balladist
Example Sentences
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This balladist of the Middle West, whose books sell millions of copies, is as representative of the great sentimentality of America, as the Ford car is of our thrift.
From Time Magazine Archive
More of More Hall was nothing at all For a balladist to brag on, Compared with our Knight of the Watering Pot— If he'll slay our River Dragon!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, September 30th 1893 by Various
Mrs. Dora Sigerson Shorter is a balladist of stark power, and Miss Eva Gore-Booth a lyric poet whose natural lilt no preoccupation with mysticism can for more than a moment obscure.
From Irish Plays and Playwrights by Weygandt, Cornelius
Indeed your balladist, like Allan Breck Stewart, was never a bigoted partisan of the law.
From The Balladists Famous Scots Series by Geddie, John
The balladist and his men and women speak straight to the point, and call a spade a spade.
From The Balladists Famous Scots Series by Geddie, John
