Spinner of yarns

Usage examples of storyteller.

Then came the gracious Princess of Pleasure and her daughter Folly, leading her subjects - players of dice, cards and back-gammon, conjurers, bards, minstrels, storytellers, drunkards, bawds, balladmongers and pedlars with their trinkets in countless number, to be at length instruments of punishment to the damned fools.

Most of these Celts were related, and all had a role to play in their small society: the storyteller, the jokester, the warrior, the mother hen, the tippler, the magician, the singer, the cook.

Conan Doyle was a supreme storyteller and few other writers have so evocatively captured the language and times of Victorian London, with its gaslit streets and hansom cabs.

I was very young, my mother put me to bed with these stories, told in the harsh, old-fashioned French patois of her aunts, a sound that I associated with the stern-voiced chants of the Onondagan storytellers who used similar cautionary tales when they sought to persuade recalcitrant rebels to bend their will to that of the Confederacy.

Peking famous for its storytellers, acrobats and other street-performers.

American Employment Program, which in 1999 sponsored a presentation by storyteller Penny Gamble Williams, the tribal chief of the Chappaquiddick Indian Nation of the Wampanoag Indian Nation, relating tales passed down through the generations.

Miranda was especially excited when she found two very distinct petroglyphs where an ancient storyteller had once etched images of hunters and their quarry onto the surface of rocks.

It was one of the paradoxes of their relationship that he, the sometime ape, had been educated in the great myths of the world by Fletcher, while she, the professional storyteller, had only the sketchiest knowledge of the subject.

Storytellers use those techniques today, whether they are sitting around a campfire or in a Hollywood office.

Ron Shock, a forty-year-old from Amarillo, Texas, who had turned twenty-one in prison and run several businesses before becoming a full-time stand-up comedian, had a small-town drawl and a gift for hyperbole that made him an unrivaled storyteller.

When I realized that in the annals of our world, Tacit was a hero of epic proportions, going through the paces of an equally epic adventure that was the kind of thing balladeers, poets, and storytellers loved to tell to rapt audiences?

CHARACTERS APPENDIX Allmother, Meerclar, Creator of the Folk Bandyleg, Firsthome cat Bast-Imret, Boneguard Beetleswat, young Meeting Wall torn Bitefast, Clawguard Bite-then-Bark, Rauro, Dog-king of Eatbugs' story Blueback, a prince of the Folk Bobweave, a First-walker Brightnail, a prince of the Folk Brindlesides, Fritti Tailchaser's father Bristlejaw, Meeting Wall Master-singer Brushstalker, First-walker Thane Cleanwhisker, a prince of the Folk Clearsong, Tirya, Tailchaser's oldest sister Click, Master, a squirrel Climbfast, a prince of the Folk Cloudleaper, Cat-queen of Eatbugs' story Crushgrass, Clawguard chieftain Dandlegrass, Firsthome cat Dayhunter, companion of Fencewalker Dewtreader, Prince Sresla, Prince Consort to Queen Sunback Earnotch, Vastnir prisoner, storyteller Earpoint, Meeting Wall elder, delegate ?

But captains make the best storytellers of anyone, and Caxtonian captains are no exception.

One storyteller relates that a particularly aggressive member of the posse suddenly found himself dangerously close to the desperadoes and might have come within firing range of the crack shots.

Accounts from school and Storyteller assimilations had not prepared him for this.