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Just as the fairy tale finished, the child had already fallen asleep.
It was like a fairy tale.
The tale is familiar to us.
The little girl was absorbed in reading a fairy tale.
The author translated the fairy tale into our mother tongue.
This fairy tale is easy enough for a seven-year-old child to read.
Did you write this fairy tale by yourself?
His book begins with a tale of country life.
She tells her tale of misery to everyone she meets.
It is a very sad tale.
What's your favorite fairy tale?
That's an old tale.
If you want, it doesn't have to be a fairy tale.
Many's the time my mates were so yarn-hungry they had me falling asleep in the middle of a tale, halfway through a sentence, between syllables.
Don't believe that. It's all a fairy tale.
That's just an old wives' tale.
Ms. Yamada translated the fascinating fairy tale into plain Japanese.
It's just a tale.
It reads like a fairy tale.
This is my favorite fairy tale.
That's an old wives' tale.
It seemed like a fairy tale.
He seemed like some sort of prince from a fairy tale.
Movie subtitles
His hands are a tell-tale sign, okay?
Like something out of a fairy tale.
All across the country. I'm a historian, telling the true tale of this great land as her iconic birthday fast approaches.
A TALE of the modern re-appearance of an 11th Century Myth involting the strange and mysterious influence of a mountebank monk over a somnambulist.
Thus ends the tale.
Thus ends the tale of Siegfried.
Racing through the forest, they no longer notice the fairy tale beauty of the snow-covered firs.
Maybe he told us a fairy tale.
Tony's sometimes such a tell-tale.
And yet you have written a tale that sent my blood into icy creeps.
She had a sad tale of woe regarding her condition.
They asked other questions, many more throughout the years. but my lips remained sealed. until eventually ourjourney became a footnote. a bizarre, unresolved tale.
Still harping on that old wives' tale of yours?
Would it were an old wives' tale.
Here's your tale. You're very talented!
Hey, maybe he fed us a fairy tale.
And CH Hinton wrote a tale of invisibility titled Stella in 1895.
A Tale of a Hapless Mercenary Khmyr, His Horse-Wife Anna, His Well-Fed Neighbor Foka, and Also of a Priest, a Nun and Other Old Relics.
What else can I think after a tale like that?
A gentle fairy tale softly whispers in me of you. of you!
Yours spun me quite a tale.
So you're inventing this tall tale.
Esteban, that young Vega just told me a horrible tale about a madman in Madrid, like this Zorro.
Look, if you'll fall off the roadwork, I'll read you a new fairy tale.
And that fairy tale to send Ilsa away with him.
I'm a historian, telling the true tale of this great land as her iconic birthday fast approaches.
Stop moping and sing me a naniwabushi tale.
MISS SUSAN, I AM INDEED SURPRISED YOU SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT SUCH AN AMAZING INDELICATE TALE FROM THE LIBRARY.
I pulled the old umbrella and I'm lucky enough to be alive to tell the tale.
That fairy tale you invented to send Ilsa away with him.
Like my tale!
I don't know why. but I feel like the time I spent with Kyoji was an old fairy tale.
A fairy tale?
A fairy tale for grown-ups?
I wasn't satisfied with this girl's tale.
News and current affairs
After all, the history of missile defense is a tale of technology constantly disappointing its advocates in and out of government.
So, in this tale of two South American neighbors, unfortunately, little will change - unless, as so often happens, the unexpected suddenly becomes inevitable, in which case all bets are off.
The moral of the tale is simple: Austerity in a slump does not work, for the reason that the medieval cure of bleeding a patient never worked: it enfeebles instead of strengthening.
A German children's fairy tale - a Schlaraffenland?
A fairy tale indeed.
Many Europeans still seem to believe that economics is a fairy tale, that you can legislate your wishes.
Consider a tale that has made the covers of some of the world's biggest magazines and newspapers: the plight of the polar bear.
The twist in this tale is that only half of the owners were correctly informed.
Then there is the tell-tale emergence and disappearance of protest parties like the Dutch groups gathered by the murdered Pim Fortuyn.
The tale they tell is one of the failure of democratic institutions as they now stand.
The tell-tale phrases are on everyone's lips: talk of the need for anti-subversion laws, press controls, strong leadership, of adjusting to Hong Kong's new reality.
In recent research I conducted with Gylfi Zoega, we hypothesised that such shifts in expectations, and thus in future economic expansion, can be detected in advance from tell-tale shifts in the stock markets.
In part, this is a classic insider-outsider tale.
Parents can tell many a tale about how, with the beginning of school, their children's playful approach suddenly changes, as they must now focus on objects dictated by the curriculum.
To the European politician strongly opposed to migration, I suggest that the next time you need hospital treatment, take a look around you: many of the people caring for you have a migrant's tale.
So it is, at least in part, a cautionary tale about the rise of fascism in Europe.
Thus, people saw the Greek crisis not just as a metaphor, but also as a morality tale.
Take the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood.
You can read the fairy tale as an allegory and attribute different morals to the events and characters, but you cannot transform Little Red Riding Hood into Cinderella.
To them the world was made in six days; evolution is a fanciful tale.