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Example sentences for: tale

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Dole rarely fished for sympathy when he retold the tale of his battle injury, leavening the reference by saying it won him a "bedpan promotion" to captain.
Minor was tried, found insane, and committed to the asylum at Cawthorne—hence the title of Winchester's book in Britain: The Surgeon of Cawthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness, and the Love of Words.
Patrick Marnham's Rivera is a breezy life and times, a raucous and gossipy tale that is only secondarily about painting.
Only then does the fairy tale begin.
Director François Girard ( Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould ) hits the musical theme again in this "odd, piquant tale" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ) that traces the peregrinations of a priceless 17 th -century violin.