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  • I think we'd be reasonable to conclude that the whole Count Dracula saga has an agenda to it beyond merely scaring us out of our wits, although scaring readers out of their wits is a noble enterprise and one that Stoker's novel accomplishes very nicely.   (source)
  • Chicago's "feeling of humiliation" was not surprising, the New York Times said; anyone familiar with the saga "must be amazed at the failure of the municipal police department and the local prosecuting officers not only to prevent those awful crimes, but even to procure any knowledge of them."   (source)
  • Here in the Nordic countries we find a strong belief in "lagnadan," or fate, in the old Icelandic sagas of the Edda.   (source)
    sagas = long involved stories
  • …the old woman of a hundred and five who had declared she would live until Mr Galsworthy finished The Forsyte Saga, and who had died less than an hour after having the final page of the final volume read to her;   (source)
    saga = long involved story
  • Thane; they will recite our sagas.   (source)
    sagas = long involved stories
  • Here we are: Pterodactyl, Kite of Destruction! or what about Drums of Doom: The Saga of the Thunder Lizards!   (source)
    saga = long involved story
  • The saga of Kasturba Nagar is unsettling, with no easy moral.   (source)
  • The power of his saga was-and is-driven instead by the tough choices that Cedric made and how those choices set his course and, over time, nourished his character.   (source)
  • Thibault gazed at the floor, resting his elbows on his knees, and began, hesitantly, to tell her the whole saga of the photograph.   (source)
  • He's a self-perfected American who must respect the saga of the knockabout boy emerging from a tenement culture, from backstreets slant with danger.   (source)
  • Besides, compared to other episodes in the Stephen Von Stratten saga, this chapter was nothing.   (source)
  • I scanned the bookshelves: my favorite fantasy and horror authors from when I was younger—Stephen King, Darren Shan, Neal Shusterman, Michael Grant, Joe Hill; my favorite graphic novel series—Scott Pilgrim, Sandman, Watchmen, Saga; plus a lot of books I'd been meaning to read at the library.   (source)
  • All very saga-like. Old-school heroic, but with other meanings.   (source)
  • When Madame Wang saw we were all waiting, she wiggled her bottom on the stool to get comfortable and began the saga.   (source)
  • In the blaze of the evening light he looked, not a man, but a young God, a Hero God out of some Northern Saga.   (source)
  • And a few others from other ghost towns—the Takasakis, Sagas, Sonodas.†   (source)
  • Next thing I know, I'm getting the whole epic saga about his hard financial luck' none of which was his fault, of course'and how he was about to turn it all around with this new venture.†   (source)
  • His saga began on May 20, 1990, when a police car came and took him away for a dirty little crime he didn't do.†   (source)
  • And thus the saga of PT-109 comes to an end, even as the legend of PT-109 is born.†   (source)
  • Your loving Granddaughter, Alison Bradley In the saga of the figures in The Photograph, my dad came to play a unique role.†   (source)
  • Be not afraid to undertake the burdens of your leader, and the work of the Founder will be one of ever unfolding glory, the history of the race a saga of mounting triumphs.†   (source)
  • Then a voice called from outside, "Buzz obsess woos saga!"†   (source)
  • No. A mortal may not kill an immortal, as anyone knows who has heard the sagas and eddas, the great poems and tales, knows.†   (source)
  • Harald Haarfager, a Saga, by Gundar Firkin.†   (source)
  • He took Louie aside and began asking questions, and Louie recounted his entire saga.   (source)
  • I remember the epics and lays I heard in Ilirea-sagas of your proud kings and earls-but it was long, long ago and the memories are like withered flowers in my mind.   (source)
    sagas = long involved stories
  • The last news of Allen had reached him weeks earlier, in newspaper stories about Super Man's saga over Nauru.   (source)
    saga = long involved story
  • This is a saga of courage, cowardice, and betrayal.†   (source)
  • My service to the saga is complete, six years since the day I handed over the manuscript.†   (source)
  • The saga of Lincoln's assassination went on long after he died.†   (source)
  • They gave me a beautiful book, Dutch Sagas and Legends, but they gave me Volume II by mistake, so I exchanged two other books for Volume I. Aunt Helene brought me a puzzle, Aunt Stephanie a darling brooch and Aunt Leny a terrific book: Daisy Goes to the Mountains.†   (source)
  • For an English professor, and for any avid reader, having a blithely ignorant (and only recently clued-in) husband narrate the saga of his wife's longtime infidelity is about as good as it gets.†   (source)
  • The old myths and sagas from heathen times were rediscovered, and composers all over Europe began to incorporate folk melodies into their compositions in an attempt to bridge the gap between folk music and art music.†   (source)
  • Norse sagas, Samoan creation stories, Gravity's Rainbow, The Tale of Genji, Hamlet, last year's graduation speech, last week's Dave Barry column, On the Road and Road to Rio and "The Road Not Taken."†   (source)
  • Rath's saga offers a glimpse of the brutality inflicted routinely on women and girls in much of the world, a malignancy that is slowly gaining recognition as one of the paramount human rights problems of this century.†   (source)
  • Now, in 2006, the immortal image's continuing power moves Bantam Books and Clint Eastwood to enhance and retell the saga.†   (source)
  • The MS of Harald Haarfager, a Saga came neither unsolicited through the mail nor from an agent but was delivered into my hands by the author himself.†   (source)
  • When I mentioned this, he smiled and turned those grave, wistful, haunted, hinterland eyes on me and said: "Oh, I thought you could tell—the other suitcase has the rest of my saga."†   (source)
  • In itself this saga, or episode, or fantasia has little direct bearing on Sophie and Nathan, and so I have hesitated to set it down, thinking it perhaps extraneous stuff best suited to another tale and time.†   (source)
  • The saga itself is in a species of English, one would think it was written by Dryden in mock imitation of Spenser if one did not know the awful truth: those nights and days and twenty years on the frigid Dakota steppe, dreaming of ancient Norway, scratching away while the wild wind out of Saskatchewan howls through the bending wheat: "Oh thou great leader, HARALD, how great is thy grief!†   (source)
  • of the New York Public Library, where in the periodical room he scratched notes by the dozen on Nuremberg revelations he had missed and where he borrowed Volumes with titles like The Jew and Human Sacrifice, The New Poland and the Jews and The Promise Hitler Kept), and with his astonishing retentiveness, made himself an expert on the Nazi saga and the Jew, as he had in so many other areas of knowledge.†   (source)
  • Oh, spare me your saga about shooting Yankees and facing Sherman's army.†   (source)
  • Some were vulgar, some were sagas, some were light-hearted to a degree.†   (source)
  • The evening sea was a new sensation, for all its color and mellow age was gone, and it seemed the bleak waste that made the Norse sagas sad; Amory thought of Kipling's "Beaches of Lukanon before the sealers came."†   (source)
  • Listening to him makes you think there's something to those stories about love potions and the other stuff they talk about in old sagas.†   (source)
  • She knew long portions of the "Frithjof Saga" by heart, and, like most Swedes who read at all, she was fond of Longfellow's verse,—the ballads and the "Golden Legend" and "The Spanish Student."†   (source)
  • This invention was bound to be inconclusive, for both figures were needed later in the saga—Paris must kill Akhilleus, and Menelaos must take Helen home at last.†   (source)
  • By the time The Iliad was written down, Gilgamesh had been the most popular heroic saga throughout the Near East for a thousand years, being translated and transmitted on baked clay tablets through the lands of Asia Minor and all the way to the Mediterranean.†   (source)
  • Nestor is sometimes taken as a garrulous old Polonius; but experience is greatly respected in his society, and his long speeches play a role in several of the poem's turning points.9 Helen does not mention Nestor, and this may indicate that Homer has enlarged his role in the saga, both to provide a foil to Agamemnon's imprudence and to widen the scope of his tale with Nestor's recollections of long-ago cattle raids in southwest Peloponnesus.†   (source)
  • But it should be borne in mind that, for an eighth-century audience, stories about the great old days were as liable to exaggeration and idealization as American sagas of the Wild West or English legends of King Arthur.†   (source)
  • Soon she was talking fluently, pouring out the saga of her miseries and maybe enjoying the tale a bit and making it just a shade more hair-raising to hold my attention.†   (source)
  • We should not now combine a Norse saga with an excerpt from a novel by George Meredith.†   (source)
  • I see the places of the sagas,
    I see pine-trees and fir-trees torn by northern blasts,
    I see granite bowlders and cliffs, I see green meadows and lakes,
    I see the burial-cairns of Scandinavian warriors,
    I see them raised high with stones by the marge of restless oceans,
    that the dead men's spirits when they wearied of their quiet
    graves might rise up through the mounds and gaze on the tossing
    billows, and be refresh'd by storms, immensity, liberty, action.†   (source)
  • With my fathers and mothers and the accumulations of past ages,
    With all which, had it not been, I would not now be here, as I am,
    With Egypt, India, Phenicia, Greece and Rome,
    With the Kelt, the Scandinavian, the Alb and the Saxon,
    With antique maritime ventures, laws, artisanship, wars and journeys,
    With the poet, the skald, the saga, the myth, and the oracle,
    With the sale of slaves, with enthusiasts, with the troubadour, the
    crusader, and the monk,
    With those old continents whence we have come to this new continent,
    With the fading kingdoms and kings over there,
    With the fading religions and priests,
    With the small shores we look back to from our own large an†   (source)
  • Jugglers and acrobats entertained the guests, as well as a troupe of actors who performed a play called Az Sartosvrenht rak Balmung, Grimstnzborith rak Kvisagur, which Hundfast told Eragon meant The Saga of King Balmung of Kvisagur.   (source)
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