Do we say tole or toll

tole 185 occurrences

"I tole yer so, Dab," groaned poor Dick.

An' sosehAh ain't neveh tole on yo'.

Out with it!" "Well, seh, Mahstah Majah, of co'se, yo'-all tole me to fix it man own way, an' Ah lay Ah'd do it raghtlyan' so Miss Cahline is ve'y busy goin' th'oo

Now Ah tole yo' Ah ain't go'n' a' have none o' this yeh Doctah foolishness.

I tole yer dar ain't no Angler Saxun blood in dese veins.

Dat ar angel hab grat hansum eyes, an' she tole me she war yer mudder; an' dat she war gwine to be wid yer allers, cause twar de will ob de Lord.

"She tole me," said Phoebe, "that she had wrote two times already to Miss Miriam, and then, havin' suspected somethin', had gone to the pos'-office and found they was still dar.

If he'd wanted ter fit der odder feller hisself I'd tole him how ter bruck der odder chap's wrist, but he ain't got der sand ter fight a baby.

Another white man, not Alex Rogers, tole mama and papa and a heap others out in the field working.

Lot of them run offen the place soon as the man tole 'em.

"If I could think of all she tole I'd soon have enough to fill up that book you're getting up.

Once when he was going away to be gone all day, he tole me what to do while he was gone.

I tole him de big boss had tole me what to do

I tole him de big boss had tole me what to do

I tole the overseer fore he whipped me he's show himself a better man than I was.

He come back fo dark and went tole Mars Tom.

They died in piles bout after that August I tole you bout.

"Dr. May come tole 'em it was freedom.

"One story she tole more than others was: Up at Des Arc country the Yankees come and made them give up their something-to-eat.

"I tole you I was a stole chile.

"Den she give me dis mug's address, an' two bones for me fare, an' tole me ter come down here, which I did, an' I wish ter I hadn't; see?"

"'Sieur Frowenfel'," said Aurora, in her recital, "Palmyre, she never tole me dad, mais I am shoe, shoe dad she fall in love wid Honoré Grandissime.

'I know's dat, but ef I tole on Joe, Massa oberseer cut him all up again, and Massa Jesus says, "Blessed am de Peacemaker.

I tole ole Miss Anderson's daughter dat

So, wen 'lection time com'd, de man he war workin' fer tole him ef he woted de radical ticket he'd turn him off.

toll 478 occurrences

Presently you came to the toll-gate at the top and paid its keeper five cents, or whatever large sum he demanded.

Ruth jumped out and they reached the station as the bell began to toll.

A crowd was assembled at the gate opposite its entrance, and presently the long surly toll of the death-bellthat solemn and oracular mementoannounced that a funeral was on the eve of taking place.

The village miller is not forgotten in this motley crowd,rough, brutal, drunken, big and brawn, with a red beard and a wart on his nose, and a mouth as wide as a furnace, a reveller and a jangler, accustomed to take toll thrice, and given to all the sins that then abounded.

First Billy Dale, now her brother, and, sandwiched in between, the loosed fire furies which were taking toll in bodily injury and ruinous loss.

Toll for the brave!

Toll for the brave! Brave Kempenfeldt is gone; His last sea-fight is fought; His work of glory done.

For tho' by dint of spur he got A leap in spite of fate Howbeit there was no toll at all, They could not clear the gate.

They could sit up there and take toll to their hearts' content.

His next was to destroy the corrupt practice of bribery and toll (canto 2).

Fifty priests and fifty choristers were to pray and sing over her for three days, and the bell was to toll without ceasing.

We sat down to listen to the prolonged note, as each successive toll reverberated through the expanselingering like a halo around the walls, and appearing to awaken echoes from the guardian spirits of the night.

I heard a great bombardment as they crossed the other lakes, and I knew that someone had taken toll from them.

We passed through Fish Camp, and in a short time came to the toll-gate at which point the road to the Mariposa Grove of big trees branches off.

Drums and trumpets toll the knell, And culverins the passing bell.

At the usual evening hour the chapel bell began to toll, and Thomas Newcome's hands feebly beat time.

This means conflict with the law, and the law has always taken its toll of victims.

No doubt men will some time become adjusted to the automobile as they have become adjusted to the horse, but until that time comes, it will demand its heavy toll of unfortunates.

Every new adjustment, every change of organization, every modification made by civilization, bears its toll of victims who have not been able to adjust themselves to the new order.

Yet did the glowing west with marvellous power 5 Salute us; there stood Indian citadel, Temple of Greece, and minster with its tower Substantially expresseda place for bell Or clock to toll from!

The western sky did recompence us well With Grecian Temple, Minaret, and Bower; And, in one part, a Minster with its Tower Substantially distinct, a place for Bell Or Clock to toll from.

Anon when the church bell over at Acol began a slow and monotonous toll he felt as if his every nerve must give way: as if he must laugh, laugh loudly and long at the idiocy, the ignorance of all these people who thought that they were confronted by an impenetrable mystery, whereas it was all so simple ... so very, very simple.

I had had enough experience with such things to know pretty well what was going on; the stink of spilled drinks, and profanity and indecencythere was nothing in them to toll me in from the flowery prairie.

Even now the echoes roll From the swinging bells that toll; It is midnight, now my soul Hasten; for he glideth by.

One of these roads had recently had an appalling list of accidents, and the death-toll was exceptionally high.

Do we say   tole   or  toll