bard
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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
Jefferson rightly saw himself as the bard of the first stages of our experiment with self-rule.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 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
“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
With their swords Taran and the bard cut stout branches, while Eilonwy and Gurgi stripped vines from the tree trunks.
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
It's home to the Academy, which trains everyone from bards to scholars to advisors to kings and queens.
From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2022
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
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
Their light-armed archers far and near Surveyed the tangled ground, Their center ranks, with pike and spear, A twilight forest frowned, Their barded horsemen, in the rear, 405 The stern battalia crowned.
From Lady of the Lake by William Vaughn Moody
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