Which preposition to use with telling
Beyond these, there was nothing to tell of the things that were hidden beneath.
And there seated in the opening of our little tent, I began the strange tale of The House on the Borderland (for such was the title of the MS.); this is told in the following pages.
Even last yearthe Oyamahe told about her three days ahead.
I cannot refrain from relating a piquant little anecdote told to me by a French colleague, who had occasion to make an arrest, and came unexpectedly on his man.
It's telling on you.
I remember quite well his telling of an interesting conversation with him.
Mrs Ottley listened imperturbably to Edith's story, a somewhat incoherent concoction, but told with dash and decision, that Bruce had been ordered away for a sea-voyage for fear of a nervous breakdown.
I could tell by the tone of his voice that he was strung high, and guessed that his triumph needed an audience.
In 1743 he set out from Epworth to Grimsby; but was told at the ferry he could not cross the Trent owing to the storm.
It may come, but it shall be hoisted on the Rhine, and, helpless tide waiters, we cannot tell from which side it shall come.
" New York American:"'America's National Game' tells for the first time the history of the national game of base ball.
"It is now pretty generally admitted," says the author of Contemporary Evolution, "with regard to Christianity and theism that the arguments really telling against the first, are in their logical consequences fatal also to the second, and that a Deus Unus, Remunerator once admitted, an antecedent probability for a revelation must be conceded.
Nor were there any tales to be told under the tree.
"Once upon a time there was a little piggy and he was right in a big green and white fire and he didn't hurt hisself, and (told as a tremendous secret) he touched a fire with his handie.
He wants to be told without askingtold, I mean, that each of the stories, those that have come to him, is a fraud and a libel.
And this was told unto the king.
Robin Hood and the Tinker NOW IT WAS TOLD BEFORE how two hundred pounds were set upon Robin Hood's head, and how the Sheriff of Nottingham swore that he himself would seize Robin, both because he would fain have the two hundred pounds and because the slain man was a kinsman of his own.
You told vs of some suite.
But there is no dog story better told than this and none that appeals more to our deeper sympathies.
Because of the obvious gain in lying in times of extremity, and because of the manifest peril or cost of truth-telling in an emergency, attempts have been made, by interested or prejudiced persons, all along the ages, to reconcile the general duty of adhering to an absolute standard of right, with the special inducements, or temptations, to depart from that standard for the time being.
General Godwin was told over the telephone that the infantry attack was held up and that his brigade would advance to take Mughar.
They do not tell out of school.
After the engagement, this story was told through the victorious ranks by the witnesses of her valor, and a medal was awarded the child by acclamation.
The setting of "Ali Baba" shows the four characteristics of all these Perso-Arabian tales: it has to do with town life, not country life; it presupposes one faith, the Mohammedan; it shows a fondness for magic; and it takes for granted an audience interested not in moral or ethical distinctions but in story-telling for story-telling's sake.
And, in verity, the dreadfulness of that time doth shake me now to think upon, and you also, if that you have gotten my tellings to your hearts, so that your human sympathy doth be with me.