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There was a tale about a hare on the moon who worked hard grinding ingredients for an elixir by using a mortar and pestle.
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There and was
There was brush, and stands of pine that no grass could grow under, and places so steep that cattle wouldn't stop to graze.
There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.
There a dozen giant monitors played their seventy-five-foot jets of water against the huge seam of tertiary gravel which was the mountainside.
There was only one place where the mountain might receive her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom.
There was a peculiar density about it, a thick substance that could be sensed but never identified, never actually perceived.
There was some idle talk, a listless discussion of this or that small happening during the day's drive.
There was a feeling that this mission would be canceled like all the others and that this muddy wet dark world of combat would go on forever.
There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.
There was something about the contour of her face, her smile that was like New Orleans sunshine, the way she held her head, the way she walked -- there was scarcely anything she did which did not fascinate me.
There and tale
There is a persistent, but unsupported, tale that he repudiated his earlier works, including the Decameron, in 1362, as profane.
There is also a tale about a tunnel in the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona near Cedar Creek which is said to lead inside the earth to a land inhabited by a mysterious tribe.
There was one John the Baptist, who was the forerunner of Jesus in accordance with the law of parity ; and as Jesus had twelve Apostles, bearing the number of the twelve solar months, so had he thirty leading men, making up the monthly tale of the moon.
There is a Breton parallel in the tale of the Cité d ' Ys, similarly drowned as a result of its debauchery with a single virtuous survivor escaping on a horse, in this case King Gradlon.
There he drew inspiration for Les Chouans ( 1829 ), a tale of love gone wrong amid the Chouan royalist forces.
Jack Zipes writes in When Dreams Came True, " There are fairy tale elements in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, and ... in many of William Shakespeare plays ".
There are other versions of the Ramayana, notably Ramavataram in Tamil, the Buddhist ( Dasaratha Jataka No. 461 ) and Jain in India, and also Cambodian, Indonesian, Philippine, Thai, Lao, Burmese and Malay versions of the tale.
There is a tale being told in Moss about the Church fire: The city of Moss always had a lot of crows, most likely because of the corn being harvested in the region.
There is a short tale written by Jorge Luis Borges (" The House of Asterion ") telling the story of Theseus and Ariadne from the point-of-view of Asterius.
There are various local legends explaining this curious plaque, including a tale of the theft of a cherry pie by local workmen who were caught and fined half a guinea ( 52. 5p ).
There is no contemporary evidence to support this account, nor the allegation that he fled the battle, nor the tale that his assassin impersonated a priest in order to approach James.
There are several theories about the origin of the name " Iwate ", but the most well known is the tale Oni no tegata, which is associated with the Mitsuishi or " Three Rocks " Shrine in Morioka.
There are earlier elements that contributed to the tale, in the medieval courtly romance Perceforest ( published in 1528 ), in which a princess named Zellandine falls in love with a man named Troylus.
There is the Children of Húrin, the tragic tale of Túrin Turambar and his sister Níniel – of which Túrin is the hero: a figure that might be said ( by people who like that sort of thing, though it is not very useful ) to be derived from elements in Sigurd the Volsung, Oedipus, and the Finnish Kullervo.
There even exists an Arabic work, written in Persia near the Indian subcontinent, Mojmal al-tawarikh ( 12th century CE ) which tells a similar tale of a king whose name appears to be a corruption of ' Vikramaditya '.
There is an ongoing debate among Egyptologists as to whether or not the tale is based on actual events involving an individual named Sinuhe, with the consensus being that it is most likely a work of fiction.
As one reviewer puts it: “ There is no plot whatever … Babbitt simply grows two years older as the tale unfolds .” Lewis presents a chronological series of scenes in the life of his title character.
There is a local folk tale that a tombstone in the churchyard marking the grave of Richard Smith, a young saddler murdered in the Market Place in 1727, " bleeds " every April.
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