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In the words of Damon Runyon, the bard of gambling lowlifes, “Mr. Bert Bell does not get out of bed in time for daylight games.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

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

“Deliver Me From Nowhere” doesn’t try to tell the entire life story of New Jersey’s beloved rock bard, Bruce “The Boss” Springsteen — in fact, it doesn’t even really cover his biggest hits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2025

The bard leaped up and splashed across to greet the companions.

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

Oh, SZA — just to add to the bards.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 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

“The bards shall sing of our deeds—and of his.”

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

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

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

Their gallant steeds, barded and richly caparisoned, held by their esquires, stood neighing and pawing at the foot of the steps leading from the oaken doors.

From The Days of Bruce Vol 1 A Story from Scottish History by Grace Aguilar