966 examples of read to in sentences

In my pocket here," he tapped the breast of his coat, "are instructions I shall read to you before we leave.

When we asked why he did so, he said, Because I had no other means, and I wished to have her read the New Testament to us; now I have the advantage of hearing that precious book read to me by my own daughter.

His happiness demanded that he should read to me the many letters which poured in from high officials of the C.I.D., from the Chief Commissioner, and on one daya day of days in the chronicles of Dawsonfrom the Home Secretary himself.

He has a pocket full of letters which he has read to me till I know them by heart.

James hovered about, put out and miserable, but active and exact as ever; read to her, when there was a lull, short bits from the Psalms, prose and metre, chanting the latter in his own rude and serious way, showing great knowledge of the fit words, bearing up like a man, and doating over her as his "ain Ailie."

They were soothed by the never-failing devotion of those that were always at hand to read to him or to receive his remarks.

This will be read to the Foreign Ministers here.

I wish you would read to me in the Bible.

I made her read to me, sing to me, sit by me, touch me with her little, soft hand.

And he read to the people out of the Book of Magicians, which tells the comings of the comet and foretells his coming again.

I hear many interesting letters read to me from the Continent, and one in particular from Mr. Fazakerly, describing his interview of four hours with Bonaparte, was particularly good.

'I do not wish to be read to.

I remember some things that a little girl teacher in Massachusetts read to me a great many years ago, and there is a dent in my old heart still.

On the day succeeding the arrival of this general order at each military post the troops will be paraded at 10 o'clock a.m. and the order read to them, after which all labors for the day will cease.

Then she made it worse by runnin' up the stairs an' bouncin' into the room like a rubber ball, an' cryin': 'Now, what shall I do, read to you, or sing to you, or shall we play games?

"Didn't you find anything to read to-day, Mr. Hoff?"

These statements were the substance of a formal report which he had just prepared for the eye of Sir Lionel Smith, and which he was kind enough to read to us.

For several weeks after his arrival at Hillsdale he was a confirmed invalid, lying all day upon the sofa in the parlor, while Maggie read to him from books which he selected, partly for the purpose of amusing himself, and more for the sake of benefiting her and improving her taste for literature.

I could read to them and write their letters home for them," and she looked pathetically sympathetic.

" "At nine o'clock, then?" "Yes." "Lend me your La Rochefoucauld to read to-night?"

" The unbending moralist later protested that Winona's letters should not be read to her friends.

Another read to him an hour at noon from twelve to one.

Really, when I go into mother's room to read to her, I am continually interrupted by a variety of orders which might easily be avoided, were it not for the domineering spirit which is, it seems to me, inherent in a Carolinian; and they are such fine ladies that if a shutter is to be hooked, or a chair moved, or their work handed to them, a servant must be summoned to do it for them.

" This paper Isa read to Mrs. Plausaby, and that lady, after much vacillation, signed it with a feeble hand.

He desired me to read to him the debates of the Virginia Assembly, on the election of a Senator and Governor; which I didand, on hearing Mr. Madison's observations respecting Mr. Monroe, he appeared much affected, and spoke with some degree of asperity on the subject, which I endeavored to moderate, as I always did on such occasions.

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