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The popular predilection for surpassing marvels had already shown itself in its chivalrous romaunts.

From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by Black, John

But of the telling of tales in that land there is little skill, neither do men rightly understand the singing of ballads and romaunts.

From The Blue Flower by Van Dyke, Henry

Then there are the minstrels, with their romaunts and ballads, which place all a man's praise in receiving and repaying hard blows.

From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Scott, Walter, Sir

Yonder man is more like the giants in romaunts than a man of mould like ourselves; and yet Christians might take an example from him for his lealty.

From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Scott, Walter, Sir

Here also he had profited by Miss Barrett's study of ballads and romaunts in her own and other tongues.

From The Raven by Poe, Edgar Allan