For seven days Scott descended, etching his own tale into mountaineering lore.

The squandered loaf, the swarming mass of vermin tell their own tale.

It was a gesture of submission, and it told its own tale.

This was supererogatory, for the tracks told their own tale too well.

With this preface they may be left to tell their own tale.

On this subject she may be left to tell her own tale.

But there was a glaze over them that told its own tale.

And according to her own tale, Peggy had never lived in the country.

The strained eyes, the blue shadows round the mouth told their own tale.

But now the empty places and the unslept-in beds told their own tale.

The buildup to those dramatic final seconds told its own tale.

Not good behavior in a paterfamilias, but the habit told its own tale.

True, Irene survives her own suicide to tell her own tale.

It will ever tell its own tale, and tell it the same way.

That it was Dublin's only goal chance told its own tale.

By following in their footsteps, China would script its own tale of unhappiness.