"tale" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The feeding dragon evoked scores of horrid tales.
- I went for Greenpeace as I couldn't bear to assail my husband with horrid tales of torture etc - better the death of the Baltic (filmed footage of which I have seen) over the dinner table.
- The opera is drawn from an 1864 short story by Nikolai Leskov, a horrid tale of Katerina Ismailova, the frustrated, childless, murderous wife of a successful provincial merchant in mid-19th-century Russia.
- You tell me an horrid tale of Wieland being led to the destruction of his wife and children, by some mysterious agent.
- They had told a horrid tale of the fate of the captured troops, who were beheaded by the Mujahideen.
- Oh, the next morning she'd be boasting, telling me horrid tales in order to make me suffer-crossing the bridge and heading over to the colored part of town, things like that.
- They then told me a horrid tale of crime and violence.
- I have no distractions now to continuing a horrid tale, except that of numb fingers.
- Telling us that horrid tale of how Tara had roasted a new born baby on the blade of her sword before its mother's eyes.
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