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Meanings of tells a tale in English

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Usage of tells a tale in English
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Prince tells a tale that is characteristic of him and of Cromwell.
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
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When he tells a tale we never know how much to believe.
The House of Souls
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The boy tells a tale of confrontation; of watching his family die.
Daughters of the Nile
4
About Deliverance: Pather's Deliverance tells a tale of survival of victims of abuse.
The South African
5
Tomorrow's Gospel tells a tale of Jesus's family arriving to bring him home.
The Irish Times
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It tells a tale of woe, with reluctance to disclose it.
The Lone Ranche
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He tells a tale of being the one who ran away.
Daughters of the Nile
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It tells a tale of friendship and imagination, something the author certainly never lacked.
The Irish Times
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Northup's narrative of enslavement tells a tale of class exile.
Ebony
10
Hark to the City's voice; it tells a tale
The California Birthday Book / Prose and Poetical Selections fro...
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And it tells a tale of bloodshed and destruction.
News.com.au
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That tells a tale,' said a cheerful voice.
Farina
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And one mounts upon a stool and tells a tale to the others who have gathered round.
Paul Kelver
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This speaks volumes about club culture's burn-out rate, but it also tells a tale about Coldcut's resilience.
The Irish Times
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Who but a poet tells a tale in such language to the little ones by the fire-side as-
Biographia Literaria
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Even dress tells a tale to those who study it so closely as he did, being an illuminator.
The Cloister and the Hearth
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