Ling may live another three hundred years on her homeworld, back in the Five Galaxies, telling embroidered tales about her adventure among the feral barbarians of a shabby, illicit colony.

So she called the King of Eldwold that morning in his warm house with its floors covered with rich furs and walls shimmering with ancient, embroidered tales.

I toyed with a few embroidered tales to widen his eyes, but alas, my conscience tweaked me.

"Mr. Scaring, I'm not on trial," the short, slender woman told the lawyer, Stephen Scaring, who suggested that she had consented to the sexual activity and then wove a highly embroidered tale of being attacked.

They told highly embroidered tales of pirates and piracy and deeds of derring-do, and everybody was convinced that the age of piracy was at an end.

Every time Riker tried to steer the discussion to the arena of the brewing Romulan-Reman conflict, Khegh just as quickly diverted it with boasts, blusters, and heavily embroidered tales of past battles.

Ms. Aguero Blanch's account of her long relationship with Mr. Menem is a richly embroidered tale of magic.

While formally a tutor for the handful of male children, he became a favorite of all summer kids for his thrilling, embroidered tales of the wild, open sea.

It made Maia wonder about those embroidered tales told about the original Lamai.

"You'll amuse your Master then, with the full and properly embroidered tale of your travels…" "You're to bring me to Master Robinton?"