balladist
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This balladist of the Middle West, whose books sell millions of copies, is as representative of the great sentimentality of America, as the Ford car is of our thrift.
From Time Magazine Archive
The picture drawn by the balladist is graphic in the extreme.
From Border Raids and Reivers by Robert Borland
Mrs. Dora Sigerson Shorter is a balladist of stark power, and Miss Eva Gore-Booth a lyric poet whose natural lilt no preoccupation with mysticism can for more than a moment obscure.
From Irish Plays and Playwrights by Cornelius Weygandt
Her ambition was whetted for an exercise of actual power, and the outcome was the famous battle of Beverwyck, whose story still lacks its balladist.
From The Henchman by Mark Lee Luther
So that here at least we have a vague echo of the name of a balladist and of a ballad-air composer.
From The Balladists Famous Scots Series by John Geddie
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