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Sentence Examples All down the river we had the expertise and river lore of a remarkable lock-keeper, John O'Neill. Collectors have documented children's lore for centuries, often to record what they considered a dying culture. My favourite part in their books is the lore on rare books, how to identify a First Ed and what classic Modern Firsts are priced at. Those innings are now part of the glorious baseball lore of New York and Florida. I've always been fascinated by Japanese mermaid lore, which is very different from our mermaid stories. It is largely secondary knowledge and includes much herbal lore as well as superstition. A group called the Knights Templars had secretly gathered information, ancient lore and archaic texts. Body painting, traditional dance and spoken lore are all virtually impossible to safeguard. I even read the Norse sagas and Icelandic literature and I love Celtic lore. Tribal lore has it that Oneida runners were sent ahead to scout prospective relocation sites. But it's richly salted with fascinating cultural lore, and an engaging read whether you're a carrot-top or not. I think these are important questions because under some religious lore this is completely and utterly heretical. It is her thesis that theory and practice are linked in classical Chinese medicine by the archive of accumulated medical lore. As belief in magick grew great and strong, its followers became more secretive and strict about the lore and beliefs of these mystical ways. Folklore, biblical tradition, Egyptology, African history, and lore combine to inform her creative voice. According to sacred lore, most of Bhutan's gods were subdued by early Buddhist saints. She broke the walls of His study, setting every ill-omened text of unclean lore alight. When he was 6 years old, a school chum told him that old Indian lore claimed that if you eat poison ivy leaves you'll never be allergic to it. You've probably heard about that bit of lore where a werewolf can only be killed by a silver bullet. He produced title pages and book illustrations for humanist texts, and antique imagery and classical lore pervade his early work. Show More Sentences Local lore has it that the fish were once so plentiful that it was possible to skewer them with hay forks. It is just that such lore is so undependable that it is not in the forefront of their minds. Political lore used to say that the Nats had the most members, followed by Labor then the Libs. The Romans derived a considerable portion of their star lore and uranography from the Greeks. Most of the abundant new information comes from deposits of family letters and family lore that Alexander alone has enterprisingly explored. This time they look not to Judeo-Christian lore, but to Nietzsche and existentialism. Much information from this book has been summarised by Anna Chaudhri, who also introduced similar elements from Ossetian hunting lore. They mentioned that under some religious lore, such an act was considered heretical. As ever with legend, the lore of the wise-woman presents itself in the guise of history and truth. His gutsy ten-inning pitching performance in that deciding game still stands out in Phillies' lore. I imagined him to be a tweedy 40-year-old, steeped in Africana lore and smelling of cigar smoke. The walk will be led by experienced guides who will give a talk on the history and folk lore of the areas. Not surprisingly it has become the centre piece of a whole branch of Karakalpak culture and folk lore. He thought that traditional lore provided them with most of what they would ever need to know. In the realm of sea lore, fact or fiction, stories of sea serpents have long held a special place. In Wallachian lore, a person who died unexpectedly was highly suspect of becoming a vampire. Packed with wisdom, vernacular language, and family lore, Redemption Song is a story about the curative power of love. She spent mornings there, according to local lore, reviewing proofs of her work. These leaders used the wisdom they found during this meeting to begin the tradition of Indian lore at camps. They have had the kind of season that is so rare it will go down in the annals of baseball lore. Show More Sentences He considers attitudes to antiquity and to change in general terms, and looks at perceptions of old traditions and proverbial lore. Being of Abnaki background himself, Perkins wanted to immerse himself in the forest lore. An exhibit of jackalopes and their lore is on display at the Wichita Art Museum. He was an Eagle Scout then and taught me the lore of scouting with both patience and understanding. Yet whenever the reader begins to tire of historical minutiae, the author throws in charming tidbits of bibliophilic lore. His four books, which ranged over local lore, geology and topography, became standard reading for lovers of the Lake District. The walk will include a talk on the history, legends and folk lore of the area. Longshoremen rank with teamsters in the lore of hard-nosed trade unionists and Hobsbawm preferred their leader's politics. This summer, we moved our musician son to Clarksdale, a small town in the north Mississippi Delta, famous for its blues lore. We owe it to the younger generation to pass on the vast lore, knowledge and expertise and let them know the heritage of the county. Looming downstage is the Seneca, carrying a full cargo of lore, from search-and-rescue adventures to drug and migrant interdictions. To further add to the jetty's lore a fire broke out in December 1999, destroying a massive 80m section, about 150m from the seaward end. He has had a front-row seat for the biggest events in modern New York baseball lore. Certain parts of the History section are outdated and may therefore conflict with other pieces of lore or stories. This lore was passed on by my mother who had spent many of her childhood holidays on the same beaches, as had her mother before. The folk healers' knowledge of natural resources and lore is an ancient cultural heritage. The lore holds that elephants can get drunk by eating the fermented fruit rotting on the ground. Attanasio mixes Arthurian lore with Norse gods, modern physics and sundry faerie creatures in this literary, passionate novel. This anthology pairs contemporary stories with folk tales, many of which interpret natural phenomena in the light of local knowledge and lore. Speedway lore dates the races to early last century, when black stable hands who worked for wealthy equestrians would bring their mounts here for a little weekend racing. Show More Sentences The treatment of faithless lovers and traitorous informers in outlaw lore suggests that not all Irish images of themselves were entirely positive. Elflocks, according to fairy lore, would be considered the mischievous work of fairies which may be matted with mud and twisted to appear much like a traditional dreadlock. This relationship implies ownership and custodianship of physical sites, of lore, and of cultural artifacts including music, dance, story, and design. The life of the club owner was something Leonard left behind, the noise and violence drifting into lore. The manuscripts are the source for all the major texts of Old and Middle Irish literature, such as sagas, dinnshenchas, genealogies, law tracts, and much other lore. It has been the subject of lore and the object of cravings for centuries. Romanians have a variety of traditions and lore dating back to antiquity. The book's mix of code-breaking, art history, religion and mystical lore has helped it sell 25 million copies since it was published two years ago. The rich fairy lore of Ireland is the subject of many oral legends. Native Indians from the Dogrib First Nations community in Canada were demonstrating their ancient lore and traditions in Stromness on Saturday afternoon. And yet that just contributed to the local lore of the state as a repository for rugged Americana. Family lore recalls the time Nathan picked up a shoplifter and threw him out the door. According to political lore, patriot-Americans do the backbreaking work that keeps the country humming. In dramatic lore their names are Death, Destruction, pestilence, and Famine. Once they're gone, information about your ancestry along with interesting family lore is also gone forever unless the knowledge has been passed on to the next generation. Whoever was the coiner, the word was popularized by the Star Wars and Star Trek series of films and television shows and now is part of Hollywood linguistic lore. He will forever be a part of baseball lore because of his 11th inning walk-off shot, giving the Yankees a 6-5 win in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series. Due to my brief foray into the lore of the Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic worlds, I was aware of the nature of a wicker man before I saw this film. And the not-so-subtle winks to Batman lore will be enough to satiate hungry fanboys for now. According to lore, 145 of these original soldiers of fortune either fled battle or were captured and settled in the area. Show More Sentences Basically, a large part of the UFO lore is subjective and many alleged UFO events are actually the products of a complex hallucinatory process, particularly in the contactee. Manners for wedding etiquette, remember, it's mostly just folk lore. But they respect the lore and the possibility of them enough to reroute highways, you know, just in case. According to family lore, the Distlers owned a goldmine on Sakhalin Island. We bagged a limit of trout lore, plus a kreel full of fishin' tips, and flitted over to the Travel Kiosk to learn how to pack for our trip. Family lore said that the Cabrais were descendants of Caranus, the legendary first king of Macedonia. This excrescency is hardly a denouement in the African personality of centered African lore, but its inglorious bastardization. Inspiration is found in the root and herb lore of the Khoikhoi, the Cape's first inhabitants and master foragers of the coastal shrubland fynbos. In literary-cultural terms, Naranappa's function in Samskara is comparable to the role played by the asuras in epic and Puranic lore. It's all gloriously silly stuff as po-faced vampire lore collides with the mundanities of the modern world. While I'm not convinced about the world of cryptozoology, if any creature of lore is going to prove to be real, I'm rooting for Bigfoot. Angling lore avers that ghillies in Scotland prefer to wade for salmon in bare legs, presumably as a natural extension of the kilt. The author has collected a treasury of facts and lore about horses. Some students of Arthurian lore identify the Lake District with the Grail kingdom of Listeneise. It was discovered in time with eight conspirators executed, including Guy Fawkes, who became the iconic evil traitor in English lore. The history of Geoffrey forms the basis for much British lore and literature as well as being a rich source of material for Welsh bards. In Oxford lore, Bacon is credited as the namesake of Folly Bridge for having gotten himself placed under house arrest nearby. In 1978, Paleontologist Leigh Van Valen named over 20 taxa of extinct mammals after Tolkien lore in a single paper. He then worked briefly as a labourer for Highgate Cemetery, which became another part of his biographical lore. According to popular lore, clan badges were used by Scottish clans as a form of identification in battle. Show More Sentences Folklore also includes customary lore, the forms and rituals of celebrations such as Christmas and weddings, folk dances and initiation rites. The second half of the compound word, lore, proves easier to define as its meaning has stayed relatively stable over the last two centuries. Performance is frequently tied to verbal and customary lore, whereas context is used in discussions of material lore. Customs and the lore of children and games also fit easily into the language of a folklore performance. They are named individuals, usually well known in the community as knowledgeable in their traditional lore. In verbal lore, the performer will start and end with recognized linguistic formulas. Joking as an active form of verbal lore makes this tension visible as joke cycles come and go to reflect new issues of concern. Buddhist lore in Sri Lanka claims that this flower was one of the 108 auspicious signs found on Prince Siddhartha's footprint. According to Caesar, many young men were trained to be druids, during which time they had to learn all the associated lore by heart. Hung above the bed at night, in Native American lore, a dreamcatcher snags bad dreams before they enter your head. Hogan and Patrick O'Neill and a book on Fingal lore entitled Fair Fingall by Patrick Archer. In popular lore, Feynman often comes off as the wild man of physics, throwing out one crazy idea after another in a frenzied search for truth. Despite possible lore among graduate students to the contrary, most faculty members dread having to fail a student in the qualifyings. But I beseech thee, wise Doxodox! instruct me in thy dialectics, that I may embrace thy more recondite lore. The soil here is red due to haematite, and climbing lore suggests that magnetic compasses cannot be trusted in this locality. Here Libby experiences all the messiness of whanau, traditional lore, landscape and healing practices. This was when tailfins made an appearance, enjoyed their time under the sun and then disappeared into motoring lore. Collingwood was particularly interested in Norse lore and the Norsemen, and he wrote a novel, Thorstein of the Mere which was a major influence on Arthur Ransome. Hilbre Island may already have been a hermitage before the Norman invasion or at least a place of pilgrimage based around the lore of St Hildeburgh. Just by looking at the development of one type of verbal lore, electronic joking, it is clear that the internet is modifying folkloric process, not killing it. Show More Sentences Below is listed a small sampling of types and examples of verbal lore. Here the ideas of electricity are woven with alchemical lore in a presentation that surveys the ether to ideas of space travel, film, and even computers. According to Rabbinic lore, the original lagoos was changed because Ptolemy's father was called Lagos, and the word would be disrespectful of the Lagids. Numerous satirical versions have long circulated in children's lore. Traditional songs such as Green grow the rushes, O present religious lore in a mnemonic form, as do Western Christmas carols and similar traditional songs. In his 1846 published call for help in documenting antiquities, Thoms was echoing scholars from across the European continent to collect artifacts of verbal lore. Verbal lore is not just any conversation, but words and phrases conforming to a traditional configuration recognized by both the speaker and the audience. It appears most probable that it was at Merfyn's court that all the lore of the north was collected and written down during his reign and that of his son. Local lore claims that the custom began when two ladies of Hallaton were saved from a raging bull by a startled hare, distracting the bull from its charge. As Saxo's texts are the first written accounts of Denmark's history, and hence the Danes, his sources are largely surviving legends, folk lore and word of mouth. Barbers are the priests of hair lore, so you may listen to what they've learned from any confessionals, but don't automatically take their word as correct. This is the architect of the Temple, Hiram Abiff of Masonic lore. Simmons, a ruling elder throughout the 1870s, was appointed Grand Pursuivant within the Grand Lodge, in charge of instructing members in the lore and practice of Freemasonry. Druidic lore consisted of a large number of verses learned by heart, and Caesar remarked that it could take up to twenty years to complete the course of study. As Lore opened her mouth once again to ask, a chime in the background interrupted her. Lore could hear the scrape of his fingernail against his tooth, and her skin crawled. Lore has not yet explicitly told his family, for fear of disownment. Dr Lore Hartzenberg's testimony ahead of Pistorius' sentencing for culpable homicide was almost immediately characterised by the prosecution as unbalanced. Examples from Classical Literature He mastered the whole system of decretal lore and made it his guide for the rest of his life. But we must not be too far led away by the legendary lore, much less the poetry connected with the whitethorn. Verily he opened his mouth to the evangelic lore, who in the old law was wont to open the mouths of the prophets. Herb lore and folk medicine lag not years, but centuries, behind the knowledge of their own day. He taught Sigurd the art of working in metals and he taught him, too, the lore of other days. Perhaps I may be able to give you some help in this quest, being myself an adept in Love's lore. Such lore had given her mind a sombre hue, and inclined her to indulge in the practice of vaticination. I know the beech and the maple, and some kinds of oak, but there my wood lore ends. Beginners in this lore would do well to get a thorough knowledge of campcraft by going about it one step at a time. He knew more than most generals, and he was filled with the lore of the woods. And is it your opinion that there is a lore and science of Right and Justice just as there is of letters and grammar? The dalesman you meet on the highway can tell you all the lore of his parish, giving dates and citing illustrative lays. Many are able to read their native tongue, but all their traditions and all their lore is that of other lands and literatures. For more than an hour Kennedy delved into the archeological lore in the library. The ancient bardic lore and primaeval traditions were refined to suit the new and sensitive poetic taste. As the valour of the warrior and the song of the scald, so is the lore of the prophetess. He is a divine legislator, cunning in runic lore, and the creator of mankind. Skilled in deep-sea lore as he was, he knew the dark fury which had swooped down upon the devilfish. Thus the old ape imparted to the son of Tarzan the boy's first lesson in jungle lore. It is out of the lore and experience of the ancients and of all those who have studied the powers of the UnDead. Show More Sentences They know not half the grand euphonious ologies, Which crown the polished lore of certain colleges. We touch here on kabbalistic lore relating to the origin of evil. Blending Arthurian legend and Celtic lore, Wolfe twists elements of the two into a refreshing fantasy. The woodland and sedgy lore in it is discreet and attractive. The guests found her sweet and unassuming, laughing, vivacious and a never exhausted storehouse of quaint and interesting jungle lore. The master of Westover was a treasure house of sprightly lore. And yet meseems I live and learn And lore of younglings yet must earn. The library of Ramsey was also remarkably rich in patristic lore. She finish'd, and the suttle Fiend his lore Soon learnd, now milder, and thus answerd smooth. The novel mingles elements of ancient lore, folk medicine, magic and 1960s bohemianism. And then, amid his lore of wretchedness he hid his face and wept. It is really too bad that they don't exist as objective, bonafide compilations of the elder and darker Lore! Lore and facts about these animals are dispersed in many books not classifiable under natural history. The daughter was just leaving the house to attend the meeting of a branch Folk Lore Society, and regretted that she could not accompany them. Hermann had heard a great deal about the beautiful Lore, and had finally fallen very deeply in love with her without having seen her. It seems to be a case where the hire and Lore classes come in conflict. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of lore? Words that rhyme with lore What is the plural of lore? What is the adjective for lore? What is the noun for lore? Translations for lore Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words lordy lordships lordship Lord's Lords lords Lore loreal l'oreal lorelei Lorelei Loren 4-letter Words Starting With l lo lor