The romantic legends regarding Thamber had not been exaggerated; if anything they were under- stated.

A more romantic legend tells of a giant named Arogo who was extremely powerful and youthful.

His incomplete work spawned a kind of romantic legend.

All that was left of the great subject of romantic legend were his bones.

Her death has been the subject of a very persistent romantic legend.

It is thus the romantic legends of Granada mingle themselves with every thing, and are kept fresh in the public mind.

The chief was always too important to do battle, no matter what the romantic legends said.

So it is part of a romantic legend.

The real-life Vidocq was unmatched as a figure of romantic legend.

The Loyalists were not all aristocrats, as romantic legend would have it.