Celebrated in history

Usage examples of storied.

Pylaemenes led his Paphlagonians out of Enetian country, land where the wild mules breed: the men who held Cytorus and lived in range of Sesamus, building their storied halls along the Parthenius River, at Cromna, Aegialus and the highland fortress Erythini.

She thought of Glen Keith as she had seen it once, old and storied, and gray and grand, with ivy and roses clustering round its gray walls, and its waving trees casting inviting shadows.

During that time, Baghdad was arguably the greatest center of art, learning, and culture in the world and was ruled by storied caliphs such as Harun al-Rashid, famous for his role in the epic Thousand and One Nights.

When I looked round upon the storied monuments, the stately hatchments, the cold marble pomp with which grandeur mourned magnificently over departed pride, and turned to this poor widow, bowed down by age and sorrow at the altar of her God, and offering up the prayers and praises of a pious though a broken heart, I felt that this living monument of real grief was worth them all.

Start to the softened, tremulous bugle-blare Of that Caesarean Italian Across the storied fields of trampled grain, As to a Vercingetorix of old Gaul Blowing the rally against a Caesar's reign.

Naturally names that go back to the very dawn have greater storied content than modern names, most of which are merely convenient denotations packed with noise value.

Then she built herself a new Hotel, double storied, with a crystal chandelier in the dining-room and a magnificent bedroom suite on the second floor done out in maroon and gold.

He had opened another case and was taking out those storied off-world weapons, such as Zurzal himself wore, the sidearms which could either stun for capture or burn to a crisp an enemy.

We passed a big white two storied Monterey house that must have cost $70,000 and had a cut-out illuminated sign in front: Cairn Terriers.

Which of the marauding peoples from the island's storied history had built it was difficult for a lay person to say.

Vapala had been for so many years a storied place that the chance to see this proudest and wealthiest of the queendoms was something to look forward to.

Then there was the excitement of all the new things we might see in these rich, dark, storied mountains--giant salamanders and towering tulip trees and the famous jack-o-lantern mushroom, which glows at night with a greenish phosphorescent light called foxfire.

It stood two storied, verandaed and hideous, a blot upon the soil of picturesque Mexico.