dozed. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z "The Prince Who Thought He Was a Dragon" was one of Old Nan's more gruesome tales. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “She looks just like a sleeping princess in a fairy tale,” said Louisiana. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z The horrors of Nazi eugenics inspired a cautionary tale, prompting a global reexamination of the ambitions that had spurred the effort. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He—Strange the dreamer, junior librarian—had marched into the Chrysopoesium, brandishing a book of fairy tales, and presumed to share his insights on the deepest mystery of alchemy. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling one another for thousands of years. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z What signified was not the tales we told, commonplace or fantastical, but the gestures, the silence of friends as another recounted. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “Today,” says the captain in his most commanding voice, “I shall share a tale of these waters that I do not need a lore-master to verify, for this one I know by heart.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The annals of Appalachian Trail hikes are full of tales of hikers being mugged by bears in the back country of the Smokies. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z A dull writer, but less dull than usual in this tale. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z No one seemed to know for certain; every traveler told a different tale, each more terrifying than the last. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Half an hour later, after unfolding the sad tale of Methuselah, the Abbot also took his leave. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z One evening as we all sat grouped around the stove I told the kids a fairy tale I’d just read. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I tried to tell him about Eddie and how he could spin a High John tale that would rival any superhero story. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z And if someone pays you such a kindness as to make up a tale so you’ll enjoy a gingersnap, you go along with that story and enjoy every last bite. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z "Lady Lazarus" and "Daddy" and all of Anne Sexton's reimagined fairy tales. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Inside the box was a book of fairy tales. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Then again when the wind stirs they murmur; so these two also, stirred by the breath of love, were fated to tell out all their tale to each other. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Dunwing left the nest an hour before the Joseph Bell tolled lunchtime: she had to start spreading the tale of the snake. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z They had eyes for nothing but the Shadow as he stood there listening to Meggie’s voice, as if she were telling him a long-forgotten tale. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z They had been hearing tales from men who had sailed under him. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z When you’re done listening to all thirteen sides—because there are thirteen sides to every story—rewind the tapes, put them back in the box, and pass them on to whoever follows your little tale. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z This tale I must tell in full, for only Elrond has heard it yet, and that in brief; but it will bear on all that we must resolve. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z She went as often as she could to the little valley, to run errands for the woman or simply to chatter and listen, for the woman had wonderful tales to tell. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She seemed to be particularly fond of bloodthirsty stories: tales of the beheading of unhappy lovers, or princes walled up alive. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Asra liked best to tell long meandering tales about his young days on a Commensal farm in the Kunderer Valley, that broad splendid plain I had driven through coming from the border to Mishnory. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z But by claiming that the Jesuits dealt in fairy tales while he dealt in facts, Galileo was storing up more trouble for himself in Rome. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “My . . . my father told me this tale, thousands of years ago. This is the beast we are looking for.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z She had a feeling that her father would have liked Nathan—taking him fishing and telling him tall tales. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z A Barrow-wight had taken him, and he was probably already under the dreadful spells of the Barrow-wights about which whispered tales spoke. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Each time he had given those unsettling warnings, he had been airing out his own trauma, distancing himself from it by reducing it to a cautionary tale. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z All talked of the rebel colonel trussed and bagged by his own two slaves, that had been whipped by him previous—and there was an elation in this tale of justice reflected in all eyes. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Such charming tales of lovely young people who, dying in the springtime of life, were fittingly changed into spring flowers, have probably a dark background. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z We have for some time heard tales of Lord Dunmore; that he hath fled his palace; that he sitteth enthroned upon a ship-of-war, the ground itself having grown too hot for him to walk upon. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z They had fallen into one of Old Nan’s tales. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Uncle Louver says there’s critters of all shapes and sizes out here. He tells quite the tale about goings-on in the woods.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “No, no, don’t be a brute. I’ve had an exhausting day too. Don’t run away and leave me. I’m quite harmless, really I am. I suppose Max has been telling tales about me to you?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z It felt like I could shape the story, work the words like clay and sculpt a tale for everyone to see. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z It is a fair tale, though it is sad, as are all the tales of Middle-earth, and yet it may lift up your hearts.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Tell of your last minutes in the air. Finish your tale.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z And here, he heard the yew tree say behind him, is the fourth tale. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z One of these rare tales told of a mysterious object called a book, which held the key to the greatest magic Kelanna had ever known. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z For many years, once I was sensible that she exaggerated or fabricated the tales she told me, I bore the humiliation of this mark of her disesteem. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z It is a different tale altogether, and if all goes well, I may have a shot at telling it one of these days. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite my misery and the uncertainty of what lay ahead, the hope in my breast fashioned a life as heroic and happy as the tales I had read in books. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The men who inhabited the first light at Hobie’s, who drank coffee and exchanged tales until the stores were opened and the call to labor was sounded, began to fill up the restaurant. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And the tales of other Indians’ encounters with the strangers were alike in the same way. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He was more fascinated with Mr. Taylor’s morbid interest in his story than with the tale itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The tale applies to you: I promise you great trouble if you touch that bow. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Like someone who has fallen asleep during an exciting tale, I longed to hear the story’s end. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She splits her time between her family in Korea and Uncle Gene in California, and by the time she makes her way to us for Thanksgiving, she always has a treasure trove of tales. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Shaped by fairy tales, she thought, which made it better than every straight nose in the world. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She herself had written a tale in which a humble woodcutter saved a princess from drowning and ended by marrying her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z But even in fairy tales, these kindly old gentlemen with their fascinating offers are not always what they seem to be. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He told me tales: how he spitted Saracens upon his lance, cleaved them in twain, slashed open their skulls, to save the Holy City. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z “And why did you tell me the tale of Agnes? Was it to frighten me?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I could regale you with tales of how we had great fun on the trip, but I won't. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Moby Dicky to be precise. Good morning, class. I see you’ve had ample time to meet your new classmate and welcome her with tales of dead bodies and dens of iniquity.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Father roars with laughter when he tells this tale. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z In a different tale, the khan has an odyssey in the Azerbaijani hill country. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Luckily Shasta had lived all his life too far south in Calormen to have heard the tales that were whispered in Tashbaan about a dreadful Narnian demon that appeared in the form of a lion. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z It was probably just peaceful despair and relief at final and complete abnegation, now that Judith was about to immolate the frustration’s vicarious recompense into the living fairy tale. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, I don’t. All this talk of fairy tales.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Historians tend to discount Gorges’s tale, partly because his memoirs, dictated late in life, mix up details, and partly because the notion that Tisquantum was abducted twice just seems incredible. “utterly void,” Dermer reported. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Recall,” she would say to me, “that you are a prince”; and I began to doubt her reiterations and resent her impostures—the tales of orchid thrones and panther steeds. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Some she had invented to entertain her children; others were old folk tales told to her by her own mother and her grandmother. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z There were tales of flying books and pencils and words that pierce the soul. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In all the tales, the price for a life was a life — to bring back the dead, a newborn child would be given up. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, not every ugly believed such an outrageous tale, but a few did. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Ever since then, we know that those people who can make magic with their words, who can make poems and sagas and weave tales, have tasted the mead of poetry. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The thought raised a cold sweat on her skin, for if they were real, then all the consequences in those tales must be real, too. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Would you like to tell the tale, Your Majesty?” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “Don’t become the next cautionary tale,” Ms. Ramos had said, giving a strong warning to us rising ninth-graders in the room. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Mark embellished the tale a little more each time he’d told it. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z As I found a new outfit for the honey-colored Barbie in my hand and combed her thick black hair, I recounted my tale of woe to my little sister. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “We’re not asking you for no fairy tale,” Ma Charles said. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The end, the tale of what happened to the Trojan women when Troy fell, comes from a play by Sophocles’ fellow playwright, Euripides. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z She wasn’t like the Mother Earth you might read about in a children’s fairy tale. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The kind of fabrics that princesses in fairy tales wear. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z His tales had a bite and a message and could be delivered over and over again. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “A nervous breakdown. I dislike that expression, it has a very old wives’ tale vibe to it. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Mom liked to say that Dad could talk a blue streak, spinning tales of jobs he’d never had and college degrees he’d never earned. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “With that long braid, you could be a princess in a fairy tale—Rapunzel perhaps.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z They read my insistence as mere obstinacy, as foolishness, something that would quickly pass; and they had no notion how desperately serious the tale had made me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Eliza dismissed the wild tales with a shake of her head. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "Very well, let's go on. The tale of the court armorer was all lies, of course." Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z As I watch them, I think of a tale taught me by Dr. Trefusis in those days following my first whipping, when he tutored me upon antique slavery and its discontents. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z O Pomp—chief usher of horrors—you who sought out death in tales, you who relished death most—now you are engulfed by your own terrors—and I, who am helpless, pray for thee. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Pindar in the early fifth century tells the current tale about the feast Tantalus made the gods and protests that it is not true. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “I still don’t know how or where you came across the ridderak—but I think that’s a tale for another time.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The tale made Gertrude merry, but I did not share her mirth. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “I think of it as more of a hunting story than a fairy tale,” Kaisa said, “though there are fairies in it. Another huntress told it to me, when I was a little girl.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Is she the one who told you that tale about Niamh?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He seemed to be searching for something more to say, but then repeated, “Yes, very nice. An unusual tale.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Most people’s understanding of what it means to be an American is founded upon such tales, which together form a myth-like origin story. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z I told her a fairy tale about a prince with a long nose who loved a princess with a short nose. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z There were tales that Captain Wallace’s ghost appeared to chase off intruders. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But it was not her business to think for me, or to seek a place for me: besides, in her eyes, how doubtful must have appeared my character, position, tale. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z "The wildling woman could give Old Nan lessons in telling tales, I think," he said when Bran was done. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Ron added to Harry as the group of second-year girls who had been listening to his chilling tale departed. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Those tales had unlocked things that ordinary metal keys never could. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z One night long ago, he had kept Manolo and me, as well as Elsa, in stitches with tales of his journalistic escapades. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At breakfast, son Robert told tales of Lee’s surrender. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The principal difference between them and tribal shamans is that modern lawyers tell far stranger tales. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It's a tale told well, like all good stories, and it doesn't take long to lose myself in early twentieth-century Minnesota. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Of particular interest were details that could be used to humiliate and discredit Ellsberg—tales of recreational drug use, and rumors that Daniel and Patricia enjoyed visiting nudist camps. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It floated off my tongue like the beginning of a fairy tale. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Not if you stayed five years or six to hear how hard it was for the flower of the Akhaians; you’d go home weary, and the tale untold. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms by knights or princes or wolves. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Beside her, Ess listened, mouth hanging slightly open, to the tale of a tree that gave everything it had to a boy—its apples and its branches, until the tree was nothing but a stump. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z There was a murmur of agreement, and for a moment all present seemed to be considering whether or not it would be proper to divulge to me the tale concerning this local personage. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Miss Sadie was an awful purveyor of the future, but she sure knew how to spin a tale from the past. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z After our baths, we sat, all five of us, on an enormous carpet around Abuelita’s bed telling her the tales of our adventures along the bank of the Rio Grande. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z If you give me your attention—I know it’s valuable—I promise I won’t waste it with some “poor me” tale of immigrant woe. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Shepherd was an acquired taste: He told tales in novelistic form about his childhood in the Midwest, his life in the army, and his adult misadventures in New York City. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z And if all his tales were lies, well, that was the cost of passage to Meereen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “It’s a long story. Ask Lena about it sometime; I believe she knows the tale.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z There were many stories this night; several recounted in tongues I knew not to groups of four or five; a few sung; some ancient tales told. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z His account is vague, but one imagines that *These preposterous tales may actually be true; other amazing Smith stories certainly are. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z There were so many words, so many tales to tell. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Before the first week of term was up, awesome tales about the Headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, began to filter through to the newcomers. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z At any moment, she might see her baba emerge with tales of adventure and a pocket full of sesame candy. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Hugo also remembered that sometimes at night, Father would read to him from amazing adventure stories byjules Verne and a collection of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales, which were Hugo’s favorites. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z She wasn't particularly fond of fairy tales, but the book looked attractive. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The Wreck of the Hesperus’ is by a poet called Longfellow, and it is a very dramatic tale. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “She believed them and now is looking for fairy tales.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Well, actually it’s a tale of how one woman, with an blind eye to stereotypes, had the eraser that took “National Spokesperson for the Plight of Black People” off my forehead. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z And when he had finished he sat with folded arms and a pleased smile, as though waiting to be commended for the humor, the clarity, and the candor of his traveler’s tale. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Amongst the tales they related to me were those of wars fought by our ancestors in defense of the fatherland. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They tell tales of Pa forming his own army, trying to recruit more soldiers to fight the Khmer Rouge. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z With this cautionary tale in mind, let us begin by asking a question which seems too obvious to need asking but is in fact an essential preliminary: What is a machine? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Virgil thought of Paulito and the Jungle Dragon, which had been one of Lola’s favorite stories before she switched to tales about crocodiles and rocks eating children. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “I would tell the tale of how all the gods of MidPass and Alke united to defeat a powerful foe. Yes, I would tell that story.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Her mother had told her plenty of fairy tales, of course. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She told no one, but concocted a ‘thrilling tale’, and boldly carried it herself to Mr. Dashwood, editor of the Weekly Volcano. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Their faces were stem and strong, and some of them had done terrible things, but they were Starks every one, and Bran knew all their tales. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Joe knew people living in the City and some who’d been there and come home with tales to make Baltimore weep. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z But this isn’t a fairy tale, and there was no spell. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He didn’t want to hang a man simply because he had constructed a seductive tale. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But she tried anyway: ‘“And here begins the tale of mistletoe, that most unassuming and gentlest of plants. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z When I tell him of his father’s madness, his mother’s grief and their unfortunate love, what will he make of this true but unbelievable tale? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Jim Button was motherless, too—and all you found in fairy tales were wicked stepmothers; heartless, jealous stepmothers...the list could go on forever. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He spun her a long tale about who he was and why he had come, with not a word of truth in it, at the end of which the goddess smiled and patted him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z His hair had grown out longer and shaggier, and his face was leaner, so he looked less like an imp and more like one of those willowy elves in the fairy tales. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Maybe it was the tales Lola told him about evil three-headed monkeys that thrived in the darkness, or her stories of bad children who were plucked up by birds in the dead of night. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z The man was smirking as he told the tale. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z More children, he told himself, the girl is not the only one, but Old Nan’s tale of Gendel’s children came back to him as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z These tales of Africa I remember best, because of their strangeness; but most of our Regiment have never seen the country, and remember it only as a place of legend. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z She had heard many tales about men and women who had been foolish enough to make wishes in the presence of fairies, and for a moment she wondered what she was getting herself into. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Sidhean had said that what he felt for her was as real as she was, and from what she recalled from the fairy tales, a glamour was only an illusion. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I find pretty fabric shoulder bags for the twins and Granddad insists on buying me a book of fairy tales at the Edgartown bookshop. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z She was supposed to be with him, not eating tube cookies and speaking in fairy tales. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Sit Stephan began a tale about exhausted horses and a charge against a dragon. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z One day she started in on an “Uncle Remus” tale only to discover Tashi had the original version of it! The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z This was one of my favorite tales, the story of our people. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z “The great dust sea, it’s called in the tales. What else but the Elmuthaleth? And the funeral pyre the size of a moon?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z ‘But I wish that he had come this way. I desired to tell Master Gimli that my tale is now thirty-nine.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The illustration is of a knight on horseback, like a knight from a fairy tale. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “I am nae tired—but only for the ache within my heid. I can relate the tale. Thanks to you, I will take whisky, Ma’am. Let see, where did yon stour begin?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "I shall—but I must warn you: This tale is darker and bloodier than the last. I wouldn't want to upset any of the present company." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Perhaps they’d grown so used to hearing the tall tales of their own adventures that they truly believed they would survive when all others had failed. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He kept me one full month to hear the tale of Troy, the ships and the return of the Akhaians, all which I told him point by point in order. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “I mean that your friend wants us to chase fairy tales!” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “The old man paused and then continued, ‘If you will unreservedly confide to me the particulars of your tale, I perhaps may be of use in undeceiving them. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z I sleep like the little white girl slept in that fairy tale for what feels like a hundred years. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Wab, sensing a dark turn in the tale, tried to cut her off. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He appeared at dawn on Sunday like a prince in a fairy tale, riding a horse with silver stirrups and a velvet blanket, and he left town after mass. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Long stories and epic tales used music to draw in the audience and to help the reciter’s memorization. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Even now the people who came by her place, they talked and talked, unburdening themselves of all manner of tales and stories. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I hope you will find this tale of sufficient interest to yourself and your readers to warrant its publication. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z Like with the phrase “Once upon a time,” a storyteller will say, “And so the following night, Scheherazade began her tale once again.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I want to ask the magazine The Prince if they’ll take one of my fairy tales, under a pseudonym, of course. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z As night fell and the light of the fire began to shine out brightly he began to tell them tales to keep their minds from fear. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Aye,” he said, finishing the bow, “with plenty of young men eager to protect her. But that’s a tale for another day.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z And even though I wasn’t familiar with the tales they told, I felt like I wasn’t just reading about them. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z In shifts, the girls and pirates told the tale of what had happened. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Three years stuck in Ojo de Agua, and I was like that princess put to sleep in the fairy tale. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The two young Travellers cut a great dash in the Shire with their songs and their tales and their finery, and their wonderful parties. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Each night before she went to sleep, she chose one fairy tale to read until the light of her candle stub died. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The bassoonist, a man of sallow and heavy cast, said, “You carry tales.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z When his father told him that long story, it really seemed like Jack and the Beanstalk . . . some fairy tale mess. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z These tales are pure entertainment, the sort of thing people would tell each other on a long winter’s evening. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z And they were filled with grief and wonder at the tale that he told. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Poppy always included camels in his childhood stories and folk tales, but they’d mostly vanished from this land since then. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Anatole was standing right there but seemed to ignore the tales. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like meeting a fairy tale — Snow White, in the flesh. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “Thee seemed different somehow. Is it like paradise, the way he says? Sometimes I mistrust he’s just telling tales to an old woman.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I think maybe I’m missing some kind of self-preservation alarm in my head because this has cautionary tale written all over it. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Jon remembered Old Nan's tales of the savage folk who drank blood from human skulls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z "My dear sister has told me your tale, Sikander Aziz, and that of your brother. It's unfortunate that he discovered the flower of immortality. It will bring great suffering to the human world." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z “Come, my young friend! Tell me how you came by such a fortune—a tale worth hearing, no doubt!” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The old grandmaster had many tales to tell, and listening to him was like reading a book of chess history. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t want to tell tales on other people.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z His life seems at once to be a tale by Horatio Alger, a fulfillment of the American dream, and a warn- ing about unintended consequences. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z I took a deep breath, then reached for the Story Box, pulling on the thread that connected tales from all over the world, and the lid opened, spilling bright golden light into the flooding room. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Njemile regaled him with tales of her first foray into online dating. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z But they’d always seemed like ghost stories and fairy tales, stories that could never come true. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z They look like glass, like the ones Cinderella wears, straight out of a fairy tale. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z It is my suspicion that he is too sensible of how words desert him to tell tales in company; but I wish ardently that he should speak freely. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z There was no song or tale could prepare the mind for this sight. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Yet the old red tales were still told around driftwood fires and smoky hearths all across the islands, even behind the high stone halls of Pyke. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I have come to tell you the second tale, the monster said. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z When he was feeling easiest, usually around noon, I would ask him for a myth or tale. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Not to know the end of the tale filled me with a sense of emptiness, loss. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s none of your business. And I’ll thank you,” she added angrily to Ron, who had just appeared at George’s elbow, laden with merchandise, “not to tell tales about me to these two!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z She was happy to discover that she could get through most of the first story, a fairy tale about a girl who wore a big hat that wouldn’t come off, ever. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Got all these Alkeans in a fuss ’cause of some tales you can bring to life.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z I remembered him jacklegging my fish, I remembered him telling confusing tales to the new-free folks, I remembered him thinking ’bout making me travel with that conjurer, Sir Charles. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z "I beg you allow me to accompany you to the Eyrie, to see the end of the tale as I saw its beginnings." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I knew this to be an old wives' tale, a myth. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z If life is a fairy tale, I’m pretty sure I’ve been cast as the princess. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “But to those who wish to cross the Bridge of Forgetting, I always offer a choice. And I will offer the same to you. First, will you hear my tale, daughters of the gods?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z She was apparently a great expert on these creatures and she made it very clear to me that her witch stories, unlike most of the others, were not imaginary tales. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Viserys told her tales of knights so poor that they had to sleep beneath the ancient hedges that grew along the byways of the Seven Kingdoms. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The diners and drinkers at neighboring tables have, over the course of the innkeeper's tale, let their own conversations fall to the wayside and have begun listening to ours. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The tales were not all about fairies — some were hunting stories, some were adventures — but many of them were. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I would be told of in fairy tales myself. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The Barrow-wights we know by many names; and of the Old Forest many tales have been told: all that now remains is but an outlier of its northern march. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He especially likes mystery stories and tales of horror and the supernatural. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z They knew the tale, but they looked forward to the ending. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Halflings! But they are only a little people in old songs and children’s tales out of the North. Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She had been reading an old fairy tale that afternoon, and when she finished the story, she looked up through the leaves across the river and saw a woman there. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They pressed round their young wizard and asked for the tale again. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z They told the incredibly dramatic—and highly improbable—tale of their escape from PSF custody over our shared meal of fruit snacks, stale Pringles, and Twinkies. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z His plan was to leave a single Greek behind in the deserted camp, primed with a tale calculated to make the Trojans draw the horse into the city—and without investigating it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z However, I’m not sure how modesty figures in my retelling the tale to you. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The Daily’s next headline told the tale, or at least the beginning of it: “Sweepsters Turn Out with Icicles on Their Oars.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “We are amazed it has taken you so long to ask. Well, it is a marvelous tale,” said Vikus, taking a deep breath to begin it. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It was a collection of Norwegian fairy tales, and I read the first one. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Ruva lay relaxed in the arms of the chief wife of the house, who had also been listening to the tale. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought fairy tales were supposed to have happy endings. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z On one side of her, a torch-juggler has amassed a large crowd, and on the other, a Tribal Kehanni spins her tales, her voice rising and swooping like a bird in flight. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z They are a gift, these tales, the milk of solace, and he knoweth well who teaches me, that he grants a boon in thus recalling me to former ages. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “Each of you has a past, present, and future that was robbed from you. I, too, was robbed. Hear my tale. Then you can decide if you still wish to cross the Bridge of Forgetting.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “The police will be there soon. You and Mr. Sloan can tell your tales together.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z “This Academy would not be built on iron if it were only a tall tale. Do you realize how much effort—how much magic it took to raise this place?” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z They lost the thread of his tale and shifted uneasily, looking aside at one another. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The outsiders, of course, thought that Remedios the Beauty had finally succumbed to her irrevocable fate of a queen bee and that her family was trying to save her honor with that tale of levitation. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your songs, or by the empty pots made less tragic by your tales? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘As for what I wished to say, I have said it: What may you be doing, and what tale can you tell of yourselves? As for my name!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z On the walls between the arches hung tapestries woven with scenes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, tales of gods and humans transformed by love. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z In the back of his mind, Ekon thought of an old story, the tale of another old scholar of this temple who’d gone missing without a trace. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z This was not a fairy tale, this was the real, the adult world in which frogs did not address princesses, and the only messages were the ones that people sent. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z For it is a long tale, full of deeds great and terrible, and briefly though Elrond spoke, the sun rode up the sky, and the morning was passing ere he ceased. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z She had heard tales of people who tried to go out into the Unknown Regions. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She charmed them with heartwarming tales of making popadam in her grandmother’s kitchen while simultaneously introducing the old woman to the joys of hip-hop. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Lord Gyles, more grey of face than ever, stammered out a tale of seeing the High Septon spilled from his litter, screeching prayers as the crowd swept over him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A man strode by in a pristine white coat and high fur cap, like a hero from a Slavic fairy tale. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Everyone we knew had a tale of homes destroyed, families torn apart, and heartbreaking loss. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z “For no one returns from there to tell us tales.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z But even the deafest and most stay-at-home began to hear queer tales; and those whose business took them to the borders saw strange things. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z A real fairy tale this time, “The Shoemaker and the Elves.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z But it is also the setting for two starkly different tales about breaching those divides. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z According to some tales, he hammered steel drilling spikes into granite for a railroad company. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z If this were a fairy tale, I would tell you there was something magical about Samar. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “Don’t you know, Ellemire? Strange isn’t just a librarian. He’s practically a scholar himself. Of fairy tales.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “I can see that if we allow the slightest divagation on the subject of your charms, we shall never have time to hear the tale of your escape.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z His tales about Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and the Freedom Riders encouraged us to be more than just tourists on our impending trip to Europe. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z In her turn, Helen Burns asked me to explain, and I proceeded forthwith to pour out, in my own way, the tale of my sufferings and resentments. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z We drink punch and tell one another lying tales of our experiences. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z But in response the great tactician said: “Nurse, no need to tell me tales of these. I will have seen them, each one, for myself. Trust in the gods, be quiet, hold your peace.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He told the rest of the fourth tale. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z She rushed back to the bed and stared in horror at the dark red stain and die tale it told. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She has never not seemed strange to me, like a creature from a fairy tale, pale as a ghost. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In nearly every one are tales of academic success against tremendous odds: a battered wife or a combat veteran or a laid-off worker on the way to a better life. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z ‘Where did you learn such tales, if all the land is empty and forgetful?’ asked Peregrin. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He looked over at Amari as he finished the tale with a wink he saved for her alone. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Kira half listened to his tale as she continued to smooth the cloth in her hand. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But why tell the same tale that I told last night in hall to you and to your lady? The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Unmedicated sleep was impossible, a fairy tale, some remote childhood dream. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I wove a tale of a group of black boys trespassing upon the property of a white man and the lynching that followed. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a child's vow from fairy tales, where breaking it was a curse, and it was more powerful to Lazlo than any vow on god or monarch would have been. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Her bright voice fills my room like the music of a lute, and she is like a troubadour with her tales, though none are bawdy or bad. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z "Some loose tongues spread tales of the preparations for Tyrek's wedding feast, and these wretches got it in their heads they should be feasted too. His Grace led a sortie and sent them scurrying." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Lyra heard these tales at first with glee and later with despondency. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z A few dozen angry men chase us for a while, swinging pitchforks and baseball bats, although it’s mostly for the benefit of the tale they’ll get to tell at dinner tonight. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Of course, St. John Rivers’ name came in frequently in the progress of my tale. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z There was always an easy tale of woe to tell inquiring black adults, and whites didn’t care, unless they were looking for sport. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Now tell me your tale, and do not hurry!’ said Treebeard. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “This will be a tale to tell our grandchildren,” Cletus had declared the day they set out from his father’s castle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z As if it were a tale of Greek myth and the gods had heard the cry, the ship banged against the skull-shaped jetty. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z On the mundane, factual level, though, this resonant tale is wrong: Nature has always used fire as a mallet to beat landscapes into other forms. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was a tale that any northmen knew well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Pynto is a very good man,” he announced, then settled down to tell her of the time he seized the spice ship, a tale she had heard a dozen times before. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And there is another monolithic tale which never changes. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a good tale and the Trojans never questioned it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z After a time, I glanced up from the trance in which the tale had engaged me to find the men of my mess staring mistrustfully at me and at my book. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The cheap pulp tales enlarged my knowledge of the world more than anything I had encountered so far. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “She taught me lots more about bees than just how to keep them. She used to tell me one tall bee tale after another.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Brother Jim usually got bored and asked to be excused, but I always stayed, fascinated by their tales. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “But wouldn’t that mean there were never any simple tales at all?” he asks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Malcolm was enthralled by this tale, and plied his knife and fork with only half his attention. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Her father’s newspapers contained tales of explorers, unknown lands, pygmy peoples. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z And he told her horrendous tales of what happened to crews that were captured by the Barbary pirates—men put in chains—sold as slaves. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He had heard tales of the Orcs to make the blood run cold. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z One time, the girl remembered, the Sailor’s Wife had walked her rounds with her and told her tales of the city’s stranger gods. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I shall not weary you with a long tale,” Gwydion said. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z “What you are saying is simply — they are simply tales told to children.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z On the way back from Manhattan, she’d regaled them with tales of her life in Paris, where she’d been educated, and the few memories she had of being a young girl in Port-au-Prince. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The moon lit the wide front hall in pale ribbons, turning the dust and broken bits of chair and wainscoting and climbing vines from feral houseplants into fairy tale turrets. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Not the underbelly, as certain old tales would have it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Your gallant tales are worth all the harp strings in Prydain. And you, Taran and Doli, must promise to tell me more of your famous deeds. But first, I must find Lord Gwydion.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Gertrude seated herself on a stool near me, erect as though she inhabited her throne, and began her tale. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z A flower that blooms only at night sounds like something out of a fairy tale. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z For Pomp, who begs tales of horror and enchantment, Olakunde recounted tales of the red monkey who with withered lips enounced sacred knowledge to the oracles of Oyo. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z It reminded Meggie of one of her favorite stories, the tale of the Selfish Giant who wouldn't let children into his garden. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “I guess I was scared of seeing him as a crazy person. The tales got wilder and wilder as the years went by. That he’d had five wives, who all left him, for example.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The difference in experience between the two labs told the tale: to the veteran experimentalists of the Cavendish, contamination was a familiar and well-understood phenomenon, but not so to the brash bombardiers of Berkeley. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When I was certain both of them were soundly asleep, I dared to fetch Mandy’s other present, the book of fairy tales, out of my bag. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Only in cartoons and fairy tales and greeting cards do endings have glitter. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Their curiosity always got the best of them, making him feel like a science experiment, a cautionary tale. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z At Girls' Lodge, he heard, the girls talked long into the evening, retelling their own tales to each other. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In the box, he had slipped a note written in Farsi: Amir jan, I hope you discover many tales on these keys. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In fairy tales, things are always changing into something else. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Even the two daughters left their grouchy mother and sat mesmerized by the fantastic tales. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z There were the Picketts, Nelson, who’d played tackle for Georgia Tech and now worked for Parke-Davis, the pharmaceutical company, and his wife, Bonnie, who was always reading the miraculous tales in Guideposts. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I don't know where they get these tales. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Tall, merry, and rich, those girls were like princesses in a fairy tale. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z A storybook might have held the secret of azoth, and knowledge of stories might have earned him a place in the party, but he hardly thought that tales would give him an edge now. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z ‘You shall not stand. You shall sit beside me, as long as I remain in my own lands, and lighten my heart with tales.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Red Jack watches me but says nothing, his face a pleasant half smile that could easily mean he’s enjoying a fine tale or he’s planning on stealing someone’s watch. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z But Cantor’s hierarchy of infinities would tell a different tale: it would show just how little space the rational numbers take up on the number line. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “This isn’t some fairy tale,” Ivy said after a few seconds. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z So profoundly responsive a chord had the tale struck in me that the threats of my mother and grandmother had no effect whatsoever. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z In the escape of Ba’s tales, they could forget that Minli was not with them and imagine that she was there listening. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z I waited, feeling my body shake from her tale. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z He found himself engaged again, word for word, gesture for gesture, in the argument with his daughter with which this tale began. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She said, “And if I remember correctly you and your mother had quite different tastes in books. I remember your mother used to like mysteries and fairy tales, isn’t that so?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z It is time, the monster said, for the fourth tale. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Soon others chimed in with their own woeful tales. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z His face glows with wine and sentiment as he regales me with the tale of how he wooed Marlena. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Then, to be on the safe side, I wanted somebody I didn't know and wouldn't go on knowing—a kind of impersonal, priestlike official, as in the tales of tribal rites. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z It is a prettily told tale, after the manner of Ovid. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Sam told the tale in a calm, dead voice, as if it were something that had happened to someone else, not to him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z This raises the question of how a careful writer can distinguish a legitimate rule of usage from a grandmother’s tale. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The witches listened wide-eyed to this tale of a world so like theirs and yet so different. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I had always assumed they were our generation’s version of a fairy tale. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Odysseus, listening, found sweet pleasure in the tale, among the Phaiakian mariners and oarsmen. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Gertrude was jealous of her son’s company and spent many hours with him, laughing at his clever stories and hearing tales of his journeys. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The story I think back on the most is the one from the conclusion: the tale of blind auditions and Abbie Conant’s confrontation with the Munich Philharmonic. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z But the old woman’s cadence reminds me of the Tribespeople anyway, and I’m pulled into the tale. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The rest of the long ride passed swiftly as he filled her pretty head with tales of Winterfell and war. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She should be reading fairy tales and taking her nickels to the sweet shop for a bag of penny candy. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z They returned to their homes and families and, for years to come, whispered secret tales of their deeds during the great manhunt. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z When I was finally allowed to read it, I very well knew this was no simple tale of rafting down a river but the everlasting story of America itself, with all our glory and shame. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A sort of mystical fairy tale, it romanticized and celebrated the simple life of German farmers living harmoniously with nature on their German soil. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Her story is told in full only by the late writers Ovid and Apollodorus, but it is an old tale. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no space where Nhamo might fit herself in, and so she waited patiently in the doorway as Grandmother finished her tale. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Both sides of the wall had heard the tale of misadventure in all its gory detail. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z A few tales, names recited as solemnly as the words of a prayer, the fading memory of a red door . . . was Vaes Dothrak to be her home forever? A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z ‘Time wears on, and the mists are blowing away, or would if you strange folk did not wreathe yourselves in smoke. What of the tale?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z So at Augustus Day School, whenever the other kids asked, Aru told tales. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Momma loved those stories, and when the paper would come we'd read them together, marveling over tales of a frontier untouched by the blight of the restless dead. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z ‘All that has happened since we parted on the bridge would be a long tale. Will you not first give us news of the hobbits? Did you find them, and are they safe?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z ‘But no! That came in his tale, long long ago. This is my tale, and it is ended now. Good-bye!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “However, the legend of which you speak is such a very sensational, even ludicrous tale —” But the whole class was now hanging on Professor Binns’s every word. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Though she knew it was meant to be a cautionary tale, now that she had seen that fairy, she thought that Kathleen’s fate was not so cruel after all. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The first was by stealing tales from this world and mine, whichever ones he could get his thieving hands on. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “This is fiction, Ophelia, not a true history. Often we love to read of deeds and desires we would not dare to perform ourselves. That is the pleasure of a tale like this.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z But soon enough they are conversing easily, as they had before, exchanging tales of their respective holidays. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They sat next to each other, Cora with a history or a romance, and Molly turning the pages of a fairy tale. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In turn, the princess told the mouse fairy tales, drew him pixelated portraits, and made him little crayon drawings. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z It shows especially well his love of details and the skillful way he uses them to make a fairy tale seem realistic. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “If there’s a loop entrance nearby, this tale may tell us how to find it. It’s a short one, luckily.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He thinks of Granny, not yet this old, but blind, forgetful, full of needs that must be cared for and tales everyone half listens to. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z "When I was smuggling, I learned that some men be-lieve everything and some nothing. We met both sorts. And there is another tale being spread as well—" "Yes." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z And liked among men because he never cheated in a game, egged a stupid fight on, or carried tales, and he left their women alone. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z When he said that I remembered the tale I’d heard about him cutting down his father’s mast. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Wrapped up in his tale, Alex didn’t seem to notice his parents’ befuddled, slightly horrified expressions as they tried to follow along. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z She loved listening to her brother’s tales—everything was an adventure to him. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z She spoke graciously to him and Odysseus told her a tale of meeting her husband on his way to Troy which made her weep until he pitied her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But it was not a tale that any hobbit liked to listen to, even by a comfortable fireside far away. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z "And King Harren learned that thick walls and high towers are small use against dragons," the tale always ended. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In the Anansi tales, Gum Baby was a doll Anansi used to trap an African fairy while he was on a quest. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Ned would not speak of the mother, not so much as a word, but a castle has no secrets, and Catelyn heard her maids repeating tales they heard from the lips of her husband's soldiers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z "Honestly,” Anne bubbled, "it’s like stepping into a fairy tale three-deep with godmothers and with wishes that come true.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the Blue Graces took up the tale from there. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z An ugly little girl and a sad fool, and maester makes three . . . now there is a tale to make men weep. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z "Yes, rich, that's the very word I was searching for, the very word. You have a gift for words, Lord Tyrion, if I might say so. And you tell a droll tale. Droll, yes." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The tale had humor and grief, and I enjoyed telling it. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The tale is not yet told, it said. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z So he joked around with the children, telling them monstrous tales, making himself into an evil, scary being. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z But its scientific findings, its epic discoveries, its travelers’ tales, do return. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We came, we saw, we conquered, and we lived to tell the tale. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z But then he too began to look at the Lady of O, wondering if indeed this was such mortal beauty as the old tales told of. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it was a fairy tale that hadn’t been told yet. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z And each night Scheherazade weaves the tales together so that they always end on a cliffhanger. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I am disappearing into a fairy tale forest. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It is time for the third tale, the monster said from behind him. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z It was the first week of Twelfthmoon, on the far side of the Elmuthaleth, and Strange the dreamer—library stowaway and scholar of fairy tales—had never been thirstier, or more full of wonder. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But all that is merely conjecture; no history books survived to tell the tale. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She responds with tales from her childhood spent in back rooms of theaters. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z While we lay there, watching the fragments of Swift-Tuttle burning and fizzing across the black of the desert night, I had to endure the entire humiliating tale. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z My first poem was titled “The American Dream,” a tale of a woman immigrating to this country—“the land of unlimited opportunity”—and barely being able to feed her family. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “This isn’t a fairy tale, Red,” he would say. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z She had first heard the tale of Lysara when she was very young, for it was a popular one, but she hadn’t given it a thought in years. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am going to love fencing in here. It will truly feel like a fairy tale.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Some of the tales I heard were long and tall, but I believed them all. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z We listened vaguely to Our Father’s tale of the putative Mercedes truck. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It is as futile to seek the past there as in a refuse of dishes encircling a table, each with its own crust of gravy, its own tale of bone and crackling. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I pick the path through the trees, and it’s like stepping into a fairy tale. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z “Let me go, and I will tell you a tale passing strange.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z A fairy tale that started with “once upon a time” and ended with “happily ever after.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z At that age, fairy tales were dark, simple things, their hidden metaphors worn down so that they fit comfortably in a child’s grasping hands. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z "I want to hear this tale of yours." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The tale made the world around me be, throb, live. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Come, sit with us and eat. I would hear more of your tale. Dulcamara, you may leave us.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Marguerite’s is a story well suited for a book of sad romance, I think, remembering how I used to relish such tales. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He was like the sleeping prince in a fairy tale, and she had the urge to kiss him. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Along with everyone else, he had received his own bound and illustrated tale of love, adversities overcome, reunion and a wedding. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Because of the lurid tales we read and our vivid imaginations and, probably, memories of our brief but hectic lives, Bailey and I were afflicted—he physically and I mentally. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z These are the tales I wish to hear. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “Surely this is no fit matter for your holy tale.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z "I'm telling tales, my dear, not lies. Lies are mean things, and tales are meant to entertain." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z Their earliest tales seem to glimpse a time when they dwelt in the upper vales of Anduin, between the eaves of Greenwood the Great and the Misty Mountains. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Her voice was soft now, like someone telling a fairy tale. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The wind was gusting, cold as the breath of the ice dragon in the tales Old Nan had told when Jon was a boy. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Shucks, my ma use to work for rich white folks and you ought to hear the tales she used to tell. ...” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Judge of my emotions upon being asked to recount her tale. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “You’ve been a ranger for a dozen years. You survived the Fist of the First Men and Craster’s Keep, and came back to tell the tale. The younger men look up to you.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Mary Alice and I carried the tale home that a suspicious type had come off the train in citified clothes and a stiff straw hat. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z It was a grim tale, but operative No. 28 was buoyed by the discovery. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The long story was ended, but the audience sat silent, entranced by the tale. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The way she held her hand was like a nightmare, like a Halloween ghost, like someone under a witch’s spell in a fairy tale. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I'd grown up with the tales of Gilgamesh—there had to be hundreds. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Former colonists staggered back to Waltha after years in the bush, and Maria listened to their tales of tangled jungles and swarming insects. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z This was a strange tale, but it did not shake my faith; and I replied earnestly, “You are all mistaken; I know the murderer. Justine, poor, good Justine, is innocent.” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z No matter how die tale was told, the end was the same. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The Moon Lady plucked her lute and began her singing tale. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “He would be grieved to know that I read such tales, which men say are not fit for a lady’s ear.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Around them, the Bochinche swarmed with rumors, tall tales, and nightmares about the Manhattan riots. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z She put it on, and her robe over it, belted tight, and considered her face in the mirror: her huge haunted eyes and the tale they told of nightmares and sleepless days. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The first tale I heard about him when I arrived at the Great Place was that the reverend had chased away a dangerous ghost with only a Bible and a lantern as weapons. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The houses looked bent and crooked, like houses in a fairy tale. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “But according to Beedle the Bard, they wouldn’t want to come back, would they?” said Harry, thinking about the tale they had just heard. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It was off center, like something out of a fairy tale. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z I treasure tales of escape, be they from Alcatraz or Nazi concentration camps or the dungeon in which Dumas’s Count of Monte Cristo was unjustly imprisoned for fifteen years. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “What I mean is, I think there’s some truth in every story—every story worth telling, at least—but especially in fairy tales.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z And to pass the hours on line, Bodega tales began winding around the avenue. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z They were only old, familiar tales about the fairies that I changed here and there, but sometimes I made Mother laugh. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonourable peace; and the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z But lest you still should think my tale a vision, I will tell you this. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The smallfolk said that a long summer meant an even longer winter, but the maester saw no reason to frighten the child with such tales. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “No, sir. She has had some experience, and got a prize for a tale in the Blarneystone Banner.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The night passes, filled with his stories of Blackcliff and the Tribes, and my tales of patients and the Quarter. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Suffice it to say, there was a love triangle, and one who, to seek revenge, went spreading tales of having licked a breast. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Sorry, but I don’t live in a fairy tale. I live in the real world, where people solve their...” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z “The old men of the band were wont to gather about the campfires in a reminiscent mood and there recount the tales of prowess on the war-path and in the chase.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z ‘Then there is a Lady in the Golden Wood, as old tales tell!’ he said. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She thought back to a tale she had heard as a child, about the children of the forest and their battles with the First Men, when the greenseers turned the trees to warriors. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z According to the tale told by Washington Irving, when Rip Van Winkle awoke and returned to his village, twenty years had passed, and many things had changed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I was Dad’s last defender, she continued, the only one who pretended to believe all his excuses and tales, and to have faith in his plans for the future. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “We have heard heroic tales of how your brothers fought against the treacherous Soviets and helped defeat them.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z And yet that was the case in the tale of Draupadi, the virtuous and beautiful princess who married all five Pandava brothers. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Dylan has hijacked the spotlight as he regales his “tale of a young man who flipped off Death” to Ethan and Arthur and gives them tips on how they can also “escape Death’s clutches.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z As she mounted her horse, Ash looked up at her and said, “I do have a favorite fairy tale.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z According to their own tales they were the original inhabitants and were the descendants of the first Men that ever wandered into the West of the middle-world. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Uh-huh. Came all the way from Kansas on a parole case. Well, I’m just a dizzy blonde. I believe you. But I wouldn’t tell that tale to any brunettes.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “When I was a little girl, fairy tales were my favorite books because even before you opened them, you knew how they were going to end. Happily ever after.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z To which my answer is, Oh pish, sir, ’tis a tale of poison, escape, and desperate flight; surely of no interest to thee. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z There are gay people in Clover City, I’m sure, but the ones I’ve heard of have been treated as urban legends or cautionary tales. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “This is a fairy tale, not a hunting story.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z "My apologies for leaving my tale half told. But I hope to be by the king's side when he brings these outlaws to justice. He and his hundred knights." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z She would take fewer than three puffs, and something in the gesture stirred something inside her, and she told her charges cautionary tales. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z After a minute, Minerva picked up the tale again, speaking in the heavily accented voice of her grandmother. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The king had told everyone the tale that night at the feast, laughing until he shook. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Oh, that story," said Mo. “Didn't I make it up for your eighth birthday? It's rather a gloomy tale, as far as I remember." Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z She hands me the glass of water and I drink it down before I tell my tale. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I suddenly remember the look Gram used to get sometimes when she was telling me her fairy tales. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z People all around us were fleeing to America: we heard tales of oranges the size of baking potatoes; fields of grain waving under sunny skies; clean, dry timber houses with indoor plumbing and electricity. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z She did not know if this had happened, or had merely become true from being told over and over again, a charmed tale of the beginning of their closeness. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Tendai changed the tale to remove all mention of modern things. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “So part of what I told wasn’t no pig tale.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z "Not every sailor's tale is true," Ser Jorah cautioned, "and even if Robert be truly dead, his son rules in his place. This changes nothing, truly." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Why is it in fairy tales, wishes always backfire?” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z "Our marriage . . . that makes a long tale and a dull one, Your Grace. I would not trouble you with it." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “You live in a fairy tale for that one year of your life,” said his wife. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Nobody in town could hold a candle to the Spoon Man when it came to unfolding a tale. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She listened, nodding her head like a wizened owl, as the tale of the morning’s woes came pouring out. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z No few had fallen, renowned or nameless, captain or soldier; for it was a great battle and the full count of it no tale has told. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He asks no questions and offers no tales, deprived of his antic companion, with whom the recounting of incident was a joy. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z That was quick He wondered who was telling tales and if there was more than one. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The viewfinder sought each line in Abay’s and Dada’s faces, which told the tale of the life they had led, filled with joy, pain, challenge, and triumph. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Room was made for the hobbit at the king’s left hand, but no one called for any tale. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “Some of us started believing our own tale. That it might be healing water, hallowed ground. But it was just water and dirt, plain and simple.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I looked through the book he had given me; it was a collection of old tales in English, so far as I could discern. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Claire pouted, but she had stopped crying, so the tale had served its purpose. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z What happened next has become part of historical legend, a tale told to every American schoolchild. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z While my eyes were thus burdened with the page, however, my ears were free, and followed Bono’s tale. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Even those tales of razors in Halloween candy are just urban rumors. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “A book of fairy tales broke your nose,” she said, helpless not to smile at how wrong her first impression had been. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “And what’s more, when your father gets back I don't want you telling him I’ve been starving you. Like the wicked stepmother in the fairy tale, you know.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z If his purpose had been to inflame the Meer- eenese against her, he would have told his tale when the hall was full of ears to hear. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Lady Isobel said they would return in the spring, so Ash packed her two books of fairy tales and all her winter dresses. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It is time, the monster said again, for the fourth tale. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z And then she was off on a tale about her mother taking Jen shopping in a city ten hours away, just because she’d heard a store sold good purses there. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z “You are but one player in a very long and difficult tale. ‘ Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She halfway believed in things not true and didn’t know where fairy tales ended. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked through the Gideon Bible in my motel room for tales of great destruction. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They occupied the town; and we, yards from the shore, heard tales of skirmish and indignity. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z ‘And these are the same people who say traditional origin tales are improbable!” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I was savoring the sound of Muthu’s snores rising and falling in concert with yours, after telling you our bedtime tale, when I heard Arul sneaking out of his tent. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z In my memory of this story’s telling—in our kitchen in Isfahan—the man finished his tale and popped another cream puff into his mouth. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Pa’s tales were often about the Buddhist gods and their dragons coming down to Earth to fight evil and protect people. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You got to learn to watch what you say! Don’t you know there’s folks in this house who love to carry tales?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z At their first meeting after the estrangement, Bernard poured out the tale of his miseries and accepted consolation. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Gerris answered with the tale they had concocted. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The tale started, as many tales have started, in Wall. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z "You are kind to ask, my lord, but my tale is long and sad, and we have treasons to discuss." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She was brushing out her long blonde hair and looked like a princess in a fairy tale, though her voice was far too matter-of-fact for a story book. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z It was like a fairy tale, something that just didn’t happen anymore. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an animated fairy tale and I didn’t like it much, either. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z It's just an old shot that goes with an old tale. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z His lord father's assembled captains and bannermen had fallen very quiet as the courier told his tale. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z If there were such a goddess in a book of olden tales, she would be the villain, tormenting the innocent from her high castle. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It reminded me of a Grimm Brothers forest, drawing up the nervous feelings I used to get when I stepped into the pages of fairy tales where unthinkable things were likely—you just never knew. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Many locals and visitors believed the eerie tales of lights flickering on and off during the night, dishes falling on their own, and phantoms in the bathroom mirror. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The tale of my royal parentage was all that kept me from abject slavery. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Mary Lou whacked open a coconut and shared it with Adina while she listened to that tale of the previous night, of the exploits brought about by the mischievous moon. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Their mother admonishes that the content of said tales may not be entirely appropriate for a pair of just barely thirteen-year-olds, but Mme. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “So you—you don’t think it can be a fairy tale or a myth?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “I don’t tell tales,” replied Laurie, with his ‘high and mighty’ air, as Jo called a certain expression which he occasionally wore. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z As a child, he had loved Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Gold-Bug,” a tale about a cipher that leads to buried treasure. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Dany had heard tales of such eggs, but she had never seen one, nor thought to see one. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z So Pippin poured out his tale, reaching up and touching Gandalf’s knee with trembling hands. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z And as they passed between the strong and silent rock walls Elinor told the tale of a battle that had raged in this very place over six hundred years ago. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The story unfolded as the wheels of the cassette turned, and Joseph was entranced by this tale of a boy and his brother aboard a ship at sea. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z "You and me and Haymitch. Very cozy. Picnics, birthdays, long winter nights around the fire retelling old Hunger Games' tales." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z ‘I have done better, though now I must grope for spent arrows; all mine are gone. Yet I make my tale twenty at the least. But that is only a few leaves in a forest.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z When we were frantic questioning him, at last we heard the tale: our friends were gone. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Thomas asked, the old fairy tale popping into his mind. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Liam was silent as we approached Petersburg’s outer city limits, only nodding once or twice to confirm that the craziest parts of Chubs’s tale were true. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I pulled the tale from the memory bank, but it wasn't hard. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z “Scholars want to close their eyes to the truth. Ghuls, wraiths, wights, jinn—they’re just stories. Tribal myths. Campfire tales. Such arrogance.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He looked like a prince from a fairy tale, and Ophie noticed that he did not wear the house shoes like she and her mother did, instead tracking dirty snow slush across the carpets. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “Good grief,” said Sticky, “do you have to drag out everybody’s sad tales? Why don’t you leave him in peace?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Every day we hear tales of other families who cannot see the end to their terror and thus commit suicide. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was afraid to, for if the other prisoners heard of his bearing tales to the warden, then his life, as he put it, “wouldn’t be worth a dead coyote.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z In the evening, I write our tale of this last week. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z It was far enough from the Royal City to make the philosophy being preached by the King’s many advisors seem stranger than the fairy tales most mothers told their children. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Once she did, they were riveted by its tale of a shipwreck in a terrible winter storm at sea. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Almost everyone had one, and those that didn’t added to the tales by retelling them. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Fine, maybe I only tried it one time, but I'm still convinced it's an old Persian wives' tale. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The mothers and daughters in fairy tales match like a pair of socks, but we are opposites. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z At the end of the tale, I puffed out a breath, tired from talking. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “The hawk, just here. Every feather dripping blood. I heard the man was all burned up inside, but that might just have been some tale.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It is her habit, like a self-anointed preacher, to choose a moral tale from her memory and tell it to those nearby, whether or not they wish to hear it. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z And, just like in the fairy tale, it will be a perfect fit. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “Are you saying that all those tales you tell Ash have any basis in reality?” he said in disbelief. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Everyone knows you! Every corner of this land has heard a tale you have whispered. Even now, the men outside wish they could sit like small children at your feet!” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z In his view, “the ban on gruesome fairy tales, terrifying nursemaids and other standard sources of horror, has left most of the population” vulnerable to scary stories and situations. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z The wood was full of the rumour of him, dreadful tales even among beasts and birds. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It was the old Mexican fairy tale of the Queen of the Clouds and the witch. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Other searchers returned with tales of other fruit trees, hidden behind closed doors in secret gardens. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Those looking for a tale of cultural superiority can find it in zero; those looking for failure can find it in the wheel. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I suppose you’d like to hear the fairy tale you’d make me tell every night we huddled together on the ruined bridge. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “All of us, we come here, and we been nobody for a long time; and so we want to tell a tale.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Once Vincent could read, he did so voraciously, mostly fairy tales and novels. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z The family spent most of their time here: they ate their meals, played games, and read novels and fairy tales together in the evenings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Some things. But for a long time I thought they were fairy tales.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z After the dinner, things became even more like a fairy tale. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z There was an overall atmosphere of nervousness and intrigue, of children telling tales upon others, of children being deprived of food to punish them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The men began to trade tales of atrocities, first stories they had heard, then those they’d witnessed, and finally the things that had happened to themselves. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, in Amon’s name, what would it do to get himself murdered or imprisoned by babbling such a tale without proof? The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z “Just bring back a good tale, Storyteller’s granddaughter,” Old Sai said kindly. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z He imagined himself recounting his adventures to her, back at Wall, in front of a blazing parlor fire; but somehow all of his tales seemed a little flat. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Lacey emerged from Ben’s shoulder still looking sad and distracted, but she tried to smile as Radar and Ben swapped tales of corsage purchasing. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z He was amused and pleased by this tale, and stored it in his memory. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Odin’s one eye flashed when he heard the tale of Suttung’s mead. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z ‘You don’t say much in all your tales about the Elves, sir,’ said Sam, suddenly plucking up courage. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z But even if magic was so rare it was more like myth than reality, the people of that country still loved their fairy tales. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In this secret music, I could tell those tales I was denied, and, there being no text, none could read whether I spake of docility or insubordination. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But now, seeing how outnumbered officers were and feeling more like prey than predator, I found in the tale a grain of comfort. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Half of those stories are just tall tales, and they get taller with every year that passes,” said Enoch. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I was remembering the tale of the “white” man who had beaten the “black” boy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The sheriff said, “Better the truth than a fairy tale.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Amaranta Úrsula was inclined to believe that he was the son of Petra Cotes, of whom she remembered only tales of infamy, and that supposition produced a twinge of horror in her heart. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z ‘But what I have heard seems to me for the most part old wives’ tales, such as we tell to our children. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “It’s the entire purpose of the club. We come here and discuss tales of murder and tragedy.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It was a tale that she relished retelling, and her rich accounts shed plenty of light on what happened next. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z What tales of daring and adventure must earlier have been recounted as sailors and navigators, practical men of the world, gambled their lives on the mathematics of a scientist from Alexandria? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We would then sit around, eating the ears of corn and telling tall tales. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "I've seen the bones of giants, and heard many a queer tale, but no more. I want to see them with my own eyes." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It was a tale that begged to be told, and so the story of the Mercury 13 spread all over campus, inspiring everyone who heard it. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z I seem to remember that day perfectly, perhaps because Mandy told the tale so often. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Ash recognized some of the stories in the book as tales that her mother had told her: “The Golden Ball,” “The Three Good Advices,” “The Beast and the Thorn.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because you’re like a story that hasn’t happened yet. Because I want to see what you will do. I want to be part of the unfolding of the tale.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I will share how she put love and life in her food, her home, her tall tales. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z When the horse ran poorly, Pollard skipped over the disappointing race notes and invented tales of Preservator’s impressive feats, dreaming of bad-luck excuses to account for the horse’s losses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They are the best sources for the tale. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He sipped some rose water before asking, "You know the tale of how I found the flower of immortality in a cave at the bottom of the endless ocean?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Nonetheless, the tale of their mostly separate progress through time deserves prominent placement in any history of the world. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As he told his tale, from time to time a drop of bright red blood would patter against the marble floor, and Dany would wince. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She spun me a tale, and I believed every word. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z After all, he didn’t know that Mr. Sloan had lived to tell his tale of captivity and abuse. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Cassie thought heaven was a fairy tale for stupid people. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z ‘Many strange tales have been told about that land,’ said Aragorn. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z "A sad tale," said Osha, "but those empty holes are sadder." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z "Well," I replied, to buy a bit of time, "it's rather a long tale." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z One tale featured Pollard riding racehorses for Czar Nicholas. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He told a tale about how one old range hog had caught him when he was a baby and his folks got there just barely in time to save him. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Now the tale of Nine is filled. In seven days the Company must depart.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Meggie listened to herself as if she could find the answer there, but all her heart would tell her was a tale of fear. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z In many places it had come before them, poisoning the well for their own true tale. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A teller of tales if there ever was one, the second mate could soak up a story and wring it out later word for word, and he was always happy to oblige. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The man with the wispy hair finished his tale about the Lady Delune by wagging his tongue and thrusting his hips. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z When I had earned my place as the center of attention, I launched into the tale of Grandpa’s gunfight. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z I often sat with him, after services, and listened to his tales, trying to understand his grief. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z His life is told of in the Deed of Ged and in many songs, but this is a tale of the time before his fame, before the songs were made. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t like dolls, fairy tales were childish, and one couldn’t draw all the time. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z How Shelob came there, flying from ruin, no tale tells, for out of the Dark Years few tales have come. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “We have been questioning the wildlings we brought back from the grove. Several of them told an interesting tale, of a woods witch called Mother Mole.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Olakunde narrates always with looks of the greatest solemnity, but raveled deep in his demeanor is his joy in telling these tales, and to an audience so delighted with his testimony. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z These were fairy tales, which did nothing to alter the narrowness of their existence. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A certain piece-worker claimed that he had worked with the mute at another mill somewhere else in the state—and the tales he told were unique. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Also Sherlock Holmes doesn’t believe in the supernatural, which is God and fairy tales and Hounds of Hell and curses, which are stupid things. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Look at that girl. She looks like she’s from a fairy tale or something.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z They told a tale of progress fuelled by human brain power. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z There are art books and romance novels and children's tales and thousands of rows I can't see. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I will tell anybody who asks me questions, this exact tale. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The greater part of those accounts were idle tales and could not be relied on, and the books that Illyrio had provided them were not the ones he might have wished for. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z ‘We are beginning the story in the middle. I should like a tale in the right order, starting with that strange day when our fellowship was broken.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z That was the idea you got from fairy tales. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z “But of course it was just a tale. Anyhow, about witches. But it’s absolutely true that if anybody eats it, his heart will stop in a day.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z The women sounded like a flock of mynah birds as they recounted tales of dogs, cats, budgies and horses. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z What I see inside reminds me of a tale Zola told me. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z That is the story of Congo they are telling now in America: a tale of cannibals. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The tale of Cadmus and his daughters is only a prologue to the greater story. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z When we reached the top, he continued his tale. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Thomas Jones kept the secrets of the pine thicket until, almost twenty years later, he told his tale to a writer. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought upon what I had told him; and in return, he has told me this tale, a tale of the Venus of my mother’s people, their Aphrodite, the goddess Oshun. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Baba Joseph frowned, not entirely pleased with a tale about a witch. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “We return to our rest, and you will tell our tale?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The huntress took a drink from her goblet when she finished her tale, and the two revelers seated with her clapped their hands. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead she had ridden through the heart of die war, through fertile riverlands turned to blackened desert by the fury of the Lannisters, and each night her scouts brought back tales that made her ill. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Sweetly, to begin. Hear what tales they tell and what names they give you. It may be they had no part in this.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And yet the spectacle of desolation I had just left prepared me in a measure for a tale of misery. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z A glorious moment was coming, my chest insisted, and even the fact that I myself would have no part in it—a member of the race God cursed, according to the Shaper’s tale—was trifling. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “Vonetta. You have to stop going back and forth telling those tales.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z If the kid isn’t lucky, then he dies down there, and the tale ends sadly. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z In his era, racing was a business made rigid by tradition and imitation, superstition and wives’ tales. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d heard rumors of rain in the river valleys west of us, and those tales aroused the deepest thirst you can imagine—the thirst of dying crops and animals. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘The birds and beasts do not tell tales of that sort.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The trader responded with a tale of how his wife heated a can of peas on hot coals without opening it first. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Like a character in a Victor Hugo novel, she tearfully explained her heartbreaking tale to me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Near these men he sat down, and told his tale under their questioning. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I have put together this report from firsthand interviews with the victims, and as the tale unfolds, you will realize that this was not easy. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Will I really ever see her again, or is that a fairy tale? Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z The boy’s tale made her heart stir in her breast, but this was not all. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z "I like my tale better," said Littlefinger, "and so will the smallfolk- Most of them believe that if a woman eats rabbit while pregnant, her child will be bom with long floppy ears." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She meant to add on to the tale to make it sound more reasonable, but instead she just looked at Harry. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z There are tales of escape, many as wily as Bono’s own. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “You need a cuento,” she says, referring to one of her tall tales. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “You’ll make a teller of fairy tales yet if you carry on like that, fire-eater!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The tale Uncle Jack told me during the fourteen minutes Mama was gone. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z “I will tell you the story of Eilis and the Changeling. Do you know that tale?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s the Dewey decimal number for fairy tales.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z This was what I wanted, tales like this. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Of all the tales of marvel that I could tell you, none surpass in wonder and coolness the one I am about to tell. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z At night, in the boys’ hut, they begged him for tales. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z He wished he had paid attention to such tales. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z ‘Long tales are thirsty. And long listening’s hungry work, morning, noon, and evening!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “You told me a fairy tale once,” he said, “and now I have one to tell you.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z A world of berries and carrot peels and Frau Elena’s fairy tales. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z My dad wondered if he should have read me more fairy tales. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Viserys had told her all the tales when she was little. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The men who had invested in them were the subjects of cautionary tales, derision, and a fair measure of public loathing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z John sits with our mother at one end of the dining table, reading to her from a book of old Republic tales. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “Luna in the infirmary has an interesting tale,” Jorge went on. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “The fairy tale you used to tell on the bridge?” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z She begged me to be still, but the fever compelled me to repeat my awful tale over and over. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When I opened it, instead of a fairy tale, I found an illustration of Mandy! Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z It would be impossible in this book to set out a family-tree that included even the more important members of the more important families at the time which these tales tell of. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z One early morning they persuaded Silver to come with them and traveled over a mile to the outskirts of Kingsclere, returning with a tale of mischief and feasting in a cottage garden. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Lost his hands to the frostbite but rowed all the way home and lived to tell the tale. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll tell you how far it got with me though. Since I’ve come here I find myself thinking of Chinese fairy tales my father told me. We Chinese have a well- developed demonology.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “I do not know. Perhaps by reading so much of greed and passion,” I said, thinking of all the stories and tales I had savored while disbelieving the wickedness in them. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Thus, Olakunde’s tale of the Venus of his people; of my mother’s people; of my own. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z When told that the candy came from Germany—“You know, the fairy tale and the Brothers Grimm,” the clerk said—Bobby was reassured and bought a few bars, his anti-Semitic sensibilities appeased. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “I’d like to hear a tale about an ordinary person for once. Not all of us are born princes.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I spent the entire day with Kapwepwe and heard from him the most astonishing tale. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They clapped for Claire, who looked like the Snow Queen in the fairy tale, white and glittering. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z What fairy tale ever held so much by way of contradiction? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Hinduism had started off as a polytheistic religion, a set of tales about warrior gods and battles similar in many ways to the Greek mythos. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “The one man left alive brought back a tale of robbers,” Jocasta said. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Just a tall tale from long ago that didn’t have anything to do with me? Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z ‘Well, what was it?’ said Frodo, knowing that Sam would not settle down until he had told his tale, whatever it was. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z On the radio, the idealized world of One Man’s Family and the just and reassuring tales of The Lone Ranger were runaway hits. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I was enjoying the players' tales so much that I neglected to undress and remove my makeup. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z There were some common threads among the fairy tales she had read. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z What would everyone say, those scholars who’d mocked him, if they knew a fairy tale had held the key to azoth? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Of all the legends that he had heard in his early years such fragments of tales and half-remembered stories about the Elves as the hobbits knew, had always moved him most deeply. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Even the weathers had grown milder, and the wolves that had once come ravening out of the North in bitter white winters were now only a grandfather’s tale. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The voice from the telescreen was still pouring forth its tale of prisoners and booty and slaughter, but the shouting outside had died down a little. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Nhamo was so pleased with the unusual attention she had attracted, she began to embroider the tale. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z These tales would spiral on for an hour, with characters and motives ever changing. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z One of the main commodities returned on those voyages of centuries ago were travelers’ tales,* stories of alien lands and ex otic creatures that evoked our sense of wonder and stimulated future exploration. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazel and his companions had suffered extremes of grief and horror during the telling of Holly’s tale. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z To the last battle at Fornost with the Witch-lord of Angmar they sent some bowmen to the aid of the king, or so they maintained, though no tales of Men record it. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z My father was a born storyteller, largely because his own life had been like one fantastic tale. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Kilgore Trout became Billy’s favorite living author, and science fiction became the only sort of tales he could read. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z So our little intrigues played out while women whispered over the backs of the sofas and men, after supper, passed the port and listened to tales of the wars against the French and the Indians. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He plays the chief part in the Volsungasaga, the Norse version of the German tale which Wagner’s operas have made familiar. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Travelers had occasionally come to her village, so she had heard tales of the blueness and vastness of the ocean. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Dinath regaled me with tales of financial shenanigans and corruption among cabinet ministers, which I found fascinating. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was almost funny—not just that the truth had been found in a fairy tale, but that the great secret ingredient should prove so common a thing as a bodily fluid. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z We spake it during supper, as once, at the inception of our Regiment, all told the tales of escape; now we tell the tales of the return of soldiers to bondage. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I’ll be a good guest and pay for your hospitality with tales of adventure. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I didn’t care, for I loved to hear the tall tales. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The magical wallet and cap belong to the properties fairy tales abound in everywhere. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, they are tales of hardship, but notable even more for their bravery. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Asra was puzzled by the injection of the teller into the tale. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Until a few days ago, I'd always assumed they were fairy tales. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z A tale decked out with glittering lies against the word of truth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Our life is a freaking dismal fairy tale. A maaaagical fairy tale.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But night after night, Gertrude and I spent an hour or more in such devotions, reading tales of love and desire. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z There would be no one, except himself, to speak the truth, and who would believe his tale? The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z As the Uncle finished his tale, they sat quietly in the main room of the cottage. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z I had wanted to be the author of my tale, not merely a player in Hamlet’s drama or a pawn in Claudius’s deadly game. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I was to learn later that Elijah Muhammad’s tales, like this one of “Yacub,” infuriated the Muslims of the East. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The landlord, little inclined to believe our tale of distress, pointed out that he had seen our money the night before, and that we should make good on our promises now. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Unbidden, he thought back on the tales that Old Nan used to tell them, when he was a boy at Winterfell. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The Preacher commenced waving his arms, really warming into this tale he’s ’bout to spin. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z “I’m not telling tales and you can’t tell me what to do.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Maybe I had been listening to Phoebe’s tales of lunatics and axe murderers too much. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z A long time they sat there by the fire, and Ged told his old master the tale of the years since he had sailed from Gont aboard the ship called Shadow. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The other boy’s voice was sharp enough to cut off whatever gory tale he was about to share. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I’m waiting for the trip down memory lane, preparing myself to be regaled with tales of Dr. Katz’s high school years. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Unbelievable tales about being a child and watching his father slaughter and gut pigs from “the rooter to the tooter.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z But Dewey, and some of the other investigators, seemed not to credit his story, and behaved as though it were a tale he’d invented to mislead them. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He comes to me with some way-out tale about how come and why. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z If the tales coming up the kingsroad could be believed, the King’s Hand had been murdered by his dwarf son whilst sitting on a privy. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She paused, watching Ash finish the last of the venison, and then said, “On the subject of traditions ... you have never told me your favorite fairy tale.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “If he does not breathe ...” Bran found himself remembering the tales Old Nan had told him when he was a babe. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The tale is typical of the Alexandrian poets, tender, a little soft, but always in exquisite taste. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z "I could get no tale out of him, true or false." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z I took a book—some Arabian tales; I sat down and endeavoured to read. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Born slave or born free, most could tell a tale of escape. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z For anyone who questioned that reality, Private Booker T. Spicely’s fate at the hands of a Durham bus driver served as a cautionary tale. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z British producers from the BBC came calling, and she appeared on television, sharing tales from her rumrunner days. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They also found the ijji, a huge and hideous race that kept humans as slaves, pets, or food, depending on the version of the tale. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “And I’m a cautionary tale! Look at me.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The sagas, all prose tales, are of later date. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Her letter was followed by a sad tale about the genie in Aladdin’s lamp. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z But in this day and age, who would have thought fairy tales could come to life? Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z War, vengeance, murder—all the themes on which the tale was strung—were so removed from modern reality, few could relate. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Sitting with her back against the tree, she remembered a tale her mother had once told her about a fairy who lived in the mountains north of Rook Hill. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Characters from stories, like the ones she’d been told all her life, were taking off their masks and saying, I was never a tale, but a truth. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He even made up his own tales about “Henry the Whale.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In case the drugs weren’t doing their job, the Cramps tried loosening me up with a few comforting tales of Ted’s prior salvation successes. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z So, my grandchildren, that is the tale this medal has helped me to tell. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “And so they did,” Komla said, ending his tale with a tapping on his drum. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Ma Charles said, “If they want to milk cows and fill up on silly half-Indian tales, let ’em go.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z One evening I heard a tale that rendered me sleepless for nights. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He had seen her, he would always be able to see her, even as time smoothed out the memory to a barroom tale. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Finally he said, “is that why you sought me out? To tell me a —” He paused, his lip curling, and continued, “A fairy tale?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z "But there are tales of him wrestling Enkidu, killing the Bull of Heaven, and facing down some huge demon in a forest—cutting him clean in half, if I remember right." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z And again there was unbelievable color, and gossamer wings and fruit and creatures out of fairy tales. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I tell this tale in memory of Private Pompey Lewis, friend Pomp; who I still ardently dream shall sit beside my grandchildren and speak of kindly horrors. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z It made Bran's skin prickle to think of it* He remembered the hearth tales Old Nan told them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Those tales serve a purpose, William, and how dare you dismiss our traditions as superstition? There is a reason they have survived.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked at the passing faces and the tales came back to him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Follow the tales of witches and goblins, and unexplained happenings. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Therefore I went first to meet him and hear his tale. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “And he also said the streets were paved with gold. I think Cato’s story is just an old slave’s tale about a place that doesn’t even exist!” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z So I passed a sleepless night on the floor, thinking that the evening had provided good matter for the kind of ribald tale that delighted Gertrude. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z But didn't all the dragons from the fairy tales get slain? Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Of these things Frodo had already heard many rumours; but the tale of Glóin was new to him, and when the dwarf spoke he listened attentively. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Where ramblers and visitors are concerned, they are more inventive, only using physical force as a last resort if tales of new-planted grass, or a dangerous bull on the loose, are not sufficient. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z “Story Box. A treasure vault for tales and ballads. A repository for lullabies and fables older than the sun, some familiar, some no one has ever heard before.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z It was before the beginning of history, so paleontologists have had to piece together the tale of the birth of mathematics from bits of stone and bone. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “What if he u1 down there,” I say, “but he’s magic like in that fairy tale ‘The Fisherman and His Wife.’” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Whether or not they believed his wild tale of superhuman strength, no thane in the hall would attack him again and risk the slash of that mild, coolly murderous tongue. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides, in those tales, no one ever survived the judgment of a unicorn. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z On the one hand—superstition and old wives’ tales; on the other hand—the scientist, trying to solve the puzzles and find the answers. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z "You cannot stop them talking, my liege," Davos said, "but when you take your vengeance on your broth-ers' true killers, the realm will know such tales for lies." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Up until now, Lazlo had only ever seen it referred to in tales. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They could weave, into the lovely stuffs they made, forms so lifelike anyone could see what tale they illustrated. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They argued passionately with the village greenwitches, claiming that all those fairy tales were nothing but the stuff of nonsense — there were no greenies or goblins. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The Lieutenant of the Tower of Barad-dûr he was, and his name is remembered in no tale; for he himself had forgotten it, and he said: ‘I am the Mouth of Sauron.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I think we felt as if we were in a fairy tale of our own, because everywhere we looked there were shiny new things that our grandparents thought we’d need for life in Spring. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He so thrilled us with tales of the mines that he almost persuaded me that to be a miner was more alluring than to be a monarch. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the mind of Scheherazade there are a thousand times a thousand times a thousand tales. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “A man of science, and yet you believe the myths. You believe in the might of reason, but you also believe in fairy tales. Goddesses and curses.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Our hosts got Estraven to tell them the whole tale of our crossing of the Ice. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Pouring mustard tea on the girls’ cuts and bruises, and keeping them at their tasks with spellbinding tales of her Baltimore days and the child she had cared for there. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z When it’s wet like this, it usually takes the fluff and fairy tale off her, making her seem more ordinary, more like the rest of us, but not today. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z When most Lackses talked about Henrietta and Day and their early life in Clover, it sounded as idyllic as a fairy tale. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The only amusement then was castrating pigs and bulls, cockfights, hopscotch, and the incredible tales of old Pedro Garcia, may he rest in peace. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He did not take care of her and she died alone somewhere in the dark and there is no other dream nor other waking world and there is no other tale to tell. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Why fabricate a tale in which one comes off as a self-confessed dunce? Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z ‘Now tell me your tale, my liege,’ said Denethor, half kindly, half mockingly. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Since at least the 1800s, black oral history has been filled with tales of “night doctors” who kidnapped black people for research. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “Perhaps the tale would go well with supper.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Matt Creighton’s grandfather had lived through the Revolution; Matt himself had survived the Mexican War; and Uncle Billy Jeffers, down the road, was still alive to tell tales of the War of 1812. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z They had heard the tales from their own parents. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z In the faraway ages when the tales of Greek mythology were taking shape men found the brilliant blossoms of the Greek spring a wonder and a delight. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Those had been my favorite tales as a kid—you didn't come across many Arabian heroes anywhere else. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z It had all been so ordinary, even boring, and now it seemed like a fairy tale. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z "Ah, that's more tales, and no more true than the other." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z And at night, they gathered in the dare to tell tales. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Eight years after our camping trip, I still can’t believe how good I told that tale about Aunt Loma nursing a pig, not to mention the one about sticking a pin in her rubber busts. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z But how can fairy tales be true when they all end the same way? How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z I cannot with ease think upon him and his friend John, newly fled, telling the tale of their turkey call. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He passes over also one of the most famous tales about Hercules, how he freed Alcestis from death, which was the subject of another of Euripides’ plays. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z And now that part of the tale that I shall tell is drawn to its close. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z No such tales are told by the American poor. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z All of a sudden she told a tale: ‘I don’t dive any more. I used to dive, high dive, all the time. But once I busted my head open, so I can’t dive any more.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z If I hadn’t mentioned Miss Lilian, my brother and I would still be telling tales about the old days, amusing ourselves while the rain fell and the wind blew. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z So she had been surprised when the book that he brought back for her was a volume of fairy tales. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z These tales stimulated my childish imagination, and usually contained some moral lesson. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Gram told me that as a little boy, he was never interested in hearing fairy tales or reading books together like she and I did. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z She hesitated before she began the tale, wondering if it might reveal something about her that she wished to keep secret. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In fairy tales, kids almost always have terrible moms. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z It was a tale about focusing, about peeling away distractions one by one until all that was left was the target. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Even the tale he’d chosen for Bronwyn to read that first night in the forest, about the stone giant, had been a manipulation. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Reader, as the teller of this tale, it is my duty from time to time to utter some hard and rather disagreeable truths. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z “What can I say? Her life is a tale told by idiots,” which, Rowan believed, was a very bad Shakespeare misquote. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z But the lad had lived among the soldiers when they were there and he had listened to their tales of war and plunder and battle, and he listened rapt to it all, saying nothing. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Styx rolled out his tales real slow, keeping us on the hook. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I’ve read a hundred tales of heroes and the trials they face—what harm if I invent one and pass it off as truth? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z If this were a fairy tale, I’d tell you there was something magical about that Wishing Day. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Her friends tried to amuse her with funny tales, but she did not listen. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I was only in second grade, but already the kids in my class didn’t like fairy tales much anymore. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z “Eva’s Dream” is my best fairy tale, and the odd thing is that I don’t have the faintest idea where it came from. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I was worried about my mom, but wartime Congo was the opposite of fairy tales: The wilderness was the safe place, not the town, because hiding was the only way to survive. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Hearing his tale, my heart swelled with pity, and I put my hand upon his wrist; but he shook it off. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z More unnerving, however, were tales of scythes who gleaned the passenger from the seat they took. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “And if there’s a tale about this cathedral, there’s probably a loop entrance here, too.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Aeschylus tells the tale splendidly, but in his hands it is a stirring martial poem. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z She sat in Elizas rocker with the children at her feet and told a tale of magic buckets and flying ships. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When I told a tale, something pulled at the creatures. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “In the fairy tales, the princess never does the wrong thing.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Hearing him joke and tease and tell tales down at the store, you wouldn’t of known he had a care in the world, unless you studied his eyes. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Recounted in numberless articles and books, the Maya collapse has become an ecological parable for green activists; along with Pleistocene overkill, it is a favorite cautionary tale about surpassing the limits of Nature. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She couldn’t know that it was born of tales told years ago by a monk slipping into senility, or that it had been fed ever since by every source Lazlo could get his hands on. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It is a world where the enchanted forest of the fairy tales has become the poisonous forest in which an insect that chews a leaf or sucks the sap of a plant is doomed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z For his new tale, Wells was inspired by astronomers who proposed that life existed on Mars. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “If you got to show off before a bunch of boys by makin’ up tales about a woman’s—” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z They shimmered and rippled, and when I looked closer, I realized that the threads were fragments of stories—actual lines from tales I vaguely remembered—spun into golden silk. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “Very well, but I warn you, it’s a most unbelievable tale.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z He listened to the professor’s version of the tale, which differed only slightly from the one he knew, waiting for the opportunity to steer the conversation the way of his question. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The liberation we’ve all talked so much about, which still seems too good, too much of a fairy tale ever to come true? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z When Boo had mentioned a council, Aru had imagined stern summer camp counselors...not the very people from the myths and tales that had been crammed into her head since she was a toddler. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Then he had talked to Théoden, telling him about his home and the doings of the Shire-folk, or listening in turn to tales of the Mark and its mighty men of old. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Don’t look for some sad tale of the father figure I’m missing or how he left when blah, blah, blah. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z This report, this rumor, this tale was heard and spread here and there. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I’d be wary of telling the full tale here. Stories are powerful magic. You’ll find that out soon enough. Best only summarize.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z He first worked as a folklorist, traveling around Florida to collect old native tales and songs. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Do you have a favorite tale?” she asked. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The tale of the Golden Fleece begins with a Greek king named Athamas, who got tired of his wife, put her away, and married another, the Princess Ino. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Ultimately, at five minutes past three that afternoon, Smith admitted the falsity of the Fort Scott tale. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever I’m in the dark, I remember those tales. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Only this and nothing more, the tell-tale heart, tale of the carnivore. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Cherrie and the others especially enjoyed Roosevelt’s ability to tell a good story, keeping everyone entertained with tales of his adventures in the Wild West, in Africa, and as president. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z It’s a thick collection of tales from the Mahabharata with gold lettering on the cover and bright colorful pictures inside. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z With my messy ponytails and dress from the bargain basement, I feel like the fairy tale’s ragged girl with the basket of onions when I’m around Miss Mademoiselle Danielle. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z This morning he was spinning the tale of Susanna, beautiful and pious wife of the rich man Joakim. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was poetry designed to tell a tale. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z We listened to his stories of life in the city, enthralled by his tales of the modern conveniences like indoor plumbing and streetcars, things we could scarcely imagine. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z They panted up, white-faced, and began gibbering out their tale of terror. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z When Eleanor was a little girl, she'd thought her mom looked like a queen, like the star of some fairy tale. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Others told tales of returning only to be spurned by their villages for having broken caste or to be preyed upon by relatives who stole their money. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z His hair was still dark, and hers was still cinnamon, and his nose was the victim of velvet-bound fairy tales, and her mouth was damson-lush. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself,” he said. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Hassan was the perfect audience in many ways, totally immersed in the tale, his face shifting with the changing tones in the story. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z ‘There’s no time for tales till we get somewhere else, Mr. Frodo,’ said Sam. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z We all laughed, as we knew he was mocking Musa for adding some details to the tale. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z And so each drank, and each died, and the poets say, ‘I tell the tale that I heard told. Mithridates, he died old.’ Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Where we get the songs we sing and the tales we tell? Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “Here is where you stop regaling me with tales of your ineptitude and surprise me?” asked Boo hopefully. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Merry looked out in wonder upon this strange country, of which he had heard many tales upon their long road. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z ‘If I just vanish like Bilbo, the tale will be all over the Shire in no time.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “But even the girl here doesn’t believe that tale. You’ll have to think up something better!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He told tales of hate crimes and atrocities so horrid that I couldn’t stop reading. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z At the last fire, a book of fairy tales, he'd glanced at a single line. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Yes, they were black,’ said Beregond, 'and I see that you know something of them, though you have not spoken of them in any of your tales.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Old women on Fair Isle still frightened their grandchildren with tales of Lord Dagon and his men. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They had seen Brandon the Builder set the first stone, if the tales were true; they had watched the castle's granite walls rise around them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z On their journey from Winterfell to the Wall, Bran and his companions had made the miles shorter by talking and telling tales, but it was different here. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In this particular tale, he serves only one purpose. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z He quickly felt as if he had wandered into a German fairy tale. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It was like something out of a fairy tale. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The preacher is rapt with attention as Katherine begins spinning out a tale of woe and misery so pitiful that it belongs in a weekly serial. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z As an attorney with a fairly large criminal practice, I was conversant with such tales. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Is there a Shrouded Lord? Or is he just some tale?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Each of us has a sad tale; we wouldn’t be here otherwise. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The woman was reluctant to say much at first, but soon she couldn’t stop telling the tale of her husband’s life. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z When I tried to tell him of my adventures and misadventures, he responded with a casual indifference which stilled the tale on my lips. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The companions sat on the ground at his feet, and Aragorn took up the tale. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z There is a tale told in the East Reach of a boat that ran aground, days out from any shore, over the abyss of ocean. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Bechareh, she probably constructs tales as a way of mourning the loss of her family, was the collective surmise of most of the wives. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z As for the Hobbits of the Shire, with whom these tales are concerned, in the days of their peace and prosperity they were a merry folk. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Let me finish this tale first. So: Farin was taken into the Wood to seek out the unicorn.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Over dinner, she fills the silence with tales from her day, some real and some completely imaginary. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z “How you and Gum Baby paired up should make a fine tale.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z And then she thought about how in fairy tales people got three wishes and none of the wishes ever turned out right. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z There were many other strange doings and bizarre myths, legends, and fairy tales that, taken loosely together, had wound up giving the town and the Miracle Valley their names. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Some tale of valor with a happy ending.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The tales of Greek mythology do not throw any clear light upon what early mankind was like. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The tale of the golden godson, who distilled azoth and saved kingdoms. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Excellent stories for this type of activity include folk tales or fairy tales from around the world. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I guess they all expected to see her folded into a casket like some kind of cautionary tale. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z In addition to being a fascinating tale designed to catch your attention, it introduces themes that reverberate throughout all the stories that follow by serving as the exception that proves the rule. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z You must resist the common urge toward the comforting narrative of divine law, toward fairy tales that imply some irrepressible justice. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Eventually he got the true tale out of Bilbo after much questioning, which for a while strained their friendship; but the wizard seemed to think the truth important. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I am sure it never occurred to them that I might want a job, too—all my tales of Californian richesse had hit the mark harder than I’d thought. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He had thought that men would sing of him for a hundred years and tell tales of his daring. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Ugly tales like that were told of every great lord in the realm. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Lola was required only to remain silent about the truth, banish it and forget it entirely, and persuade herself not of some contrary tale, but simply of her own uncertainty. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I waited for him to take it up, to unravel once again his tale of plotting statesmen and deluded public, his great joke, his private toe hold on the world. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The idea for my plot began with a ribald tale of mistaken love I had once read to Gertrude. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z This time he extolled the English, filling Massasoit’s ears with tales of their cities, their great numbers, their powerful technology. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But the philosophers themselves disliked this penchant for telling tales and insisted upon their own, much plainer history. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Pomp suggested we might tie the gentleman to a chair, conformable to tales of robbery; which suggestion, I may relate, met with no disapproval. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Sometimes Robin told them tales, or sang songs, but he spent most of the time in the chamber where he slept, working on the Saxon harp. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Never having seen a cyclotron in action and having heard tales of its difficult temperament, Bainbridge’s eyes widened. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z ‘Have you not guessed it already? You have heard it before, I think. Yes, you have heard it before. But come now, what of your tale?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z ‘But there is not time yet for travellers’ tales.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z What she had overheard reminded her of the argument he had had with her mother, and she wondered, not for the first time, how many of those tales told to children were true. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He appears oftener in the tales of mythology than any other god. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z If the tales they had heard of the Red Wedding were even half-true, they were not like to ride north again. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It’s been ages since I’ve heard a good tale, and I long to get lost in one. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Secretary LaHood, who in his four-and-a-half-year tenure as the nation’s chief transportation authority, came across many harrowing tales and difficult safety issues. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z And sometimes, when they told tales on a sunny evening by the beech trees, he could not clearly recall whether they were about himself or about some other rabbit hero of days gone by. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “So the tales of the mighty Thor are only tales. Well, even so, we will allow you to drink the horn dry on your third attempt. There cannot be much left in there, after all.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z ‘I do not think the wood feels evil, whatever tales may say,’ said Legolas. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “Yes, why not? After all, he claims to be almost like a father to me. Anyway, his tales amuse me.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Cautionary tales abounded in every form of media. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z It took me a couple tries to get going, but I finally gagged up my tale. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The sun had risen, and Thyon Nero wasn’t reading fairy tales now. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z From the fairy tales, I’ve learned exactly who the enemy are. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Vikus told the whole tale in ten sentences using a soft voice. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The place was magical, like something out of a fairy tale. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Chicago’s newspapers reported ghoulish tales of doctors raiding graveyards. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was not till after I had withdrawn to my own chamber for the night, that I steadily reviewed the tale Mr. Rochester had told me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z She gazed at Mrs. Coulter with awe, and listened rapt and silent to her tales of igloo building, of seal hunting, of negotiating with the Lapland witches. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Then he’d take a deep breath—long and slow, like he was settling into a mood rather than a story—and he’d tell the whole tale from start to finish. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “But The Hobbit's basically just a fairy tale.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Certainly there was no drowned child in her memory, no specific tale. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z "So be it. Stannis was never the most cherished of brothers, I confess. Do you suppose this tale of his is true? If Joffrey is the Kingslayer's get—" "—your brother is the lawful heir." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The pitch-black room seemed alive with the voodoo spirits of my mother’s tales, ready to pounce upon me if I as much as took a step from where I was standing. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She wrote like it was a fairy tale, and reading those pages felt like peeking into the Mom of ten years ago: the Mom who wrote a book and nursed a baby. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “I thought the idea that the Xi don’t like iron was only an old wives’ tale. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The guests began to arrive, many with tales of how they'd gotten lost on the way; the suburbs were dark and intricate like mazes with their courts and cul-de-sacs. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z But as he told her his tale of love and implored her help Circe fell in love with him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite all that he had heard of him—the tales of his wickedness—he suddenly felt a strange affinity for the giant cleric. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z It was staggering to contemplate the accrued tales of dysfunction, pain, and violence that had preceded these prison terms—and, frankly, easier not to. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Any moment now, Styx would launch into some outlandish tale that could not possibly be true, unless he was some kind of celebrity. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Only stories of love pass through our post-mortal filter, yet even then, we are baffled by the intensity of longing and loss that threatens those mortal tales of love. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Her mother continued, “Your father loves to have tales to tell and new stories to gather—this night will provide both.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Gramps said, “Well then, what about your friends? You got any tales to tell about them?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Ruthanne looked sideways at me, I guess gauging if my level of enthusiasm deserved her tale. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Growing up, she’d heard tales of it, but nothing that had prepared her for the truth. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Nobody who's ever visited this island has lived to tell the tale. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z At that time, Jule had only begun to construct the origin tale she would later rely upon, and she could not, could not tell anything else. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Before she could order one more after the tale of King Midas, I asked her hoarsely if she’d liked the story. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I heard him in a blubbering tone commence the tale of how “that nasty Jane Eyre” had flown at him like a mad cat: he was stopped rather harshly— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z She went into her room and opened the trunk, and there at the bottom were her books of fairy tales, her mother's herbal, and the medallion — Sidhean's final gift to her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I rushed home from school every day to sit by the radio for hours listening to the romantic tales of women with names like Mariana and Sofía, and men such as Armando and Ricardo. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “Things once were right there in the palace, but no more. That house could tell a tale if it could speak.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He had anecdotes, too, cautionary tales for the blacked-out drinker: There was a guy in New Jersey who got drunk at a fourth of July party. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z We would sit at his feet listening to his jíbaro tales of phantasms, talking animals, and enchanted guava trees. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z At the end of her singing tale, I was crying, shaking with despair. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Ivy thought that sounded magical—swimming the butterfly—like something out of a fairy tale. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “I’d originally wanted a practical partnership, but now I think I’m getting the fairy tale anyway.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z It looks ominous, like the deep forests of fairy tales. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z There took shape in my mind—as though an answer was trying to grope its way out of the depths of me—the tale of a flood, Down by the Riverside. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Phoebe’s tales were like my fishing in the air: for a while I needed to believe that my mother was not dead and that she would come back. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z The nest was the most intricately constructed thing, like something built by the fairies in my childhood tales. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z When they appeared they brought news from afar, and told strange forgotten tales which were eagerly listened to; but the Bree-folk did not make friends of them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z To some there Bilbo’s tale was wholly new, and they listened with amazement while the old hobbit, actually not at all displeased, recounted his adventure with Gollum, at full length. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “To my cousins, or your tales sister in Vienna. We will get a letter when the mail begins to come again.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z As we rode, he recounted tale after tale of their bravery and cleverness. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z If, of course, she is as beautiful as they say in the tales.’ Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z She couldn’t tell anybody about the things she did at night, and when her Mama asked her questions she would answer with any little tale that sounded reasonable. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z ‘Then tell us some other tale of the old days,’ begged Sam; 'a tale about the Elves before the fading time. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He’d now seen the Shetani twice and lived to tell the tale; both times, he had been completely useless when it came time to face it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z But mostly, we spent our time in the Spinney or down by the river, where Gram told me fairy tales while she painted. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z “So what was I supposed to do?” asked the Iceman, aggrieved, when he had told Shadow the whole sad tale. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z I was absorbed in the tale of a renowned scientist who had rigged up a mystery room made of metal in the basement of his palatial home. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The Others are only a story, a tale to make children shiver. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He was a stout man, thanks to Eliza’s cooking, and the heart of all gossip and tall tales in the coffeehouse. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He smiled as he listened to my tale of woe. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The black brothers had left Castle Black in good spirits, joking and trading tales, but of late the brooding silence of the wood seemed to have sombered them all. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Wishing to speak for proof of companionship, and knowing his delight in tales of superstition, I asked him, “Is your rifle anointed with luck grease?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Then he stretches his back, rubs his hands togevver against the cold, looks out at the heavy curtain of darkness, and tells us a truly frightening tale. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The elders would tell tales of the wars fought by our ancestors in defense of the Fatherland, as well as the acts of valor by generals and soldiers during these epic days.. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The wine was steaming and bubbling, and it came to Tristran then—the information surfacing from some long-forgotten fairy tale or piece of children's lore—that a unicorn's horn was proof against... Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, the monster said, standing, the roof beams of his grandma’s office seeming to sigh with relief, that is what will happen after the third tale. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Finally, there was the tale of the civilian teacher who allowed an eager inmate to help her grade papers and confided in him when her boyfriend dumped her. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “The most healthy among them are lying abed, reading out fairy tales to one another.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Becky brought back tales of sea monsters chasing the British fleet and a two-headed calf born outside Philadelphia that portended all manner of disaster. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z "Anyone here think I'm a monster? That's such a strong word. Usually reserved for creatures in fairy tales. Not princesses. Not future queens." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “An orphan then. And not pursued?” she asked, clearly relishing the tale. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z None of the tales she had read gave her reason to hope; even Eilis, who had succeeded in her quest, fulfilled her end of the bargain. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It had seemed to Adina then to be a TV fairy tale: All those pretty girls smiling and waving and showing off their tumbling skills. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z If ever beyond hope you return to the lands of the living and we re-tell our tales, sitting by a wall in the sun, laughing at old grief, you shall tell me then. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z But he thinks that is the stuff of fairy tales, not real life. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I want to be part of the unfolding of the tale. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In the tale, the archery teacher of the Pandavas had tied a wooden fish to a tree branch. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Go on, Horatio,” I said, nodding for him to continue his tale. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Kaisa listened intently, and when Ash was finished she said, “That was not a particularly happy tale.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “They looked rather at home in those tales, in fact. But if the children did not care for the actors’ tableaux,” she added slyly, “perhaps they will show us one of their own.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Others murmured “selkie” from time to time when she was remembered, but only as a fanciful tale. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “No,” Ma said, her words cracking the air around her, “she left to find a fairy tale. Never-Ending Mountain and the Old Man of the Moon! Of all the foolish things.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Ghost boys have disappeared, like they know it’s time for Emmett’s tale. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z Now imagine reading a nonfiction book packed with stories such as this—true tales soberly related—just before setting off alone on a camping trip of your own into the North American wilderness. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He knew just which books each of us liked best and that I would choose fairy tales, Ji-yong would get adventure stories, and Ji-yun would want animal stories. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Those of you—the six of you—who have read Neither Here nor There will recall Katz as my traveling companion around Europe in that tale of youthful adventure. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I own a well-used library card, an envelope full of dried beach roses, a book of fairy tales, and a handful of lovely purple rocks. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z He did not believe such tales himself, no more than his uncle had. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I loved The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling, with its tales of Mowgli, and especially loved the books about Tarzan, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z When Mrs. Sylvester stood in the middle of them with her scarf on her head and the big bag of swan food in her arms, she looked like something out of a fairy tale. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z I didn't want to be busted and thrown in jail so that someday I could tell my sad tale to others, just as the prisoners had told their woeful tales to me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Their names were as strange to me as their contents: Pinocchio, Aesop’s Fables and the fairy tales of the brothers Grimm. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe she was already making the connections she would later make, between village babies and this suburban one, between old wives’ tales and new endocrinology . Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The end of the war still seemed so far away, so unreal, like a fairy tale. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z A chill washed over her at the telling of this tale. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “It’s probably just some fairy tale for children,” Uncle said. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z "You did not come here to tell me crib tales. I know how little you like this place. What is it, my lady?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “You really are a fairy tale. Princess Madeline and the Glass Castle.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z And so here were the four who had flown to the citadel and lived to tell the tale—though they apparently hadn't told it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I sat down on the bed and watched the other kids change into pajamas, swapping random camp tales. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z “Some argue this ancient Sumerian tale’s worth, but I think all stories have value. Readers and listeners should decide which stories speak to them or not.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I tell a quick tale about Viking and Egyptian explorers traveling across the oceans. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z One week later, however, Ron was telling a thrilling tale of kidnap in which he struggled single-handedly against fifty heavily armed merpeople who had to beat him into submission before tying him up. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z It is a simple tale, but its message is an enduring one: virtue and generosity will be rewarded in ways that one cannot know. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, no memory. I have heard sugar taste like fairy tale.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, there are a few tales told of him which show him pitiless and cruel. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s my personal tale of mystery and misgivings, hatred and heroism, scandal and sacrifice. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I asked them about Jongilizwe, and for an hour I seemed to be back in Thembuland as they told colorful tales about his early years. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked grimly away, not wanting the loungers to see him make a friendly gesture, not wanting them to carry tales. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Deep down he had the feeling that somehow it would change everything, the way in fairy tales magic was spoiled if you shared the secret. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Pomp asked him of the sea’s lore, and he told us tales of sea-waifs in cradles of kelp, and the glowing corposants that crawl ship’s spars when guilty men keep crimes embosomed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z We spoke on the phone every night he was downstate, comparing notes and swapping tales about our respective days. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z All the best Northern tales are tragic, about men and women who go steadfastly forward to meet death, often deliberately choose it, even plan it long beforehand. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Here is the end of the tale, the monster said behind him. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z The overall bluntness of much of my life, the enforced reality of it, kept me from completely believing in things like psychic abilities, especially those from animals or other possible fairy tales. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z But when Miss Trotter’s tears fell, Vonetta placed her hand to her own lips, as if to tell herself to hush, to stop carrying their tales back and forth. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z “Yeah. Like something out of a fairy tale,” she says, grinning. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z And the wine flowed and tales were told and jokes were cracked, and then silence was made and the King's poet with two fiddlers stepped out into the middle of the circle. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Men that saw them whispered saying: ‘Belike the old tales speak well; there is Elvish blood in the veins of that folk, for the people of Nimrodel dwelt in that land once long ago.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z In all the fairy tales she had read, the fairies were described as unnaturally beautiful, and now Ash knew what that meant. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Wun Wun was very little like the giants in Old Nan’s tales, those huge savage creatures who mixed blood into their morning porridge and devoured whole bulls, hair and hide and horns. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Have you ever wondered why some people make beautiful songs and poems and tales, and some of us do not? Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “May I suggest a simple, harmless fairy tale, then?” the lead actor said, with only a touch of condescension. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z A young man burst out from the side of a stage and told the crowd, “And now the Moon Lady will come and tell her sad tale to you, in a shadow play, classically sung.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes the effort was grudging or minimal, but the vacant reaches in the human tale slowly contracted. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She put her hand to her face and raised her eyebrows, delighting in her tale. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She’d heard tales of the brutality of the mountain folk from that region, and seen a few of them up close, seen the fierceness in their eyes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z How could I expect this man or any other to believe my tales about other worlds, other races, a vague benevolent government somewhere off in outer space? The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z And yet now and again, I hear at conclave the rare tale of a scythe coming face to face with an imposter and having to glean them. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z |
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