These all culminate in frightening depictions of a powerful king who, like the Babylonian rulers of the court tales, attacks Israel, defiles the temple, and incurs divine judgment.

These are not fairy tales my dear Cowper but actual gruesome reality in the heart of this poor, benighted savage land.

These tales have been compared to the Dying Earth sequence of Jack Vance.

It consists of a group of heroic tales dealing with the lives of Conchobar mac Nessa, king of Ulster, the great hero Cú Chulainn, the son of Lug, and of their friends, lovers, and enemies. These are the Ulaid, or people of the North-Eastern corner of Ireland and the action of the stories centres round the royal court at Emain Macha ( known in English as Navan Fort ), close to the modern town of Armagh.

These films are often created under the guise of cyberpunk action movies, fantasy dramas, and apocalyptic tales.

These documents provide important information on ancient writings ; they give us the only extant copy of Menander, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, Egyptian treatises on medicine ( the Ebers Papyrus ) and on surgery ( the Edwin Smith papyrus ), Egyptian mathematical treatises ( the Rhind papyrus ), and Egyptian folk tales ( the Westcar papyrus ).

These ersatz tales — which included the notion that Prince Albert invented the piercing that shares his name in order to tame the appearance of his large penis in tight trousers — are widely circulated as urban legend.

These tales reflect Samoa's colorful and at times fierce past.

These gatherings in turn are a popular setting for early Irish tales.

These tales seem to escalate in their degrees of munificence until the end, where the day ( and the entire Decameron ) reaches an apex in the story of patient Griselda.

These are the literary fairy tales, or Kunstmärchen.

These characters have appeared in literary fiction – including penny dreadfuls, pulp comics, Victorian, Romanticism and Renaissance literature, steampunk, Gothic novels, fairy tales, mythology and folklore – as well as in film, television programs, comic book series and graphic novels, radio shows, and even video games.

These tales include receiving the Beyonder's power and creating " New Parker City ", Spider-Man and the Thing spying on Dr. Doom and a story featuring Spider-Man's suspicions concerning the Hulk.

These tales are usually told as a way to teach lessons to Lakota youth.

These tales were important to the Stoics for establishing a chain of teaching that ran from Socrates to Zeno.

These tales include an indictment of human folly at presuming to take on the role of creator.

These stories were straightforward beginning-middle-end tales, but included a few sly hints about the subjects of Illuminatus!

These Sherlock Holmes tales were written in 1952 and 1953, but have been republished subsequently.

These were folk tales re-telling old stories, and the actors travelled from town to town performing these for their audiences in return for money and hospitality.

These names of peoples having formed in present-day Sweden, the Anglo-Saxon references and now lost tales they were attached to must have travelled across the North Sea.

These tales are collected in books of hagiography such as the Golden Legend or the works of Caesar of Heisterbach.

These miracle tales made relics much sought after during the Middle Ages.

These tales are notable because the time frame in which they were written predates the above examples by many years.

These tales mainly interpret various natural objects and features as traces of Kalevipoeg's deeds and have similarities with national epics from neighbouring regions, especially the Finnish Kalevala, and also in Scandinavia.

These new pictures focussed on the familiar and commonplace objects that he had heard the men in his prison camp talking about as the things they missed most, hence associated with the sense of lost freedom: the cafe at the corner, the newspaper kiosk, the girls in doorways and windows along the street, the golden-crusted French bread they lacked, the cigarettes denied them.

These rumors of permanent separation started up a whole crop of stories about her.

These people were not talking much about it, but you, a foreigner, sensed their apprehension and disappointment.

These gentlemen already have done the party harm by their seeming reluctance to vote aid for the depressed areas and by their criticism of Mr. Kennedy for talking about a recession and unemployment.

These seem about the only two ways in which the `` unhappy incident '' can now be closed.

These areas comprise about half of the total area of rodent infestation on the National Forests.

These are made on special order only, in Kodiak grade ( about $310 ), with integral muzzle brakes and heavy rubber recoil pads ; ;

These extrapolated fluxes are about an order of magnitude less than the values from the satellite data and the figures in Whipple's table.

These records, when systematically maintained, provide much information about the children, which the teacher can use in guidance, instruction, grouping, and reporting to parents.

These observations about Hardy's productivity tally with the details of his life as we know them.

These studies are being extended to different polymers to increase our knowledge about the hindrances to rotation around chain bonds.

These carts were of a type devised in Pembina in the days of Alexander Henry the Younger about a decade before the Selkirk colony was begun.

These men -- for the most part educated in our `` best '' New England colleges, well established financially and socially in the community -- under kindly but insistent probing, reveal little or no objective or explicit criteria or data for their generalizations about the interests and attitudes of the people they claim to serve, or about the public responses that actually follow their occasional breach of a `` client-service relationship ''.

These scripts are thought to derive from the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet ( dated to about 1500 BC ), which is thought to derive from Egyptian hieroglyphs.

These three personages are often difficult to tell apart, and even the ancient mythographers appear to have been perplexed about which Aeolus was which.

These typically have a mean diameter of about 0. 7 micrometers.

These have not been worked since about 1875.

These openings all exemplify Nimzowitsch's ideas about controlling the center with pieces instead of pawns.

These have been dated to about 77, 000 years ago, during the Middle Stone Age.

These cattle have a muscle yield of about 20 % more on average than cattle without the genetic myostatin mutation.

These negotiations were complicated by the sudden death of Lord George on 21 September 1848, but Disraeli obtained a loan of £ 25, 000 ( equivalent to about £ as of ) from Lord George's brothers Lord Henry Bentinck and Lord Titchfield.

These are inherently more aerodynamic than upright versions, as the rider may lean back onto a support and operate pedals that are on about the same level as the seat.

These ended in disaster when Penda, the pagan king of Mercia, killed the newly Christian Edwin of Northumbria at the Battle of Hatfield Chase in about 632.

These need not be greater numerical losses-if one side is much more numerous than the other than pursuing a strategy based on attrition can work even if casualties on both sides are about equal.