1040 examples of told by in sentences

He corroborated exactly the story told by Parks and myself, but he added one detail.

The story of the Arab hero from this point in his career is told by Sanderson, the faithful commemorator of great nineteenth-century patriots, a high authority on modern Africa.

Her friends, who came to congratulate her the next day after the wedding, were surprised to find her weeping bitterly, and, in answer to their raillery, were told by her, "Alas!

I allow that he made her an angry speech; but let the circumstances fairly appear, as told by Mr. Baretti, who was present: 'Mrs. Thrale, while supping very heartily upon larks, laid down her knife and fork, and abruptly exclaimed, "O, my dear Mr. Johnson, do you know what has happened?

Had any opposition been offered, it was the intention of the officers (so we are told by Ashburnham) to have unfurled the royal standard, and to have placed Charles at their head.

Even the spirited deportment of the Signorina Borgherini, as told by Vasari, towards a dealer, who, during the siege of Florence, attempted to get possession of certain paintings belonging to her husband, to speculate upon by sending them to the king of France, may still find its counterpart in feeling, if not in fact, among some of the living daughters of that city.

A PLACARD FOR THE PRESS PART I: TOLD BY R.M. CHAPTER I POTTERS 1 Johnny and Jane Potter, being twins, went through Oxford together.

ALMANZOR, the caliph, wishing to found a city in a certain spot, was told by a hermit named Bag dad that a man called Moclas was destined to be its founder.

Their similarity to those current among the Ojibwas, and other Eastern Algonquin tribes, is sufficiently obvious and altogether to be expected, nor is it at all remarkable that we should find, among the Blackfeet, tales identical with those told by tribes of different stock far to the south; but it is a little startling to see in the story of the Worm Pipe a close parallel to the classical myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.

A story is told by Vasari which brings Signorelli very close to our sympathy, and enables us to understand the fascination of pure form he felt so deeply.

On the arrival of the party I especially asked after the little animal and was told by Demetri that he had returned, but later it transpired that this was a mistakethat he had been missed on the journey and had not turned up again later as was supposed.

A story told by Lady Scott illustrates the spirit of these menthe expedition first, personal distinctions nowhere.

The story is told by the elder Richardson, in his remarks on the tardy progress of Milton's great work in the public opinion.

These are our lives; as told by the people and written by members of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration in N. C., Tenn., & Georgia.

The sleeping beauty, as told by Mary Windsor. Illus.

North Carolina history told by contemporaries.

Told by Margaret Wise Brown. Illus.

Told by Jane Werner.

Beacon Hill children; or, Chronicles of the Corey family as told by Dee.

Beginning with the Pacific Coast, we are told by Powers (405) that, on the whole, California Indians did not make such slaves of women as the Indians of the Atlantic side of the continent.

" A single incident, told by herself in later years, will show the frolic-loving spirit of the girl, and the gentleness of Roxana Beecher.

He had read of ghosts, and overheard stories told by the servant girls in apparent good faith, and that whitish, almost luminous thing in front of him, stirring restlessly with a faint hissing sound, looked and acted the part of a ghost to perfection.

I am told by those who were in the company at the time that he was obviously suffering and dazed, this last night of life.

On the morning of the fifth day after his arrival at Denver, he was told by Kansas Shorty to accompany Danny upon his day's work and watch how this small, weak boy managed to earn a living for himself and his master, who under the pretense of "showing him the world", had enticed him away from his home.

He was then told by the Lady of the Lake that it was gifted with magic powers, and that as long as the scabbard remained in his possession he would suffer neither wound nor defeat.

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