Prose
Tale
Tale noun - A rumor or report of a personal or sensational nature.
Both words in one sentence
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Tam Lin and Janet marry.Joseph Jacobs rewrote the ballad into a prose fairy tale, "Tamlane", published in his 1894 More English Fairy Tales.
Source: Literature / Tam Lin - While different, Gesta Danorum's tale and that recorded in Poetic Edda and Prose Edda are similar in some ways.
Source: Analysis / Norse Mythology -
If you take all the purple prose out of A Tale of Two Cities, the book would be about 50 pages long.
Source: Purple Prose
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