"tale" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Sylvia Patterson from The Guardian described the song as a "mournful tale of lost love feeling like a catastrophic rehab meltdown".
- Now, stuck in Nuevo Laredo a fifth-rate joint, she recalled that night in Acapulco, and despite mournful tale she was about to relate her sense of comedy made b chuckle.
- The pleasure we experienced upon our first glance at Quebec was greatly damped by the sad conviction that the cholera-plague raged within her walls, while the almost ceaseless tolling of bells proclaimed a mournful tale of woe and death.
- We questioned every tribe and clan that came to us, and listened to their mournful tales.
- She's a friend of the book's author, the journalist William Van Meter; lyrics from her song "The Party" serve as the frontispiece to his mournful tale of the rape, murder, and immolation of an innocent young co-ed in Kentucky, by local boys gone bad.
- His public would naturally desire a ballad gazette of the mournful new tale, concerning a lass of Scottish extraction, betrayed, tortured, beheaded, at the far-off court of a Muscovite tyrant.
- I felt so good that I drove straight back to Greek Street, and poured out a mournful tale of failure.
- If we die, we die clinging to our tattered rights, and our blood alone shall tell the mournful tale of a murdered daughter and a ruined father.
- Lyrics: Gather round, ye lads and lasses, set ye for a while And hearken to me mournful tale about the Emerald...
- Only the children from their play Would pause the mournful tale to hear, Shrinking in half-alarm away, Or, step by step, would venture near To touch with timid curious hands That strange wild man from other lands.
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