ballad-makers

In The Winter's Tale 5.2.25, the Second Gentleman observes: 'Such a deal of wonder is broken out within this hour that ballad-makers cannot be able to express it.'

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In The Winter's Tale 5.2.25, the Second Gentleman observes: 'Such a deal of wonder is broken out within this hour that ballad-makers cannot be able to express it.'

On "can be able to" DC 2008

There abides not even the shadow of a name of the old Scotch song-smiths, of the old ballad-makers.

Letters to Dead Authors 2006

This peace is nothing, but to rust iron, increase tailors, and breed ballad-makers.

The Tragedy of Coriolanus 2004

It would grow cold if Tamas should die, that was the stupid kind of thing the ballad-makers said; but he had seen so much of magic in this place he was not so sure it was all stupid.

The Goblin Mirror Cherryh, C. J. 1992

It would grow cold if Tamas should die, that was the stupid kind of thing the ballad-makers said; but he had seen so much of magic in this place he was not so sure it was all stupid.

The Goblin Mirror Cherryh, C. J. 1992

There'll be no scandal, no aspersions cast on either Hyde or Shrewsbury, no legatine muck-raking, no ballad-makers running off dirty rhymes about monks and their women, and hawking them round the markets, no bishops bearing down on us with damning visitations, no carping white monks fulminating about the laxity and lechery of the Benedictines … And no foul blight clinging round that poor girl's name and blackening her for life.

An Excellent Mystery Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1985

There'll be no scandal, no aspersions cast on either Hyde or Shrewsbury, no legatine muck-raking, no ballad-makers running off dirty rhymes about monks and their women, and hawking them round the markets, no bishops bearing down on us with damning visitations, no carping white monks fulminating about the laxity and lechery of the Benedictines ...

An Excellent Mystery Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1985

The ballad-makers had promised themselves and me a thousand years of singing.

The Bull From The Sea Renault, Mary 1962

In order to reach woman's ear, modern writers must adopt a different course, and it is curious to contrast their utterances with those of the ballad-makers.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science Various