Sentences with phrase «found fables»

That's when I found Fables by Barrie.

I like everyone here are looking to find the fabled unicorn — a top 5 Qb for the next 12 yrs or so.

Not ready to give up on his childhood fantasies, Tom forms the Band of Robbers, recruiting their misfit friends, Joe Harper and Ben Rogers, to join them for an elaborate plan to find a fabled treasure.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Tim Burton's cinematic take on the first of three novels in Ransom Riggs» popular dark YA fantasy series, introduces Jacob (Asa Butterfield in the film), a child who ventures out to find the fabled Miss Peregrine (Eva Green), whom his late grandfather had told him so many enrapturing stories about.

Werner Herzog's haunting, fictionalized odyssey set in 1560 tells the tale of a group of Spaniards out to find the fabled city of El Dorado, rumored to have an unlimited wealth of gold.

When Jack crosses paths with a woman from his past (Penélope Cruz), he's not sure if it's love - or if she's a ruthless con artist who's using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth.

When Jack crosses paths with a woman from his past (Penélope Cruz), he's not sure if it's love or if she's a ruthless con artist using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth.

Lying, bribing, hijacking talent, and dodging police, Denham nevertheless gets the steamship Venture to sea in a mad quest to find the fabled Skull Island.

Firstly, Thorin quickly develops an unhealthy obsession with the dwarf treasures that Smaug so zealously guarded, and is hell - bent on finding the fabled «arkenstone» gem considered sacred by dwarves but which Bilbo (Martin Freeman) has already located and is hiding from the gold - crazy king for his own good.

During the story, announcements of a contest to find the fabled Lost World, which was said to have dominated legends for centuries, attracted «would - be» explorers all over the world to seize the long awaited chance of fame and fortune.

Teachers however find it difficult to find fables or children's stories that depict the North African way of life and its Arab dominated culture.

The Compass» CVT is slightly better than most I've encountered but I felt I was more likely to find the fabled lost city of Atlantis before I got a quick boost of acceleration off the line or out of corners.

The Quest for Z brings young readers the story of Percy Fawcett's early 20th - century explorations in the Amazon, where he hoped to find the fabled, ancient city of «Z.» Readers know from 2015's Tricky Vic: The Impossibly True Story of the Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower that Greg Pizzoli writes about complicated people with honesty and never condescends to young readers.

Years later, somewhere in the Arctic, Sir John Franklin has disappeared with his crew and two ships on an expedition to find the fabled Northwest Passage.

A town's medina is where visitors will find the fabled souks and street markets of Morocco.

Can you find the fabled crossbow?

Turns out that Jack wants to find this fabled Vault as well; he's a control freak who wants the power that the Vault contains.

Can they find the fabled paradise of Elysium in time to save what's left of humanity?»

Can you find the fabled paradise she calls home?

In spite of decades of measurements they still can't find the fabled hot spot 10 km above the equator at all.

Not exact matches

It never had to compete with the likes of Danny Meyer, the founding force behind fabled New York restaurants like Union Square Café, Gramercy Tavern, and Eleven Madison Park — Zagat royalty all.

However, for those who insist on trying to find some meaning from it, they are forced to decide which side of the contradictions to take and since much of it is untrue, they also must guess as to what part of the bible they should accept and what they should ignore as just a fable.

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What I find amazing is that they are able to rationalize their belief in myths and fables, as if those things are really true, by citing scientific findings, which are the exact opposite from faith - based beliefs.

I just wish they could find a way to spread their positive message without the inclusion of myths and fables.

To sample them, read the story of the attempted sacrifice of Isaac in Genesis 22:1 - 14, Jacob's flight from r in Genesis 31, the finding of the baby Moses in Exodus 1:15 — 2:10, Aaron and the golden calf in Exodus 32:1 - 6, 15 - 24, Joshua's farewell address in Joshua 24:14 - 25, Jotham's fable in Judges 9:6 - 21, or the boy Samuel in I Samuel 1 and 3.

Do a single day of research and I promise you will find enough evidence within your own book of fables to completely discredit all of it.

The bible is a book of myths and fables... It just has had better promoters, who found it useful for their purpose, than Aesop or any of the other fiction writers of the past...

More misguided even is the belief — perhaps not truly traditional — that the entire system can be found in the book's now fabled third part.

«Religions are all alike - founded on fables and mythologies.»

In the collection there is found included a great variety of literary forms, prose narratives, fables, fairy tales, much poetry of various sorts, a good deal of ballad form, reported sayings on many subjects, and fragments of epics.

It is not found in the canon of the schools which were translated into the Chinese language.20 It contains much more in the nature of poetry, songs, proverbs, parables, and fables than the other divisions.

Here one finds the dull report of the census - taker, the uninspired but minute directions for the performance of the cult, stories of man's beginnings and that of many of the common experiences of his life, such as language, relationship of races, why the rainbow; colorful stories, of the might and prowess of ancient ancestors of the race, riddles, puns, fables, prayers, songs that have become almost the universal songs of the human race, the history of the rise and fall of dynasties, the preaching of reformers and prophets, the questioning of it all by men grown weary of the struggle, proverbial sayings of great wisdom; the dreams of conquest both of earth and heaven.

Traveling hundreds of miles and searching through liquor store in Vermont to find a bottle or two of Fable Farm cider is worth it.

Finding that beach of your dreams, reliving a moment in history, or standing in that fabled spot are all great reasons to do your research and make visiting these places a reality.

We are, after all, a country founded on the proposition (or fable) of «popular sovereignty,» and the convention instantiates a moment of such sovereignty, even if one hesitates to give it full authority to adopt a new constitution without further consultation.

For centuries, two fabled Egyptian cities lay hidden in the Nile delta — until underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio found them.

It's not the fabled Atlantis, but it is tantalizing: Researchers studying the Mediterranean's Sicilian Channel, an area now underwater but partially exposed as recently as 9,000 years ago, found a 40 - foot - long monolith, broken in two, with uniform, regularly spaced holes that could not be explained through any natural process.

The findings of the study, based on the Aesop's fable The Crow and the Pitcher, help solve a debate about whether children learning to use tools are genuinely learning about physical causation or are just driven by what action previously led to a treat.

The Aesop's fable of the sour grapes is a prime example of wanting something but when you find out you can't have it, you decide you never liked it anyway.

A new study, which treats these fables like an evolving species, finds that some may have originated as long as 6000 years ago.

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Earlier this year, OKCupid examined its data and found that a person's profile picture is, said a post on its Oktrends blog, «worth that fabled thousand words, but your actual words are worth... almost nothing.»

More than 2,000 years after Alexander the Great founded Alexandria, archaeologists are discovering its fabled remains A rather different woman to the Empress Pulcheria lived and died in Alexandria.

Parents and teachers of learning disabled children will find This Collection of Aesop's Fables is the largest online exhibit of Aesop and other Fables, on the net.

In Fable III you can find adventure and a terrific world to explore, but you won't find a strong gameplay experience.

This is no Disney fable and the apocalyptic vision isn't for everyone, but science - fiction fans and adventurous filmgoers will find this ingenious explosion of retro - cyberpunk a compelling dystopian vision with a gleam of hope.

Lawrence Kasdan's 1981 noir fable is highly derivative in its overall conception, but it finds some freshness in its details.

In this absurdist, black - comic modern fable, which Yorgos dreamed up with cowriter Efthymis Filippou, Ariane does a star turn in a supporting role as the chambermaid in a hotel where people arrested for being single are taken and given forty - five days to find a mate from among the other «guests.»

Call of Duty: Ghosts is at # 2, and then at # 3 we find newcomer Fable: Anniversary.