bard

The bard of Idaho, where he was raised but no longer lives, Hunter is keenly aware that no one exists in a psychological vacuum.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Jefferson rightly saw himself as the bard of the first stages of our experiment with self-rule.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

They beat themselves up over both of those performances - "jobby" was midfielder John McGinn's description and no bard could have come up with a better description.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

Paul Mescal plays Shakespeare — not the untouchable bard of legend but a husband and father reckoning with grief.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2025

Breathless, and with his yellow hair pointing in all directions, the bard flung himself from the steed and ran to Adaon.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

This renders Mr. Bacon’s subtitle inapt: “The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald” has been told and retold by authors and bards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025

The exploits of Sundiata Keita, a near-mythical figure in the Mande oral tradition, have been passed down by generations of bards.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

In the same way we accept that bar fights get more dangerous if someone decides to punch up Motörhead’s “Ace of Spades” on a jukebox, bards can cast spells in Dungeons & Dragons.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2023

It was that alchemy of poetry, vernacular speech and cosmic awareness that made him one of our great bards, on the same plane as Toni Morrison, James Baldwin and Amiri Baraka.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2022

“Your names are not unknown among the bards of the north.”

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

You’ll note that they’re using both normal cassowaries as well as a twin-mounted fully barded champron-equipped Maximum cassowary with criniere and boiled leather peytral.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 1, 2014

His steel was a deep cobalt, even the blunt momingstar he wielded with such deadly effect, his mount barded in the quartered sun-and-moon heraldry of House Tarth.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

The horse was barded in bronze- colored trappings dyed to match the rider's cloak and emblazoned with the burning tree.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

He rode a coal-black horse barded all in white, with the pure white shield of the Kingsguard strapped to his arm.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Lastly came the Legate himself, mounted on a barded mule trapped in crimson velvet, with gold front-stalls, studs, buckles, and stirrups.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 by Rossiter Johnson