legendaries

The seven sleepers doubtless could neither be deceived nor deceivers, so that it is not to dispute this history that we speak of it, but merely to remark that there is not a single fabulous event of antiquity which has not been rectified by ancient legendaries.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

In a way the freedom of comment reminded me a little of the Roman triumphs, when the excellent legendaries recited in verse and prose, anything they chose concerning the hero in whose deeds they had shared and whose triumphs they were celebrating.

What He Saw in Porto Rico 1919

In a way the freedom of comment reminded me a little of the Roman triumphs, when the excellent legendaries recited in verse and prose, anything they chose concerning the hero in whose deeds they had shared and whose triumphs they were celebrating.

Letters to His Children Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1919

For the rest, a similar legend of the "blood-stained corporal" is quite frequent in the legendaries of even earlier date than the fourteenth century, and coincides with the great Eucharistic polemics of the ninth to the twelfth centuries.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

Beginning with the thirteenth century, collections of a more convenient size begin to appear, containing the matter of the legendaries in a condensed form.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

The legendaries are usually made up of biographies and Passions of relatively great length.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

The Preachers led the way in the composition of comprehensive collections of the lives of the saints or legendaries, writings at once for the use and edification of the faithful.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

Stolberg, Görres, Friedrich Schlegel, Lamennais, and Joseph de Maistre, and illustrates his topic at every turn from mediaeval chronicles, legendaries, romances, and manuals of chivalry; from the lives of

A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886

Besides their arms, which the legendaries scarcely considered as an encumbrance, they were laden with their kitchen furniture, the instruments of fortification, and the provision of many days.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Edward Gibbon 1765

The recent legendaries record whole armies and cities, which were at once swept away by the undistinguishing rage of persecution.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765