Word: bard
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...sang our bard in real dramatic tones...
Thus mused a more political than scientific-minded bard on the expedition to be known as the James Simpson-Roosevelt-Field Expedition into the Pamir region of Asia. Taking the poet's points in order...
...Davidson belongs to a school of modern poets who are forever speaking in fairy tales, and dwelling on the horrors of death, and using exotic words, such as are classed in the dictionary as "obs," or "poet"--if indeed they are to be found in any dictionary. This musical bard uses many fairy tales, talks of dead skulls by the score, and uses dozens of strange words. But he puts music in his tales, puts hope into his talk of death, and chooses his vocabulary more for its sound, than for its meaning. Yet it is full of meaning, poignantly...
...bard of our nation There's no doubt that he stands...
...Queens Club, London, in the Oxford-Cambridge track meet, S. H. Thomson, Princeton graduate, won the shot-put and 120-yard hurdles. A Yale graduate, J. S. Bard, won the pole-vault...