"Tell" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had my bearings so that I could either reach the house or a path leading to it. I stretched myself out to rest a few moments, and suddenly the scene was completely shut in by a fog. [Irene put out her hand and touched King's.] I couldn't tell where the sun was, or in what direction the hut lay, and the danger was that I would wander off on a spur, as the lost usually do. But I knew where the ravine was, for I was still on the ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... called defiance. When she grew up she showed, therefore, the stronger nature of the two, and her father, as was his wont, gave way. He laughed at his little tyrant, whose great delight was to ruffle his thick curling hair. When, in his half-abstracted way, the old gentleman would tell her stones which threatened to end unpleasantly, she would scold him well; but when, from some cause or other, he was really displeased with her, it affected her so much that the impression remained for a long time. Her nature was bright and joyous, but she yearned ...
— Garman and Worse - A Norwegian Novel • Alexander Lange Kielland
... fun of me by all means. You know I get carried away, as you tell me. And your Montbreton—but how silly I am, to be sure. He doesn't belong to us, this man, does he? Oh, if it were one of my family who had done such a thing, such ...
— Rene Mauperin • Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt
... he was by now—Lidbetter. Difficult to tell the age of that type, so discreet and equable. He might be ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 4, 1914 • Various
... Chamberlain's walk, which, as we have said, was contrived in the upper part of the structure, and formed a sort of external gallery, three persons might be discerned; and to save the reader any speculation, we will tell him that these persons were the Duke of Lennox (Lord Chamberlain), the Conde de Gondomar (the Spanish lieger-ambassador), and the Lord Roos. In front of the great gates were stationed four warders with the royal badge woven in gold on the front and back of their crimson ...
— The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 - An Historical Romance • W. Harrison Ainsworth
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