bard

I once had a news director who, in the midst of marital issues, carried a guitar from cubicle to cubicle like the world’s saddest bard.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

The bard of Idaho, where he was raised but no longer lives, Hunter is keenly aware that no one exists in a psychological vacuum.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

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

‘The life of a bard revealed,’ and all that.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

The performer of epic poetry was a rhapsoidos, a song-weaver, and this apt metaphor positions Ms. Hall in the lineage of ancient bards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

Wilson found his vocation as a street poet with a group of neighborhood bards known as the Centre Avenue Poets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2023

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

Perhaps he was just some common man who wanted bards to sing of him.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

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

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

Compare to the car drawn by four white bulls, the gallant bay charger barded with steel, and caparisoned with cloth of gold.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various