Bards
[bɑ:dz]
Examples
- Priscus describes how bards chanted before Attila. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Verbal tradition was developed to its highest possibility by the bards. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- By the time bronze was coming into Europe there was not an Aryan people that had not a profession and training of bards. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Bards have written of the cestus of Venus, that turned the heads of all the world in successive generations. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I am a poet, not a ruler; and Napoleons are made of stronger stuff than mere bards piping their idle song, and letting the world go by. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The bards and rhapsodists flourished for long after the introduction of writing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These bards were living books, man-histories, guardians and makers of a new and more powerful tradition in human life. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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