"legend" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He has come to be venerated as Saint Mercurialis, around which fanciful legends have sprung.
- A series of fanciful legends has developed about the origin of aiguillettes.
- The fanciful legend of its origin is that three convicted felons who had committed a crime together were due to be executed in Stafford gaol.
- The storyline of the opera is fashioned from the fanciful legend told by Pierre Bourdelot in his 1715 Histoire de la musique.
- However, Thurston's book quotes the Travancore Gazetteer as terming this legend silly and fanciful.
- So they have concocted fanciful legends to account for such evidence.
- It had been a charming and perhaps not entirely fanciful legend.
- Christina is an early virgin martyr with a legend too fanciful to have much historical credibility.
- The saints' lives are full of fanciful legend, and in not a few cases contain accounts of 13th century miracles wrought at special places, particularly with reference to the Dominicans.
- The fanciful legend endures that one of the prototypes remains intact somewhere.
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