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They beat themselves up over both of those performances - "jobby" was midfielder John McGinn's description and no bard could have come up with a better description.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
Britain’s long war, meeting the Mets, a honky-tonk bard and more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026
Before Joseph Wambaugh came along, the unofficial bard of the Los Angeles Police Department was Jack Webb, whose unsmiling Sgt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025
Joshua Oppenheimer is our age’s great bard of cognitive dissonance.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2024
He signaled an order to the waiting bard, then bent to his own task.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
This renders Mr. Bacon’s subtitle inapt: “The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald” has been told and retold by authors and bards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025
The exploits of Sundiata Keita, a near-mythical figure in the Mande oral tradition, have been passed down by generations of bards.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
In the same way we accept that bar fights get more dangerous if someone decides to punch up Motörhead’s “Ace of Spades” on a jukebox, bards can cast spells in Dungeons & Dragons.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2023
It was that alchemy of poetry, vernacular speech and cosmic awareness that made him one of our great bards, on the same plane as Toni Morrison, James Baldwin and Amiri Baraka.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
“Your names are not unknown among the bards of the north.”
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
You’ll note that they’re using both normal cassowaries as well as a twin-mounted fully barded champron-equipped Maximum cassowary with criniere and boiled leather peytral.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 1, 2014
His steel was a deep cobalt, even the blunt momingstar he wielded with such deadly effect, his mount barded in the quartered sun-and-moon heraldry of House Tarth.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
The horse was barded in bronze- colored trappings dyed to match the rider's cloak and emblazoned with the burning tree.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
He rode a coal-black horse barded all in white, with the pure white shield of the Kingsguard strapped to his arm.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
In a suit of engraved Milanese Armour inlaid with gold, on a barded charger.
From Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign by John Ashton
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