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chronicles

n. (plural of chronicle English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: chronicle)

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Chronicles

Chronicles may refer to:

  • Books of Chronicles, in the Bible
  • Chronicle: chronological histories, like those in :Category:Chronicles
  • Holinshed's Chronicles, the collected works of Raphael Holinshed
  • Book of Chronicles, an alternate name for the Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493
  • Chronicles: Volume One, Bob Dylan's autobiography
  • Chronicles (magazine), a conservative magazine from the Rockford Institute
  • Chronicles (Magic: The Gathering), an expansion set of the Magic: The Gathering trading card game
Chronicles (Rush album)

Chronicles is a double compilation album by Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1990 (see 1990 in music). The collection was assembled without the participation of the band. A companion edition of Rush music videos from 1981-1987, titled Chronicles: The Video Collection, was also released on VHS and laserdisc. This edition was re-released on a single DVD in 2001. This was the band's first album to be released in the 1990s.

Chronicles (Magic: The Gathering)

Chronicles was the twelfth Magic: The Gathering set, and the first compilation set, released in July 1995 by Wizards of the Coast. The set is one of two sets that have been sold in twelve-card booster packs, the other having been Alliances.

Chronicles (David Arkenstone album)

Chronicles, released in 1993, is the first of David Arkenstone's several compilation albums.

Chronicles (video)

Chronicles is a compilation of music videos by Canadian rock band Rush, from 1977 to 1987. It was originally released in 1990 on VHS. A compilation album on CD and cassette of similar material was released at the same time.

The Chronicles video release was later issued on DVD. Absent from this collection are the following videos: Fly By Night, Vital Signs, Countdown and The Body Electric. Plus a studio recording of Tom Sawyer (similar to Limelight) replaces the Exit...Stage Left version.

Chronicles (disambiguation)
Chronicles (Steve Winwood album)

Chronicles is the first compilation album by Steve Winwood as a solo artist. The album contains some of his major hits and several remixes up to this point. One track, " Valerie", was originally released as a single for Winwood's 1982 album, Talking Back to the Night. Despite the original single being a commercial flop, the remix of the song included in this album peaked at number 9 on the US charts. The album peaked at No. 26 on the Billboard 200 album chart.

Chronicles (Free album)

Chronicles is a 2006 greatest hits album by Free.

Chronicles (Jon and Vangelis album)

Chronicles is an album produced by Jon and Vangelis, released by Polydor in 1994.

Usage examples of "chronicles".

As keeper of the chronicles it was his privilege to live until he died.

The oldest pages of the tribal chronicles told of them: vast creatures that the gods had called into being in the first days of the Long Winter, when the less hardy denizens of the Great World were perishing of the darkness and the cold.

The chronicles testified that there had been plenty of false omens before this.

At first, so the chronicles declared, those people who had survived the early days of black rains and frightful cold had been content to live in mere caves, eating roots and nuts and catching such meat-creatures as they could.

Thaggoran saw the boy staring at the casket of the chronicles, which more than once he had allowed Hresh to peer into, even to touch, though it was against all propriety.

Thaggoran had found something in the chronicles, or had pretended to find something, that involved much singing and chanting and a torchlight procession through the lower caverns to the Chamber of Yissou, where his body was laid to rest beneath a cairn of blue rock.

For all his studies in the chronicles he had never imagined that such colors existed in the world, such smells, such shapes.

He knew of such things as day and night from the chronicles, but he had imagined that night would fall like a curtain, cutting off the light at a single stroke.

It was like a book of the chronicles jumping up from the casket and coming to life, with figures out of the lost Great World pouring forth and dancing about before him.

Instead of an old man of the tribe they would have three old women, who kept the chronicles on bright sheets of grassglass and spoke in unison.

Some things were in the chronicles, many things, yes, but some had been passed down only by spoken words, from one chronicler to the next across the hundreds of thousands of years, and now that line of transmission was broken, now those things were lost forever.

I will master all the secrets of the times gone by and the times to come, and I will fill my soul with wisdom until I nearly burst of it, and then I will set all my knowledge down in the chronicles, for those who are to follow after us in this the New Springtime.

Within lay the Barak Dayir in its pouch, and the shinestones nearby it, and the books of the chronicles pried as Thaggoran liked to keep them, with the current volume on top and the Book of the Way lying just beneath it.

These were all descriptions that he had found by touching his hands to the pages of the chronicles and letting the images rise to his mind.

The chronicles tell us that machines of the Great World are still to be found there and the finders will be made powerful by them.