Legends

Examples

• Then there are Latin legends and rhymes at the bottom of each page. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Dejah Thoris related many interesting facts and legends concerning this lost race of noble and kindly people. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• But the truth of Lister, Modesto, and El Campesino was much better than the lies and legends. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Legends gather about the men who wrote it: those legends are absorbed by us almost with our mothers' milk. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• These statements are all well authenticated in many legends that are among the most trustworthy legends the good old Catholic monks preserve. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• His Saturday half-holiday he spent in the wood with his book of fairy legends, and that other unwritten book of his imagination. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I had heard vague rumours, little more than legends they were, during my former life on Mars; but never had I seen them, nor talked with one who had. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• In fact, his practical contrivances won such repute that it is not easy to separate the historical facts from the legends that enshroud his name. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• One knew nothing, except for a few monstrous legends, of the rest of the world in which one lived. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Whenever that strain is found in any race, there are to be found also thoughts and legends of sacrificial murders. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But, as we have already intimated, Yuan Chwang's account of Indian realities is swamped by his accumulation of legends and pious inventions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This book contained legends of the saints. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The legends of the Sunday Schools do him great injustice; they give one the impression that he was poor. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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