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  • For a moment he lay on the ballroom floor, breathing bard.†   (source)
  • Back to work-this is no time for a bard-on.†   (source)
  • Hema's voice was sharp as a Bard-Parker blade and it nailed him in his seat.†   (source)
  • By then, Prusias's heralds and bards had spread word of "Bragha Rim" to every corner of the kingdom.†   (source)
  • Raymun Redbeard led them south in the time of my grandfather's grandfather, and before him there was a king named Bael the Bard.†   (source)
  • The grandson of Bard the Bowman rules them, Brand son of Bain son of Bard.†   (source)
  • Told that an old wooden chair in a corner by the chimney was where the bard himself had sat, the two American tourists cut off souvenir chips, this "according to the custom," as Adams was quick to note.†   (source)
  • Initially, before Oscar was readmitted to the United States, a director of plant operations at Bard e-mailed him to talk about hiring him in Nogales, Mexico.†   (source)
  • Tower teaches at Bard College.†   (source)
  • When the bard Demodocus sings of the fall of Troy and of the slaughter that accompanied it, Odysseus weeps and Homer says that his tears were like the tears of a wife on a battlefield weeping for the death of a fallen husband.†   (source)
  • It was as the storyteller, the bard, that Harriet's active years came to a close.†   (source)
  • I drink with the bards and the astrologers, with the actors and the servants, the coachmen and the tailors.†   (source)
  • It appeared to be quite large, but as Jan did now know the scale of the picture it was bard to judge.†   (source)
  • Yurii Andreievich was sufficiently well read to suspect that Kubarikha's last words repeated the opening passage of an ancient chronicle, either of Novgorod or Epatievo, but so distorted by copyists and the sorcerers and bards who had transmitted them orally for centuries that its original meaning had been lost.†   (source)
  • He kept squinting at the sun and breathing bard.†   (source)
  • The bard performed a narrative poem.
    bard = someone who composes and recites or sings poems about important events and people
  • A hundred years from now, what names shall drop from the bards' lips?†   (source)
  • Their feats were heroic enough to be sung about by bards throughout the land.†   (source)
  • "We will give the bards a reason to remember our names," retorted the smith.†   (source)
  • What is always said in praise of the Riders when the bards bemoan their passing?†   (source)
  • The bards never delved into such details because I daresay it complicates things.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he was just some common man who wanted bards to sing of him.†   (source)
  • Surely if they are so important, the bards and scholars would speak of them.†   (source)
  • What we accomplish in the next few hours, the bards will sing about for a hundred years to come.†   (source)
  • Either he names it himself or, once he proves his prowess with some extraordinary feat, the bards name it for him.†   (source)
  • The bards ate it up with a spoon and spread the tale to every shore.... The Demon paused and tapped his chin.†   (source)
  • The boy had dreamed of a day when bards would sing of his deeds and pretty girls would kiss him When I am grown I will be the King-Beyond-the-Wall, Lump had promised himself.†   (source)
  • From the courtyard, he could still hear the bards and musicians performing by the banquet tables laid out in.†   (source)
  • In spite of the toll her captivity had taken, it was apparent to Nasuada that Katrina was attractive enough, but not what the bards would call a great beauty.†   (source)
  • We will track down your chanters, your bards, and we will teach them the songs concerning Nar Tulkhqa, and we will make sure that they remember to recite them often and loudly.†   (source)
  • Bards?†   (source)
  • Courting some fabulously attractive young bard.†   (source)
  • "Well, exactly," said Hermione, now flicking through The Tales of Beedle the Bard.†   (source)
  • All right, so the Bard is always with us.†   (source)
  • Said Hermione, "The Tales of Beedle the Bard ...I've never even heard of them!†   (source)
  • What bard would compose an epic about our deeds and write aboutlace ?†   (source)
  • She was curled up in one of the sagging armchairs with The Tales of Beedle the Bard.†   (source)
  • She leaned forward and held out The Tales of Beedle the Bard.†   (source)
  • And she pulled out The Tales of Beedle the Bard from the small, beaded bag.†   (source)
  • Taena tells me that you are called the Blue Bard.†   (source)
  • She told me a story ..." ...of Bael the Bard and the rose of Winterfell.†   (source)
  • Only one has yet been questioned, a singer called the Blue Bard.†   (source)
  • Lord Bolton knows, and Ramsay, but the rest are blind, even this bloody bard with his sly smiles.†   (source)
  • "No," Ygritte said, "but a bard's truth is different than yours or mine.†   (source)
  • "That was butchery, not battle," the warrior bard Denzo D'han had been heard to declare afterward.†   (source)
  • From here, Brom returned to Carvahall, where he introduced himself as a bard and storyteller.†   (source)
  • In the end the Blue Bard told them his whole life, back to his first name day.†   (source)
  • He cut away the Blue Bard's clothing, until the man was naked but for his high blue boots.†   (source)
  • Bard or pander, Abel's voice was passable, his playing fair.†   (source)
  • "Let us be frank," said Denzo D'han, the warrior bard.†   (source)
  • Lord Qyburn ran a hand up the Blue Bard's chest.†   (source)
  • The Blue Bard's eyes were the same color as Robert's.†   (source)
  • The musicians began to play again, and the bard Abel began to sing "Two Hearts That Beat as One."†   (source)
  • I had the Blue Bard delivered to the High Septon, as Your Grace commanded.†   (source)
  • The bard sang "Iron Lances," then "The Winter Maid."†   (source)
  • To the Blue Bard he said, "I am sorry if the guards were rough with you.†   (source)
  • Alone, the Blue Bard's confession would never suffice.†   (source)
  • Cersei recalled the bard from Tommen's wedding.†   (source)
  • Margaery may wonder where her bard has gone.†   (source)
  • If folks in their little houses on the prairie could quote the Bard, is it likely that their writers "accidentally" wrote stories that paralleled his?†   (source)
  • Arliden the bard?†   (source)
  • For a lot of us, that particular show was either our first encounter with the Bard or our first intimation that he could actually be fun, since in public school, you may recall, they only teach his tragedies.†   (source)
  • Thus, all that remains to me are my own experiences, which I have attempted to interpret through the lens of a story, though I am also no bard.†   (source)
  • Having never composed a work of his own before, Eragon was gripped by the thrill of discovery that accompanies new ventures-especially since, previously, he had not suspected that he might enjoy being a bard.†   (source)
  • Nobody could have told him The Tales of Beedle the Bard when he was a child, any more than Harry had heard them.†   (source)
  • 'To Miss Hermione Jean Granger, I leave my copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, in the hope that she will find it entertaining and instructive.'†   (source)
  • Dumbledore left me The Tales of Beedle the Bard, how do you know we're not supposed to find out about the sign?†   (source)
  • But according to Beedle the Bard, they wouldn't want to come back, would they?" said Harry, thinking about the tail they had just heard.†   (source)
  • She took a deep breath, as though bracing herself, and said, "It's that mark, the mark in Beedle the Bard.†   (source)
  • Everyone exclaimed over the Deluminator and The Tales of Beedle the Bard and lamented the fact that Scrimgeour had refused to pass on the sword, but none of them could offer any suggestion as to why Dumbledore would have left Harry an old Snitch.†   (source)
  • Restless and irritable, Ron had developed an annoying habit of playing with the Deluminator in his pocket; This particularly infuriated Hermione, who was whiling away the wait for Kreacher by studying The Tales of Beedle the Bard and did not ap-preciate the way the lights kept flashing on and off.†   (source)
  • For a moment he had no idea what she was talking about, but, looking more closely with the aid of his lit wand, he saw that Dumbledore had replaced the A of Albus with a tiny version of the same triangular mark inscribed upon The Tales of Beedle the Bard.†   (source)
  • "Bael the Bard," said Jon, remembering the tale that Ygritte had told him in the Frostfangs, the night he'd almost killed her.†   (source)
  • I was moved to participate in a performance or two, but I fear the bard disapproved of my Iago—felt I'd misinterpreted the character.†   (source)
  • The Blue Bard played for us, and Ser Tallad showed us how to fight with a staff the way the smallfolk do.†   (source)
  • The Bard is safe.†   (source)
  • But as much as she wanted him to take the offer from Bard, she wasn't surprised by Oscar's decision to enlist: "I knew what was going to happen as soon as he got back to the U.S. It was his dream."†   (source)
  • You can trick out a milk cow in crupper, crinet, and chamfron, and bard her all in silk, but that doesn't mean you can ride her into battle.†   (source)
  • And when I told you the tale o' Bael the Bard and how he plucked the rose o' Winterfell, I thought you'd know to pluck me then for certain, but you didn't.†   (source)
  • Oscar's exile from the United States had drawn national media coverage and brought him to the attention of Bard, an S&P 500 company with twenty-one thousand employees that designs and manufactures health-care equipment.†   (source)
  • Raymun Redbeard, Bael the Bard, Gendel and Gorne, the Horned Lord, they all came south to conquer, but I've come with my tail between my legs to hide behind your Wall.†   (source)
  • "Bael the Bard made it," said Ygritte.†   (source)
  • I don't want to listen to any bard or minstrel of yours, and no matter how many times you ask me, I won't change my mind.†   (source)
  • Any bard who possessed such a mellifluous instrument would have his name praised throughout the land as a master of masters.†   (source)
  • The Word reverberated within Eragon's mind, and every part of his being seemed to thrum in response, as if he were an instrument upon which a bard had struck a chord.†   (source)
  • With the dinner, as with the feast the previous day, the dwarves provided song and music, and listening to the performance of a particularly skilled dwarf bard delayed the departure of their party even further.†   (source)
  • Afterward some bard will make a stirring song about you, no doubt, and we shall have a more prudent lord commander.†   (source)
  • He turned his head, his pale cold eyes searching the hall until they found the bard Abel beside Theon.†   (source)
  • Osney Kettleblack and the Blue Bard are here, beneath the Sept. The Redwyne twins have been declared innocent, and Hamish the Harper has died.†   (source)
  • Lord Ramsay commanded Abel to give them a marching song in honor of Stannis trudging through the snows, so the bard took up his lute again, whilst one of his washerwomen coaxed a sword from Sour Alyn and mimed Stannis slashing at the snowflakes.†   (source)
  • He calls himself a bard.†   (source)
  • Hamish the Harper plays for her once a fortnight, and sometimes Alaric of Eysen will entertain us of an evening, but the Blue Bard is her favorite.†   (source)
  • Jalabhar Xho had attached himself to the party too, as had Ser Lambert Turnberry with his eye patch, and the handsome singer known as the Blue Bard.†   (source)
  • Grand Maester Pycelle has admitted providing you with moon tea, and your Blue Bard ...if I were you, my lady, I would pray to the Crone for wisdom and to the Mother for her mercy.†   (source)
  • Instead of riding with her hens and their retinue of guardsmen and admirers, she spent all day in the Maidenvault with her hens, listening to the Blue Bard sing.†   (source)
  • I know the inn where the Blue Bard plays when he is not singing attendance on the little queen, and a certain cellar where a conjurer turns lead into gold, water into wine, and girls into boys.†   (source)
  • Cersei had written in the names herself: Ser Tallad the Tall, Jalabhar Xho, Hamish the Harper, Hugh Clifton, Mark Mullendore, Bayard Norcross, Lambert Turnberry, Horas Redwyne, Hobber Redwyne, and a certain churl named Wat, who called himself the Blue Bard.†   (source)
  • The Blue Bard went white.†   (source)
  • Celtic bards went out to the courts of Christian Europe; Celtic themes were rehearsed by the pagan Scandinavian scalds.†   (source)
  • Taliesin, "Chief of the Bards of the West," may have been an actual historical personage of the sixth century A.D., contemporary with the chieftain who became the "King Arthur" of later romance.†   (source)
  • And so when the bards and the heralds came to cry largess, and to proclaim the power of the king and his strength, at the moment that they passed by the corner wherein he was crouching, Taliesin pouted out his lips after them, and played "Blerwm, blerwm," with his finger upon his lips.†   (source)
  • I'm writing a satire on 'em now, calling it 'Boston Bards and Hearst Reviewers.'†   (source)
  • And the true bards have been noted for their firm and cheerful temper.†   (source)
  • The black bards caught new notes, and sometimes even dared to sing,— "O Freedom, O Freedom, O Freedom over me!†   (source)
  • He would have had his Erin famed, The green flag gloriously unfurled, Her statesmen, bards and warriors raised Before the nations of the World.†   (source)
  • He sang the kind of songs he knew—sentimental folk melodies, the ones you find in the handbooks of sport and business clubs, including one that contained the lines: The bards do praise both love and wine, Yet virtue still more often— and he hummed them softly at first, but soon was singing at the top of his voice.†   (source)
  • His preacher repeated the prophecy, and his bards sang,— "Children, we all shall be free When the Lord shall appear!"†   (source)
  • But our bards are no more," he said; "our deeds are lost in those of another race—our language—our very name—is hastening to decay, and none mourns for it save one solitary old man—Cupbearer!†   (source)
  • A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages.†   (source)
  • One, when the play is out, goes home to cards;
    A wild night on a wench's breast another chooses:
    Why should you rack, poor, foolish bards,
    For ends like these, the gracious Muses?†   (source)
  • Bards have written of the cestus of Venus, that turned the heads of all the world in successive generations.†   (source)
  • He was, in truth, a minstrel of the western continent—of a much later day, certainly, than those gifted bards, who formerly sang the profane renown of baron and prince, but after the spirit of his own age and country; and he was now prepared to exercise the cunning of his craft, in celebration of, or rather in thanksgiving for, the recent victory.†   (source)
  • Time out of mind strength and courage have been the theme of bards and romances; and from the story of Troy down to to-day, poetry has always chosen a soldier for a hero.†   (source)
  • Accordingly, his reign was like the course of a brilliant and rapid meteor, which shoots along the face of Heaven, shedding around an unnecessary and portentous light, which is instantly swallowed up by universal darkness; his feats of chivalry furnishing themes for bards and minstrels, but affording none of those solid benefits to his country on which history loves to pause, and hold up as an example to posterity.†   (source)
  • Mendicants were of course assembled by the score, together with strolling soldiers returned from Palestine, (according to their own account at least,) pedlars were displaying their wares, travelling mechanics were enquiring after employment, and wandering palmers, hedge-priests, Saxon minstrels, and Welsh bards, were muttering prayers, and extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, crowds, and rotes.†   (source)
  • The bard rose throughout the length and breadth of his brave new world.†   (source)
  • In an unwise absence, he left the Bard upon the wall.†   (source)
  • A mabinog (Welsh) is a bard's apprentice.†   (source)
  • The Bard's strewn host laughed, rustled noisily into line.†   (source)
  • Twittered with young bird-laughter, on bank and saddle sprawled, all of the Bard's personae.†   (source)
  • BIRLING stares bard, and with recognition, at photograph, which INSPECTOR then replaces in his pocket.†   (source)
  • You will have good news in a minute, that you will, and you want to seize the unforgiving minute, as the bard says.†   (source)
  • The Bard's profile murkily indented.†   (source)
  • And Miss Lambert, Miss Cutting and Miss Bard,' said Jinny, 'monumental ladies, white-ruffed, stone-coloured, enigmatic, with amethyst rings moving like virginal tapers, dim glow-worms over the pages of French, geography and arithmetic, presided; and there were maps, green-baize boards, and rows of shoes on a shelf.†   (source)
  • graph and she looks bard at it.†   (source)
  • The bard's legend and poems survive in a thirteenth-century manuscript, "The Book of Taliesin," which is one of the "Four Ancient Books of Wales.†   (source)
  • The larger portion of the bard's song is devoted to the Imperishable, which lives in him, only a brief stanza to the details of his personal biography.†   (source)
  • And he answered the king in verse: Primary chief bard am Ito Elphin, And my original country is the region of the summer stars; Idno and Heinin called me Merddin,* At length every king will call me Taliesin.†   (source)
  • "A bard," answered Elphin.†   (source)
  • And the mountains clove asunder; On the shore the stones were shattered:6 The stanza of the hero-bard resounds with the magic of the word of power; similarly, the sword edge of the hero-warrior flashes with the energy of the creative Source: before it fall the shells of the Outworn.†   (source)
  • The sages of the hermit groves and the wandering mendicants who play a conspicuous role in the life and legends of the East; in myth such figures as the Wandering Jew (despised, unknown, yet with the pearl of great price in his pocket); the tatterdemalion beggar, set upon by dogs; the miraculous mendicant bard whose music stills the heart; or the masquerading god, Zeus, Wotan, Viracocha, Edshu: these are examples.†   (source)
  • You recall, of course, the words of the Avon bard—'Thrice armed is he who hath his quarrel just.'†   (source)
  • It had even thrown its gleam, in the sufferer's bard extremity, across the verge of time.†   (source)
  • The might of Man, as in the Bard revealed.†   (source)
  • He told me once, with an air of pride, that his five bankruptcies were entirely due to 'The Bard,' as he insisted on calling him.†   (source)
  • In more than one case, too, when volumes of applauded verse proved incapable of anything better than a stifling smoke, an unregarded ditty of some nameless bard—perchance in the corner of a newspaper—soared up among the stars with a flame as brilliant as their own.†   (source)
  • The words of Sam and Humphrey on the harmony between the unknown and herself had on her mind the effect of the invading Bard's prelude in the "Castle of Indolence," at which myriads of imprisoned shapes arose where had previously appeared the stillness of a void.†   (source)
  • He appeared to have passed his life in always getting up into mountains and fighting somebody; and a bard whose name sounded like Crumlinwallinwer had sung his praises in a piece which was called, as nearly as I could catch it, Mewlinnwillinwodd.†   (source)
  • He stood before the tumbling main
    With joy too tense for sober brain;
    He shared the life of the element,
    The tie of blood and home was rent:
    As if in him the welkin walked,
    The winds took flesh, the mountains talked,
    And he the bard, a crystal soul,
    Sphered and concentric with the whole.†   (source)
  • I took what Joe gave me, and found it to be the crumpled play-bill of a small metropolitan theatre, announcing the first appearance, in that very week, of "the celebrated Provincial Amateur of Roscian renown, whose unique performance in the highest tragic walk of our National Bard has lately occasioned so great a sensation in local dramatic circles."†   (source)
  • Never minstrel, or by whatever more suitable name David should be known, drew upon his talents in the presence of more insensible auditors; though considering the singleness and sincerity of his motive, it is probable that no bard of profane song ever uttered notes that ascended so near to that throne where all homage and praise is due.†   (source)
  • What says the bard?†   (source)
  • Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.†   (source)
  • Or is there such virtue in the rude rhymes of a wandering bard, that domestic love, kindly affection, peace and happiness, are so wildly bartered, to become the hero of those ballads which vagabond minstrels sing to drunken churls over their evening ale?†   (source)
  • These are new poetry of the first Bard[282]—poetry without stop—hymn, ode and epic,[283] poetry still flowing, Apollo[284] and the Muses[285] chanting still.†   (source)
  • Did the bard speak with authority?†   (source)
  • A Saxon bard had called it a feast of the swords—a gathering of the eagles to the prey—the clashing of bills upon shield and helmet, the shouting of battle more joyful than the clamour of a bridal.†   (source)
  • And now, how stands the account of man with this bard and benefactor, when in solitude, shutting our ears to the reverberations of his fame, we seek to strike the balance?†   (source)
  • Then, when I call'd to take my leave and receive the letters, his secretary, Dr. Bard, came out to me and said the governor was extremely busy in writing, but would be down at Newcastle before the ship, and there the letters would be delivered to me.†   (source)
  • It is this error, often shared by philologists of sounder information, that lies under the doctrine that the plays of Shakespeare are full of slang, and that the Bard showed but a feeble taste in language.   (source)
    bard = Shakespeare
  • Yet louder, higher, stronger, bard!   (source)
    bard = a lyric poet
  • Bards are not to blame-
    Zeus is to blame.†   (source)
  • At once alert Odysseus carved a strip of loin,
    rich and crisp with fat, from the white-tusked boar
    that still had much meat left, and called the herald over:
    "Here, herald, take this choice cut to Demodocus
    so he can eat his fill—with warm regards
    from a man who knows what suffering is ...
    From all who walk the earth our bards deserve
    esteem and awe, for the Muse herself has taught them
    paths of song.†   (source)
  • it said,
    Know'st thou not there is but one theme for ever-enduring bards?†   (source)
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    Land of lands and bards to corroborate!†   (source)
  • Ample Ohio's, Kanada's bards—bards of California!†   (source)
  • has left no stone unturned in his efforts to delucidate and compare the verse recited and has found it bears a striking resemblance (the italics are ours) to the ranns of ancient Celtic bards.†   (source)
  • Today the bards must drink and junket.†   (source)
  • Come, Kinch, the bards must drink.†   (source)
  • —Our young Irish bards, John Eglinton censured, have yet to create a figure which the world will set beside Saxon Shakespeare's Hamlet though I admire him, as old Ben did, on this side idolatry.†   (source)
  • inland bards—
    bards of the war!†   (source)
  • Yet bards of latent armies, a million soldiers waiting ever-ready,
    Bards with songs as from burning coals or the lightning's fork'd stripes!†   (source)
  • And I saw the free souls of poets,
    The loftiest bards of past ages strode before me,
    Strange large men, long unwaked, undisclosed, were disclosed to me.†   (source)
  • Not for the bards of the past, not to invoke them have I launch'd
    you forth,
    Not to call even those lofty bards here by Ontario's shores,
    Have I sung so capricious and loud my savage song.†   (source)
  • (Shrouded bards of other lands, you may rest, you have done your work,)
    Soon I hear you coming warbling, soon you rise and tramp amid us,
    Pioneers!†   (source)
  • bards of the peaceful inventions!†   (source)
  • Bards for my own land only I invoke,
    (For the war the war is over, the field is clear'd,)
    Till they strike up marches henceforth triumphant and onward,
    To cheer O Mother your boundless expectant soul.†   (source)
  • I draw you close to me, you women,
    I cannot let you go, I would do you good,
    I am for you, and you are for me, not only for our own sake, but for
    others' sakes,
    Envelop'd in you sleep greater heroes and bards,
    They refuse to awake at the touch of any man but me.†   (source)
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    I listened to the Phantom by Ontario's shore,
    I heard the voice arising demanding bards,
    By them all native and grand, by them alone can these States be
    fused into the compact organism of a Nation.†   (source)
  • [II] Had I the Choice
    Had I the choice to tally greatest bards,
    To limn their portraits, stately, beautiful, and emulate at will,
    Homer with all his wars and warriors—Hector, Achilles, Ajax,
    Or Shakspere's woe-entangled Hamlet, Lear, Othello—Tennyson's fair ladies,
    Metre or wit the best, or choice conceit to wield in perfect rhyme,
    delight of singers;
    These, these, O sea, all these I'd gladly barter,
    Would you the undulation of one wave, its trick to me transfer,
    Or breathe one breath of yours upon my verse,
    And leave its odor there.†   (source)
  • Thee in an education grown of thee, in teachers, studies, students,
    born of thee,
    Thee in thy democratic fetes en-masse, thy high original festivals,
    operas, lecturers, preachers,
    Thee in thy ultimate, (the preparations only now completed, the
    edifice on sure foundations tied,)
    Thee in thy pinnacles, intellect, thought, thy topmost rational
    joys, thy love and godlike aspiration,
    In thy resplendent coming literati, thy full-lung'd orators, thy
    sacerdotal bards, kosmic savans,
    These!†   (source)
  • Where the city stands with the brawniest breed of orators and bards,
    Where the city stands that is belov'd by these, and loves them in
    return and understands them,
    Where no monuments exist to heroes but in the common words and deeds,
    Where thrift is in its place, and prudence is in its place,
    Where the men and women think lightly of the laws,
    Where the slave ceases, and the master of slaves ceases,†   (source)
  • Bards of the great Idea!†   (source)
  • From hence the Grecian bards their legends make, And give the name Avernus to the lake.†   (source)
  • The old bards shall cease, and their memory that lingers Of frail brides and faithless, shall be shrivelled as with fire.†   (source)
  • hearts, tongues, figures, scribes, bards, poets, cannot Think, speak, cast, write, sing, number—hoo!†   (source)
  • Alas, the bold blithe bards of old That all for joy their music made, For feasts and dancing manifold, That Life might listen and be glad.†   (source)
  • Suddenly I noticed that Laoghaire was not sharing my interest in the bard and his instruments.†   (source)
  • The herald placed the gift in Demodocus' hands
    and the famous blind bard received it, overjoyed.†   (source)
  • Why fault the bard if he sings the Argives' harsh fate?†   (source)
  • Medon the herald's with them, a gifted bard,
    and two henchmen, skilled to carve their meat.†   (source)
  • What a fine thing it is
    to listen to such a bard as we have here—
    the man sings like a god.†   (source)
  • I could listen to Gwyllyn the Welsh bard for hours, enthralled in spite of my total ignorance of what he was saying, most times.†   (source)
  • Casting a look at the upper end of the Hall, I saw a slender man who must be Gwyllyn the bard, judging from the small harp he carried.†   (source)
  • Colum poured another glass of wine from his own decanter, and with another wave, dispatched it via the servant in The bard's direction.†   (source)
  • At Colum's gesture, a servant hastened up to bring the bard a stool, on which he seated himself and proceeded to tune the harp, plucking lightly at the strings, ear close to the instrument.†   (source)
  • Each part of the bard's performance had been greeted with warm applause, though people chatted quietly while he played, making a deep hum below the high, sweet strains of the harp.†   (source)
  • Suddenly Medon and the inspired bard approached them,
    fresh from Odysseus' house, where they had just awakened.†   (source)
  • Call in the inspired bard
    Demodocus.†   (source)
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  • And while Bard paused in wonder it told him of tidings up in the Mountain and of all that it had heard.   (source)
    bard = the name of a character in this story
  • And that was the end of Smaug and Esgaroth, but not of Bard.   (source)
  • Then Bard drew his bow-string to his ear.   (source)
  • Bard went out to meet them, and with him went Bilbo.   (source)
  • I am Bard, of the line of Girion; I am the slayer of the dragon!   (source)
  • Bard, of course, refused to allow the dwarves to go straight on to the Mountain.   (source)
  • "Fools!" laughed Bard, "to come thus beneath the Mountain's arm!"   (source)
  • Bard is he, of the race of Dale, of the line of Girion; he is a grim man but true.   (source)
  • I am Bard, and by my hand was the dragon slain and your treasure delivered.   (source)
  • They buried Thorin deep beneath the Mountain, and Bard laid the Arkenstone upon his breast.   (source)
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  • Bard then sent messengers at once to the Gate; but they found no gold or payment.   (source)
  • Bard the Dragon-shooter of the line of Girion!   (source)
  • But Bard will remember me, and it is Bard I particularly want to see.   (source)
  • Even Bard gazed marvelling at it in silence.   (source)
  • "We will have King Bard!" the people near at hand shouted in reply.   (source)
  • And they praised the courage of Bard and his last mighty shot.   (source)
  • "Are you betraying your friends, or are you threatening us?" asked Bard grimly.   (source)
  • "Until then we keep the stone," cried Bard.   (source)
  • Nothing they could say would stop him; so an escort was provided for him, and as he went both the king and Bard saluted him with honour.   (source)
  • Let 'King Bard' go back to his own kingdom-Dale is now freed by his valour, and nothing binders his return.   (source)
  • At the least he shall deliver one twelfth portion of the treasure unto Bard, as the dragon-slayer, and as the heir of Girion.   (source)
  • But Bard and some of the nimblest of men and elves climbed to the height of the Eastern shoulder to gain a view to the North.   (source)
  • Now everywhere Bard went he found talk running like fire among the people concerning the vast treasure that was now unguarded.   (source)
  • "I am the last man to undervalue Bard the Bowman," said the Master warily (for Bard now stood close beside him).   (source)
  • "We are not thieves," Bard answered.   (source)
  • Down too came many of the Lake-men, for Bard could not restrain them; and out upon the other side came many of the spearmen of the elves.   (source)
  • From that treasure Bard sent much gold to the Master of Lake-town; and he rewarded his followers and friends freely.   (source)
  • Then Bilbo, not without a shudder, not without a glance of longing, handed the marvellous stone to Bard, and he held it in his hand, as though dazed.   (source)
  • "A just question," replied Bard.   (source)
  • "To the Mountain!" called Bard.   (source)
  • Now Bard was fighting to defend the Eastern spur, and yet giving slowly back; and the elf-lords were at bay about their king upon the southern arm, near to the watch-post on Ravenhill.   (source)
  • The knowledge that the Arkenstone was in the hands of the besiegers burned in their thoughts; also they guessed the hesitation of Bard and his friends, and resolved to strike while they debated.   (source)
  • "The Elvenking is my friend, and he has succoured the people of the Lake in their need, though they had no claim but friendship on him," answered Bard.   (source)
  • Yet a fourteenth share of all the silver and gold, wrought and unwrought, was given up to Bard; for Dain said: "We will honour the agreement of the dead, and he has now the Arkenstone in his keeping."   (source)
  • Their captain was Bard, grim-voiced and grim-faced, whose friends had accused him of prophesying floods and poisoned fish, though they knew his worth and courage.   (source)
  • "My dear Bard!" squeaked Bilbo.   (source)
  • Wondering, the dwarves saw that among them were both Bard and the Elvenking, before whom an old man wrapped in cloak and hood bore a strong casket of iron-bound wood.   (source)
  • That is how it came about that some two hours after his escape from the Gate, Bilbo was sitting beside a warm fire in front of a large tent, and there sat too, gazing curiously at him, both the Elvenking and Bard.   (source)
  • "King Bard!" they shouted;   (source)
  • But the king, when he received the prayers of Bard, had pity, for he was the lord of a good and kindly people; so turning his march, which had at first been direct towards the Mountain, he hastened now down the river to the Long Lake.   (source)
  • "Bard is not lost!" he cried.   (source)
  • This is the plan that he made in council with the Elvenking and with Bard; and with Dain, for the dwarf-lord now joined them: the Goblins were the foes of all, and at their coming all other quarrels were forgotten.   (source)
  • No one had dared to give battle to him for many an age; nor would they have dared now, if it had not been for the grim-voiced man (Bard was his name), who ran to and fro cheering on the archers and urging the Master to order them to fight to the last arrow.   (source)
  • Bard had rebuilt the town in Dale and men had gathered to him from the Lake and from South and West, and all the valley had become tilled again and rich, and the desolation was now filled with birds and blossoms in spring and fruit and feasting in autumn.   (source)
  • From that portion Bard will himself contribute to the aid of Esgaroth; but if Thorin would have the friendship and honour of the lands about, as his sires had of old, then he will give also somewhat of his own for the comfort of the men of the Lake.   (source)
  • But help came swiftly; for Bard at once had speedy messengers sent up the river to the Forest to ask the aid of the King of the Elves of the Wood, and these messengers had found a host already on the move, although it was then only the third day after the fall of Smaug.   (source)
  • I would rather old Smaug had been left with all the wretched treasure, than that these vile creatures should get it, and poor old Bombur, and Balin and Fili and Kili and all the rest come to a bad end; and Bard too, and the Lake-men and the merry elves.   (source)
  • Meanwhile Bard took the lead, and ordered things as he wished, though always in the Master's name, and he had a hard task to govern the people and direct the preparations for their protection and housing.   (source)
  • Bard had given him much gold for the help of the Lake-people, but being of the kind that easily catches such disease he fell under the dragon-sickness, and took most of the gold and fled with it, and died of starvation in the Waste, deserted by his companions.   (source)
  • So it was that Bard's messengers found him now marching with many spearmen and bowmen; and crows were gathered thick, above him, for they thought that war was awakening again, such as had not been in those parts for a long age.   (source)
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