We have no meanings for "unvarnished tale" in our records yet.
1 A plain unvarnished tale is preferable to the most highly ornamented narrative.
2 In brief, a plain, unvarnished tale unfold, and I shall be content.
3 Neither of these versions, however, is a plain, unvarnished tale .
4 Then Malemute Kid, who was a born raconteur, told the unvarnished tale of the Northland Lochinvar.
5 In the first place, it is a plain, unvarnished tale , no attempt at fine writing in it.
6 Does he seem to you to be a romancer or a narrator of a plain unvarnished tale ?
7 Admirable, too, is the expression "round unvarnished tale . "
8 If he had written in the style of a plain seaman, and told a simple unvarnished tale , it would have been all right.
9 I sat down to tell a plain, unvarnished tale , and I will not let the weird horror of that ride get into my pen.
10 To quote Lord Bacon again, take my "round, unvarnished tale , " and perhaps the world will yet acknowledge that some good has been done by
11 Some of these bald, unvarnished tales give a capital idea of the men who conquered the wilderness.
12 "But you shall hear me;" and Bobby proceeded to deliver his "plain, unvarnished tale . "
13 "Now," he said, "I will tell you a plain, unvarnished tale ; " and he gave them, in full detail, the adventure he had gone through.
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