tales
ta·les (tā′lēz′)
- people summoned to fill jury vacancies when the regular panel has become deficient in number, as by challenge
- the writ that summons them
Etymology: ME < ML tales (de circumstantibus), such (of those standing about), phr. in writ summoning them < L, pl. of talis, such: see that
For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, We Poets of the proud old lineage Who sing to find your hearts, we know not whyö What shall we tell you? Tales, marvellous tales Of ships and stars and isles where good men rest.
Thou art not, Penshurst, built to envious show Of touch or marble, nor canst boast a row Of polished pillars, or a roof of gold; Thou hast no lantern whereof tales are told, Or stair, or courts; but standst an ancient pile, And these grudged at, art reverenced the while.
And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.
Browse dictionary entries near tales
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