1040 examples of tell by in sentences

The blue mass reappears; they come with a wild rush in well-ordered array; they are the regulars, Jack can tell by their movements.

You can tell by the man's eyes that he is unhappy.

For the moment the savage, hungry satisfaction changed his face; they could tell by that alteration what agonies he had been suffering before.

Another long pause and then he volunteered suddenly: "You can mostly tell by Alviry.

"It's very strange, Kennedy, but I could not in the least tell by the sound in which direction you stand.

Here is the pedant Sir Aminadab; I will inquire of him if he can tell By any circumstance, whose wife she is: Such fellows commonly have intercourse Without suspicion, where we are debarr'd.

" You could tell by Mabel's eyes and attitude that she was what the salesmen call "sold" already; but you didn't need a magnifying glass to detect that Ticknor wasn't.

"I can tell by the way he rides, sort of slanting.

There may be a man named Croisset among our three hundred workersyou can tell by looking at the pay-roll.

"If I don't get the one, I shall certainly have the other," said he; and you could tell by his voice how mad he was.

I should think that you could tell by the color of my shell that I have had a fire lighted on my back many times.

One may be ever so poor and may have ever so little clothing, but one can always tell by a girl's appearance, what is to be laid to the account of poverty, and what is to be laid to the account of sluttishness.

And I may as well end what I have got to tell by saying something which may or may not have been apparent to other people, but which, anyhow, it would be Potterish humbug on my part to try to hide.

I could tell by her looks.

They might not, however, find it very easy to tell by what noun the word beloved's or mine is governed, in the last example above; and so of many others, which are used in the same way: as, "There shall nothing die of all that is the children's of Israel.

"You have to tell by your feelings," she answered slowly.

She could not tell by the feeling whether she had two legs or one.

He heard them squeaking and dug them out; he could not tell by what method they had gotten in.

Now even Dodo could tell by the footprints on the sand whether a three-toed Plover or a four-toed Sandpiper had been pattering there.

"They're Armeniansyou can tell by their complexions.

If the case is not one he has heard of or discussed, he can easily tell by the actions and surroundings of the court room how public feeling lies.

They could tell by experience about what was the degree of uncertainty, and could lay their wagers accordingly.

The other horses also kept to the ridge, as I could tell by the pounding of hoofs on the soft turf.

" He could tell by my accent that I was a foreigner, and said: "We thought that you had told the Government about that little free speaking we had here a few days ago.

Now, I suppose that if I chose to walk arm in arm with the dingiest mulatto through the streets of Philadelphia, nobody could possibly tell by my complexion that I was not his sister, so that the mere quality of mistress must have had a most miraculous effect upon my skin in the eyes of poor Rose.

1040 examples of  tell by  in sentences