"Tell" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to tell you, child." His voice was hoarse. "You are overwrought and overstrung. I have nothing to say to ...
— The Price of Things • Elinor Glyn
... my apologies for the omission! To tell you the truth, I was not watching the progress of ...
— The Odds - And Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell
... women, mother and daughter, from a Copt for about 35 pounds the two. The mother is a good cook, and the daughter is 'for his bed,' as his wife does not like to leave Cairo and her boys at school there. It does give one a sort of start to hear a most respectable magistrate tell one such a domestic arrangement. He added that it would not interfere with the Sittel Kebeer (the great lady), the black girl being only a slave, and these people never think they have children enough. ...
— Letters from Egypt • Lucie Duff Gordon
... I fear, falsify the pedigree of this fierce people, and persuade them that they are not sprung from a nation in whose veins the blood of freedom circulates. The language in which they would hear you tell them this tale would detect the imposition; your speech would betray you. ... In order to prove that Americans have no right to their liberties, we are every day endeavoring to subvert the maxims which preserve the whole spirit ...
— The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) • Various
... have been so content to receive your letter and your donation generous! Your succour will sweeten the times difficult that we are traversing; and the silver[1] you send will permit me to eat of the meat and be forceful to aid maman she has so much of labor and of pain! I will tell you, dear benefactor, that I am not the most robust But I take the oil of liver of cod-fish all the days for make myself high and good-carrying.[2] Yes, dear benefactor, I will forget never what you do, and all the nights I make a prayer for you ...
— Deer Godchild • Marguerite Bernard and Edith Serrell
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