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Charlie has transcended a workhouse childhood to become a person of some culture—his favorite novelist is, ironically enough, that bard of extreme poverty, Charles Dickens.

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

“Deliver Me From Nowhere” doesn’t try to tell the entire life story of New Jersey’s beloved rock bard, Bruce “The Boss” Springsteen — in fact, it doesn’t even really cover his biggest hits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2025

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

With their swords Taran and the bard cut stout branches, while Eilonwy and Gurgi stripped vines from the tree trunks.

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

Wilson found his vocation as a street poet with a group of neighborhood bards known as the Centre Avenue Poets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2023

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

“The bards would sing of us,” he admitted, “but we’d be in no position to appreciate it.”

From "The Book of Three" 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

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

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

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

On the turf, sprang gay With his films of blue, No cricket, I'll say, But a warhorse, barded and chanfroned too, The gift of a quixote-mage to his knight, Real fairy, with wings all right.

From An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry by Hiram Corson