And Smith would listen patiently to the oft-told tale.    From Wordnik.com.  [White Ashes] Reference

  Nor felt, nor feigned at least, the oft-told flames.    From Wordnik.com.  [Childe Harold's Pilgrimage] Reference

The oft-told tale that bombs are hard to make is a lie. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sum of all Fears]

Is it not the oft-told tale of those who have followed Icarus?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Myths] Reference

The crowd chuckles but Clinton's oft-told punchline falls flat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mayhill Fowler: Bill and Hillary: Just Regular Folk in North Carolina] Reference

To repeat the narrative of these would be telling an oft-told tale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roumania Past and Present] Reference

'Country' covers an oft-told music tale; two jailed Iranian masters.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Witch': Toil And Trouble] Reference

It's an oft-told tale that Schenkkan oddly thinks he's the first to tell.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bloody Old Kentucky Home] Reference

The rise and fall of the New York Working Men's Party is an oft-told tale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840] Reference

In some ways, the story qualifies as an oft-told immigrants-made-good saga.    From Wordnik.com.  [Goldman Sachs founder's life seen through heir's eyes] Reference

"After the First World War in 1918," Casey said, beginning the oft-told story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noble House]

The turning point was an oft-told story -- his time as prisoner of war in Vietnam.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain Gives Unvarnished View of His Past] Reference

The oft-told story that the United Auto Workers made out like bandits is nonsense.    From Wordnik.com.  [GM Bailout Makes Most of Bad Situation] Reference

In Hollywood there is the oft-told tale of the greater brother and the lesser brother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barry Bortnick: The Curious Case of Randy Quaid] Reference

My brethren, I have been striking the old notes to-day, and re-telling an oft-told story.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles] Reference

He seemed to know all this like an oft-told tale that still had power to awe and control him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference

One oft-told tale, for instance, details the perils of microwaving food in plastic containers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are microwave ovens dangerous?] Reference

It's an oft-told tale, but in Cameron's expert hands the oldest movie tropes seem newly imagined.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cinema’s Best of the Year] Reference

Even as a oft-told tale (Lindbergh himself told it twice), the flight can bring tears to the eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Lindy Dared] Reference

Here's a poem by Susan Browne, of California, that treats an oft-told story with great tenderness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

We need not tarry over the painful, touching scene oft-told, and felt sooner or later in every home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius] Reference

It is a real and oft-told tale, the individual rebelling from a collective society and its strictures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finishing off March's Asimov's] Reference

I recounted the oft-told story at Windycon, incorporating Powerpoint illustrations as well as special hats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Light: Open thread 134] Reference

Many of the oft-told stories of the most pluralistic nation on earth are stories not of tolerance, but of bigotry.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Quilt Of A Country] Reference

Stovell's suit, which challenges James's oft-told story of abandonment by an ex-con dad, is a bit of a mindbender.    From Wordnik.com.  [D.C. lawyer claims he's LeBron James's father] Reference

According to an oft-told story, perhaps apocryphal, Greeks were not introduced to potatoes until the 19th century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference

"Now, Tom, tell us all about Hull's surrender," said Zenas, to whom the stirring story was already an oft-told tale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812] Reference

It's the oft-told tale of a poor young woman whose fairy godmother helps her catch the attention of Prince Charming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Off] Reference

That Obama's father was a Kenyan immigrant and his mother was a white woman from Kansas has become an oft-told story.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Obama is Mediating His Way Toward the Presidency] Reference

The most exciting, though unoriginal, part of "Antarctic Destinies" traces the oft-told tales of the two expeditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Polar Opposites, Shifting Fame] Reference

On the evening of 5ovember 1954, Frank Sinatra became involved in the oft-told drama of the so-called Wrong Door Raid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sinatra The Man Behind the Myth]

The oft-told Ludwig story is that he came to Washington in the late 1970s simply because his brother, Eugene, moved here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ken Ludwig returns to Signature Theatre with golf farce 'A Fox in the Fairway'] Reference

So Munro took history and mingled it with imagination, fleshing out her ancestry, peopling the book with oft-told family stories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference

While that's an oft-told tale, consider one of the less-publicized features of Vista, which shows some of the same dynamics at work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culture of Worry] Reference

He slapped his hands together with a loud clap and his men stirred eagerly, like children listening to a favorite and oft-told story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modesty Blaise]

The now oft-told green business success story of the Toyota Prius still speaks volumes - the company set out to make an environmental car.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrew Winston: Do You Need to "Believe" in Climate Change?] Reference

Schexnayder, who calls Dean the consummate Southern gentleman, loves the oft-told story of a big game when Dean, a tight end, got injured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interstate 69] Reference