In any event, there is nothing truly known about him, except terrible tales told by sailors.

Then she told me a terrible tale of abuse and injury.

"It's really rather a terrible tale, so can I take off my hat?"

All the desolation of the lost woman told its terrible tale in that one word.

Grant me leave to speak for I have a strange and terrible tale to tell!

Even the children who were not yet born know this terrible tale.

Maybe it was fear of having no terrible tales to swap in the office on Monday morning.

It is a terrible tale, and one could not bear it, but for the end.

He had a strange and terrible tale to tell, once I could drag it out of him.

In this last instance, the statistics of London tell a terrible tale.