Sentence Examples

  • A Bit O' Blarney has Celtic sets in white or yellow gold.
  • The "Blarney Stone," the kissing of which is said to confer this faculty, is pointed out within the castle.
  • To its founder is traced by some the origin of the term "blarney," since he delayed by persuasion and promises the surrender of the castle to the lord president.
  • The name "blarney" has passed into the language to denote a peculiar kind of persuasive eloquence, alleged to be characteristic of the natives of Ireland.
  • Richard Millikin's song, "The Groves of Blarney" (c. 1798), contributed to the fame of the castle, which is also bound up with the civil history of the county and the War of the Great Rebellion.
 
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