teller of tales
Example Sentences
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“I became the one who would be like the ancient mariner, the teller of tales to anyone who would listen,” Richard wrote in “Of Time and Place.”
From Washington Times • May 23, 2020
Walter Benjamin, in his essay “The Storyteller,” famously argued that the teller of tales derives her authority from proximity to, a kind of friendliness with, death.
From Slate • Jul. 11, 2018
The music is calm but menacing, and Ka’s flow is unhurried; he’s less a rapper than a hardboiled raconteur, a teller of tales that require no flashiness or ornamentation.
From Slate • Dec. 26, 2012
This is the book that contains all other books; and its frame story, the tale of the teller of tales Scheherazade, is one of the great accounts of heroism in all of literature.
From The Guardian • Mar. 4, 2011
A teller of tales if there ever was one, the second mate could soak up a story and wring it out later word for word, and he was always happy to oblige.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
