thrice-told

Melding sentimental, thrice-told accounts of New Orleans music and food with stern finger-pointing at a guilty world, "Why New Orleans Matters" was convincing only to the already convinced and disappointing to everyone else, especially in the way it ignored or excused the harsh realities of a deeply dysfunctional city.

Calamity and the City 2008

It would be a thrice-told tale to repeat the story of the Jesuits; the world knows that too well already.

Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited Robert A. Wilson

The history of the separation of the lovers -- of De Musset's illness, jealousy, and departure from Venice alone -- is a thrice-told tale.

Famous Women: George Sand Bertha Thomas

Any detailed comment on the literary qualities of the genius which thus disclosed itself would exceed the limits of this memoir; and indeed such comment is, now, a thrice-told tale.

Henry Fielding: a Memoir G. M. Godden

During the long winter evenings, the barrels and boxes in his tent seated a jovial crowd of officers, who in games and with thrice-told stories, would while away what would otherwise be tedious hours.

Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac William H. Armstrong

Any detailed comment on the literary qualities of the genius which thus disclosed itself would exceed the limits of this memoir; and indeed such comment is, now, a thrice-told tale.

Henry Fielding A Memoir Godden, G M 1909

The famous criticism of the "metaphysical poets" is so {224} written that a plain man feels at home in it: the thrice-told tale of the lives of Pope and Addison is so retold that every one thinks he reads it for the first time.

Dr. Johnson and His Circle John Cann Bailey 1897

The story of the burning of the translation of the New Testament at St. Paul's Cross by Bishop Tunstall, of the same bishop's purchase of a "heap of the books" for the same charitable purpose, thereby furnishing Tyndale with means for providing another edition and for printing his translation of the Pentateuch, all this is a thrice-told tale.

Books Fatal to Their Authors 1892

But as this would be to tell a thrice-told tale, I content myself with giving in an abridged form the account I prepared from the papers of General

The Life of Gordon, Volume I Demetrius Charles Boulger 1890

In it he saw a hungry monster reaching out to every corner of the continent and devouring the news of the world; feeding upon tales of shipwreck and disaster, lingering over some dainty morsel of scandal, snatching from ships and cities two thousand miles away the thrice-told tale of a conflagration, the score of a baseball match, the fall of a cabinet, the assassination of a king.

The Lost Road Richard Harding Davis 1890