Tales

(n.) Persons added to a jury, commonly from those in or about the courthouse, to make up any deficiency in the number of jurors regularly summoned, being like, or such as, the latter.

(syntactically sing.) The writ by which such persons are summoned.

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• I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which would disgust you with human nature. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• I wonder whether he has been trying any of his traveller's tales on us? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Of what tales are you speaking? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• When I was a very little girl, Mr. Moore, my nurse used to tell me tales of fairies being seen in that Hollow. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures into a series of tales. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• There you are right, he replied; but if any one asks where are such models to be found and of what tales are you speaking--how shall we answer him? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Such tales may possibly have a mystical interpretation, but the young are incapable of understanding allegory. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• I took a book--some Arabian tales; I sat down and endeavoured to read. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• We're not going to hear any of those tales. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• And here are Crabbe's Tales, and the Idler, at hand to relieve you, if you tire of your great book. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• The sceptic will object,—Fairy tales! 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• She didn't like dolls, fairy tales were childish, and one couldn't draw all the time. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• I never thought it would go where it could tell tales, said Jo, tearing up the verses the Professor had treasured so long. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• But, like the Kings and Queens in the Fairy Tales, I suppose you have wished for one? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• But he was ambitious, and when he was sixteen, a friend having brought him glowing tales of the great cotton-mills in the fast-growing city of Lowell, he decided to seek his fortune there. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Luckily there is no distinction of dress nowadays to tell tales, but--but--but Yours affectionately. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• These two young couples had plenty of tales to relate to each other. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I don't tell tales, replied Laurie, with his 'high and mighty' air, as Jo called a certain expression which he occasionally wore. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• You believed rather the tales you heard of our poltroonery and impotence of body and mind. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Mr. Hale had his own acquaintances among the working men, and was depressed with their earnestly told tales of suffering and long-endurance. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Don't tell me tales. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• He made a collection of old German songs and tales, but these were destroyed by his successor Louis the Pious on account of their paganism. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It is these tales which have caused that reserve in your manner towards Graham which your father noticed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Though she is just the sort of beautiful creature that is imprisoned with ogres in fairy tales. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Well, my dear doubter, how do you know that fairy tales do not contain a germ of truth? 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Such tales as that will never tempt my tongue. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Such tales may have their use; but they are not the proper food for soldiers. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• But honourable lads will not tell tales upon a lady. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Being seated, he takes from his satchel a book--not the Latin grammar, but a contraband volume of fairy tales. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I didn't mean to preach or tell tales or be silly. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.

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