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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.

    This week's new comedy 2011

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • 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.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • 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

  • This is an act of contrition in the tale-teller for romancing against the expressed warning of the

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

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