oft-told

It was an oft-told story, but the boy stared at Jupiter with greater interest.

"It never happened that way," Kutner said of the oft-told story.

But this oft-told tale leaves out something important, according to a recent look at several of these sometimes colorful characters.

Nevertheless, it's a clever way of finding new routes through an oft-told story.

It is an oft-told tale that has become part of Albany lore.

An oft-told story recalls one afternoon when the siblings were house-hunting here.

Many believe mat oft-told legends refer to this event, and would place it at about 33,000 years before the present.

Clearly he was keener to talk about economic indicators and repeat the oft-told success story of his country.

But his story is not like the oft-told tale of an immigrant who comes to America to support a poverty-stricken family back home.

We get oft-told tales about assimilation, immigration and language.

The oft-told tale that bombs are hard to make is a lie.'

The little man sighed with pleasure; he had given up hope of finding a new listener for that oft-told tale.

Duff watched eagerly, and at his side stood Charlie, as one who hears an oft-told story.

The fabulous bones of this oft-told tale have been picked over so often that there's no flesh left on them.

Speaking of oft-told tales, do we really need another book about the person billed as the only police officer executed for murder?

A version of an oft-told ancient Greek story concerns a contest between two renowned painters.

At this point in telling the no doubt oft-told tale, Lillian gestured behind the visitor's head.

Maybe it’s the lab coats that make this oft-told tale seem new and newly creepy.

What happened next is an oft-told tale.

It is an oft-told story: the public face of fame hides the private burden of pain.

It seemed to be an oft-told joke.

He peppered his talk with oft-told hip-hop tales and intriguing nuggets of cultural history.

James's oft-told "bad mother" anecdote recalls a Sunday morning when she asked the nanny for a child to accompany her to church.

But to many psychologists and sociologists who study male relationships, this rift is an oft-told tale.

Consider the oft-told one about the Greatest Generation.