Which preposition to use with told
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.
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.
Nor were there any tales to be told under the tree.
"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.
"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.
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.
In sand the Ford cars have performed wonderful feats, but remarkable as was the record of that cheap American car with usit helped us very considerably to win the waryou could never tell within hours how long a journey would take off the wire roads.
The latter has never been told until now.
The lovely face has a history, I was told after supper, and she is a girl of character.
But I mean what I'm telling ye, pard; I'm letting them down mighty easy, Perhaps they may think it is hard.