Sample Sentences for
bard
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bard as in:  written by the bard

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    While we're on the topic of old Will's insufficiencies, your writing about young Hazel reminds me of the Bard's Fifty-fifth sonnet, which of course begins, "Not marble, nor the gilded monuments / Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; / But you shall shine more bright in these contents / Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time."  (source)
    Bard = Shakespeare
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    It was she who cast the deciding vote at the Shakespeare Reading Circle that the bard's works should be varied with those of Mr. Dickens and Mr. Bulwer-Lytton and not the poems of Lord Byron, as had been suggested by a young and, Melanie privately feared, very fast bachelor member of the Circle.  (source)
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    The grandson of Bard the Bowman rules them, Brand son of Bain son of Bard.†  (source)
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    Back to work-this is no time for a bard-on.†  (source)
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    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)
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    For a moment he lay on the ballroom floor, breathing bard.†  (source)
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    Bards?†  (source)
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    You can call it Mute Bard.†  (source)
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    I'm writing a satire on 'em now, calling it 'Boston Bards and Hearst Reviewers.'†  (source)
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    Armed with an insatiable desire to succeed—and aided by his natural gifts, which included a deeply resonant voice—he made his dream come true soon after finishing up at Bard College in 1971.†  (source)
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    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)
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    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)
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    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)
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    But Bard will remember me, and it is Bard I particularly want to see.  (source)
    Bard = the name of a character in this story
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    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)
    Bard = a proper noun in this book
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    "We will have King Bard!" the people near at hand shouted in reply.  (source)
    Bard = the name of a character in this story
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    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)
    Bard = a proper noun in this book
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    Then Bard drew his bow-string to his ear.  (source)
    Bard = the name of a character in this story
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    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)
    Bard = a proper noun in this book
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    And that was the end of Smaug and Esgaroth, but not of Bard.  (source)
    Bard = the name of a character in this story
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    And they praised the courage of Bard and his last mighty shot.  (source)
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    Bard the Dragon-shooter of the line of Girion!  (source)
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    Bard is he, of the race of Dale, of the line of Girion; he is a grim man but true.  (source)
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    I am Bard, of the line of Girion; I am the slayer of the dragon!  (source)
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    I am Bard, and by my hand was the dragon slain and your treasure delivered.  (source)
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    But Bard will remember me, and it is Bard I particularly want to see.  (source)
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