176 Verbs to Use for the Word legends

Had the confident fellow told us half the legends on land, which he favoured us with on the other element, I flatter myself the good sense of most of us would have revolted.

Next day she heard all the floating legends that were beginning to rise in the house.

Bibbs was the last to arrive on the scene of action, and did so with a bag of sweets in one hand, a book in the other, and a piece of paper, pinned by some joker to the tail of his coat, bearing the legend, "Please to kick me"a request which was immediately responded to in a most hearty and generous fashion by all present.

The semi-official Kölnische Zeitung (August 4th) contained a legend which set all Germany hunting for French motor-cars.

These are the pines that puzzle the local botanist, not easily determined, and unrelated to other conifers of the Sierra slope; the same pines of which the Indians relate a legend mixed of brotherliness and the retribution of God.

In subject-matter the book belongs to the mediæval age; but Malory himself, with his desire to preserve the literary monuments of the past, belongs to the Renaissance; and he deserves our lasting gratitude for attempting to preserve the legends and poetry of Britain at a time when scholars were chiefly busy with the classics of Greece and Rome.

Thus we find among the popular literature of the Magreb the same legends, but edited in Arabic.

Thus runs the legend.

I have read legends of disastrous Dames: Will none set pen to paper for poore me?

But not in vain had he grown old: more than the white hairs on his head were the sage thoughts in his mind; his wrinkles and furrows were inscriptions that Time had graved, and in which he had written legends of wisdom that had been tested by the tenor of a life.

Sir George Temple, in his "Excursions in the Mediterranean," mentions a legend relative to the origin of the geranium.

Should they ask for history, they are given a legend.

In connection with this structure, I learned the following legend.

In 1902 the distinguished American artist Howard Pyle undertook to retell and illustrate the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.

Quite recently (January 1909), when the nearly extinct volcano of Banahao shook itself and scattered a few tons of mud over the surrounding landscape, the people thereabout recalled this old legend, saying that it was their King Bernardo making another effort to get that right foot loose.

Yes, gentlemen, the words 'I love you!'the oldest legend of all; the refrain, 'when the morning stars sang together'were presented to the plaintiff by a medium so insignificant that there is, happily, no coin in the republic low enough to represent its value.

"But, after all, cannot one very often trace the same legend through the folklore of various countries?

On the summit of these mountains tower the remains of Gothic castles or keeps, still majestic, tho' in ruins, and frowning on the plains below; they bring to one's recollection the legends and chronicles of the Middle Ages.

The music of the birds kept time to the sound of the postilions' whipsthe streams sung a fairy legend, and the merry woods, touched with the brilliant glow of an Italian sun, breathed into the air a delicious sonata.

Even Colonel Buchan in his admirable history of the war, and Major Whitton in his recent book on the campaign of the Marne, repeat the current legend.

When, under the glamor of her radiant skies the faded hues flash forth once more, there is no ruin nor decay, nor touch of conquering hand of man nor time, only a splendid city of dreams, waiting in silenceas all visions waituntil that invisible, haunting spirit has turned the legends of her power into actual activities.

I'm studying the legends and traditions of our place, Glencardine.

There is one spot less upon the sun since the theft from heaven of Prometheus Daguerre and his fellow-adventurers has enabled us to understand the ancient legend.

I have selected these nations because their myths have been most fully recorded, not that they alone possessed this striking legend.

He will swallow an undated, unlocalised legend of Coleridge, reaching Coleridge on the testimony of rumour, and told at least twenty years after the unverified occurrences.

176 Verbs to Use for the Word  legends