5903 collocations for tell

If I were telling a story for amusement's sake, I should probably place it on that night of nights; but this is a true record of my own experiences, and I would not put pen to paper to amuse anyone.

Do let the astrologers tell the truth for once; since he became emperor, they have never let a year pass, never a month, without laying him out for his burial.

Question him, he will tell you the tale when you are alone; before company he is dumb.

He also told me a great many things that Blowitz had said to himhe had a great opinion of himsaid he was so marvellously well-informed of all that was going on.

Yet this much may I tell thee truly: all who have confessed his sway have been men of might and valor.

If I find that you have told me a lie, I will kill him.

When we had music or danced at our house, we used to tell some well-known man to say "on danse chez Madame King ce soir."

There were a few words of explanation from the man who had come home, and then, in gruff but not unkindly tones, he bade Babette be seated, and told his mother to get some supper speedily.

I'm saying, if the deevil himsel" "And I'm telling ye hold your peace!" cried the woman, in great excitement.

(To Daughter) "Come, darling, we'll go and tell your father."

Although she felt at first a natural disappointment that she would not be allowed to labour in the mission field, she was able to look upward in her hour of trial and to say: "Tell my friends I never regretted leaving my native land for the cause of Christ.

"Roland," I said, humoring the poor child, which I knew was the only way, "if you are going to tell me this secret to do any good, you know you must be quite quiet, and not excite yourself.

When he had looked on at the dancing for some time, he said to the Prince of Wales: "Tell those people to stop now, I have seen enough"evidently thought it was a ballet performing for his amusement.

" The women slipped quietly into Mary's room to tell her the latest news.

"Let's tell my wife, too.

And look here, Bruce, leave it to me to tell the children.

Cassian tells us the reason that led to the introduction of this Hour.

He told the first boy he called up, and who did not seem to be more than seven or eight years of age, to add 5, 3, and 7 together, and tell him the result.

The Box Office man told the Programme-girl, The Theatre all was in quite a whirl.

All this has long passed into the domain of history, and has been told so many times by so many different people that I will not go into details except to say that the French protectorate of Tunis (now one of our most flourishing colonies) was entirely arranged by W. in a long confidential conversation with Lord Salisbury.

Reviving, she told the King, with her usual frankness, that he was "like apes who caress children and suffocate them"; and this high-minded monarch soon proceeded to justify her remark by ordering her lover to the Castle of Pignerol, to prevent a private marriage,which had probably taken place already.

"May I tell you the facts, so far as we know them?"

I 'blige' to tell 'im!" "Madame Delphine" "Oh!

Gazing at his peoplehe can never tell whythe words freeze on his lips.

All that remains of them to tell their history is a series of interrupted fragments of channels, mostly choked with gravel, and buried beneath broad, thick sheets of lava.

5903 collocations for  tell