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Example sentences for "cannot tell"

  • But now whether he means really that the Duke, as he told me the other day, do think the Fleete too small for him to take or that he would not have him go, I swear I cannot tell.

  • Upon my word I cannot tell," replied Mr. Carlyle.

  • I cannot tell; he made no outward sign either of satisfaction or grief.

  • How the conviction arose at first, I cannot tell you; I do not think she knows herself.

  • I have been awake all night, thinking where I can go, but I cannot tell; I have not a friend in the wide world.

  • What could have prompted him to make us so early and so unseasonable a visit I cannot tell.

  • Whether the change was due to the orders I had left with the gardener and the rest of the servants, or to my own state of mind, I cannot tell.

  • Sad people always like running water and the sound of it at night, though I cannot tell why.

  • I cannot tell why I gazed upon them, on this occasion, with more than ordinary attention, unless it were that such figures were seldom seen by me except on the road or field.

  • But I yet, without his direction, cannot tell how it is to be made use of.

  • Whether these will be enough to break the Peace upon, or no, he cannot tell; but I perceive the certainty of peace is blown over.

  • And so whether he did fly or no I cannot tell; but Tom Porter showed H.

  • Whether the fellow do this out of kindness or knavery, I cannot tell; but it is pretty to observe.

  • It may be one hundred and seventy miles, I cannot tell to a furlong or two, especially as I lost my way more than a dozen times; but at any rate there in six days I was, and most kindly they received me.

  • But whether we were afraid or not, I am sure I cannot tell, because it is so long ago; but I think that had something to do with it.

  • I cannot tell," said the young man; "all that I can tell you now is the very opposite of what I felt seven years ago.

  • I cannot tell you, not having even been able to get sight of him; my post had been appointed in the garden, and I remained at my post: only the affair was related to me as I repeat it.

  • How all the names found their way to the bottom of a hat I cannot tell.

  • How many hours passed away thus I cannot tell, but after a time a loud peal of laughter burst upon my ear Some one else, then, was going mad, I thought; but the idea did not rouse me in the least.

  • How it was that we did not all become raving maniacs, I cannot tell.

  • Whatever may have been the meaning of the manoeuvre, I cannot tell; it did not seem to have resulted in any improvement in the ship's pace; still it must be owned there was not much wind to speed us along.

  • Nor did I, therefore I cannot tell you, Macumazahn.

  • I cannot tell one of them from the other.

  • I cannot tell," he repeated, his breast heaving with mighty sobs.

  • Ranald, in strange confusion, "I cannot tell you.

  • Oh, auntie, I cannot tell," cried Maimie, putting her face in her hands.

  • I cannot tell, but it does not matter much.

  • My mother also called me by this name from the cradle; but whether because of the moistness of my brain, or because of the softness of my heart, I cannot tell.

  • I cannot tell where he learned so much patience; I am sure it was neither from Monsieur nor from me.

  • I cannot tell how it was that the King and her parents, both of whom had consented to the marriage, did not oppose its dissolution.

  • She cannot quite persuade herself that she was ever Queen, because she knew the Queen too well, who always called her daughter, and treated her better than her sisters; I cannot tell why, because she was not the most amiable of them.

  • This makes me believe that she has some project in her head, but I cannot tell what it is.

  • I cannot tell, can only hint, the things that darted through me then.

  • He came so early that I cannot tell when or how I began to read him, but it must have been before I was ten years old.

  • I cannot tell how I came out of this craze, but neither could any of the critics who led me into it, I dare say.

  • He cannot tell me from a monster," she fumed, letting herself sink into a faded tapestry chair, standing forgotten amid a pile of mouldering cushions.

  • I will tell him that your paganism has made spells over me so that I cannot tell a holy relique from an ale-skin; and a bedridden woman looks to me like two strapping yeomen.

  • If he fail us, I cannot tell what we shall do,--now that the second scullion has been so foolish as to get himself killed in some way.

  • Whether these will be enough to break the peace upon, or no, he cannot tell; but I perceive the certainty of peace is blown over.

  • How true this is I cannot tell, there being no newes of it at all at Court, as I am told late by one come thence, so that I hope it is not so.

  • And so whether he did fly or no I cannot tell: but Tom Porter shewed H.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cannot avoid; cannot bear; cannot bring; cannot comprehend; cannot conceive; cannot consent; cannot expect; cannot find; cannot forbear; cannot hope; cannot imagine; cannot know; cannot recall; cannot refuse; cannot remember; cannot represent; cannot say; cannot stand; cannot stay; cannot write; dramatic work; horse should; immense height; realize that; strong froth; sweet smile