But she told him the full tale of that discontent, more indeed than he wanted to hear.

The full tale spills out in a daunting number of directions.

The full tale will never be told, I think; few know it.

If readers come away feeling they understand the full tale, they have not been reading carefully.

He didn't dare write the full tale in case the letter fell into the wrong hands.

But later you must give me the full tale, Captain.

But you shall hear the full tale in the song.

Some part of that tale is known to all, but the full tale to few.

Well, I am glad to have heard the full tale.

Then Feanor fell upon his face and lay as one dead, until the full tale was told.