Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A popular legend.
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Examples
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They were sisters, one all simplicity, her mind shaped by folk-song and folk-story; the other sophisticated, lyrical and subtle.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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They were sisters, one all simplicity, her mind shaped by folk-song and folk-story; the other sophisticated, lyrical and subtle.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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They were sisters, one all simplicity, her mind shaped by folk-song and folk-story; the other sophisticated, lyrical and subtle.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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They were famous people and there are many like stories; and even a horrible folk-story, the invention of some Connacht peasant, that tells how Sir William Wilde took out the eyes of some man, who had come to consult him as an oculist, and laid them upon a plate, intending to replace them in a moment, and how the eyes were eaten by a cat.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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They were famous people and there are many like stories; and even a horrible folk-story, the invention of some Connacht peasant, that tells how Sir William Wilde took out the eyes of some man, who had come to consult him as an oculist, and laid them upon a plate, intending to replace them in a moment, and how the eyes were eaten by a cat.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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They were famous people and there are many like stories; and even a horrible folk-story, the invention of some Connacht peasant, that tells how Sir William Wilde took out the eyes of some man, who had come to consult him as an oculist, and laid them upon a plate, intending to replace them in a moment, and how the eyes were eaten by a cat.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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They were famous people and there are many like stories; and even a horrible folk-story, the invention of some Connacht peasant, that tells how Sir William Wilde took out the eyes of some man, who had come to consult him as an oculist, and laid them upon a plate, intending to replace them in a moment, and how the eyes were eaten by a cat.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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They were sisters, one all simplicity, her mind shaped by folk-song and folk-story; the other sophisticated, lyrical and subtle.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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They were sisters, one all simplicity, her mind shaped by folk-song and folk-story; the other sophisticated, lyrical and subtle.
Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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They were famous people and there are many like stories; and even a horrible folk-story, the invention of some Connacht peasant, that tells how Sir William Wilde took out the eyes of some man, who had come to consult him as an oculist, and laid them upon a plate, intending to replace them in a moment, and how the eyes were eaten by a cat.
Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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