Tales
[teɪlz] or ['teliz]
Definition
(n.) Persons added to a jury, commonly from those in or about the courthouse, to make up any deficiency in the number of jurors regularly summoned, being like, or such as, the latter.
(syntactically sing.) The writ by which such persons are summoned.
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Definition
n.pl. a list of persons apparently a selection from spectators in court made by the sheriff or judge at a trial to supply any defect in a jury or panel.—n. Tā′lesman a bystander so chosen.—Pray a tales to plead that the number of jurymen be completed in this way.
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Examples
- I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which would disgust you with human nature. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I wonder whether he has been trying any of his traveller's tales on us? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Of what tales are you speaking? Plato. The Republic.
- When I was a very little girl, Mr. Moore, my nurse used to tell me tales of fairies being seen in that Hollow. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures into a series of tales. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- There you are right, he replied; but if any one asks where are such models to be found and of what tales are you speaking--how shall we answer him? Plato. The Republic.
- Such tales may possibly have a mystical interpretation, but the young are incapable of understanding allegory. Plato. The Republic.
- I took a book--some Arabian tales; I sat down and endeavoured to read. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- We're not going to hear any of those tales. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And here are Crabbe's Tales, and the Idler, at hand to relieve you, if you tire of your great book. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The sceptic will object,—Fairy tales! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- She didn't like dolls, fairy tales were childish, and one couldn't draw all the time. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I never thought it would go where it could tell tales, said Jo, tearing up the verses the Professor had treasured so long. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- But, like the Kings and Queens in the Fairy Tales, I suppose you have wished for one? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But he was ambitious, and when he was sixteen, a friend having brought him glowing tales of the great cotton-mills in the fast-growing city of Lowell, he decided to seek his fortune there. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Luckily there is no distinction of dress nowadays to tell tales, but--but--but Yours affectionately. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- These two young couples had plenty of tales to relate to each other. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I don't tell tales, replied Laurie, with his 'high and mighty' air, as Jo called a certain expression which he occasionally wore. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- You believed rather the tales you heard of our poltroonery and impotence of body and mind. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Mr. Hale had his own acquaintances among the working men, and was depressed with their earnestly told tales of suffering and long-endurance. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Don't tell me tales. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He made a collection of old German songs and tales, but these were destroyed by his successor Louis the Pious on account of their paganism. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is these tales which have caused that reserve in your manner towards Graham which your father noticed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Though she is just the sort of beautiful creature that is imprisoned with ogres in fairy tales. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Well, my dear doubter, how do you know that fairy tales do not contain a germ of truth? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Such tales as that will never tempt my tongue. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Such tales may have their use; but they are not the proper food for soldiers. Plato. The Republic.
- But honourable lads will not tell tales upon a lady. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Being seated, he takes from his satchel a book--not the Latin grammar, but a contraband volume of fairy tales. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I didn't mean to preach or tell tales or be silly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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