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This night sees Sherwood playing host to comedians who also mix music with laughter, this week including guitar-assisted pasticheur Rob Deering and indie tale-teller Terry Saunders.
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I say, in a neutral voice, dropping to my knees and ignoring the tale-teller, who stands to my left, her arms folded across her chest.
petite on tour 2008
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I say, in a neutral voice, dropping to my knees and ignoring the tale-teller, who stands to my left, her arms folded across her chest.
moon 2008
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Here, however, the tale-teller allows the good brother to be slain by the two wicked brothers as he permitted the adulterous queens to escape the sword of Kamar al-Zaman.
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When he came up to the young man (saith the tale-teller) he dismounted also, and the two saluted each other after the goodliest fashion.
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Hakim himself overpowered and cut short the narrative of the tale-teller, while he caused to resound along the sands the solemn summons, which the muezzins thunder at morning from the minaret of every mosque.
The Talisman 2008
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What his wife mentioned of his being a tale-teller, as well as a musician, now occurred to me; and as you know I like tales of superstition, I begged to have a specimen of his talent as we went along.
Redgauntlet 2008
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The tale-teller introduces it to enhance the grandeur and majesty of Harun al-Rashid, and the vulgar would regard it as a right kingly diversion.
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Meanwhile, the party of Saracens regained their saddles, and continued their route, and the tale-teller, Hassan, resumed the thread of his narrative; but it was no longer to the same attentive audience.
The Talisman 2008
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This is an act of contrition in the tale-teller for romancing against the expressed warning of the
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