bard

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

Joshua Oppenheimer is our age’s great bard of cognitive dissonance.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2024

Nearly a decade after the death of his 15-year-old son, the Australian post-punk bard has a new album, ‘Wild God,’ that he says finds a path to joy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2024

“I must say,” the bard remarked, “you foretold it exactly.”

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

Before human beings used cameras to tell their stories, before books and bards and cave paintings, probably, there was the movie of the mind, the never-ending picture starring . . . you.

From Salon ● Jun. 4, 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

“I thought bards had to study a great deal,” Eilonwy said.

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

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

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

Their gallant steeds, barded and richly caparisoned, held by their esquires, stood neighing and pawing at the foot of the steps leading from the oaken doors.

From The Days of Bruce Vol 1 A Story from Scottish History by Aguilar, Grace