In the mound below they could at first distinguish nothing human--could not have told, in the dim chaos, limbs from broken rafters.
The blue cloud kept in sight, and by and by he knew it was the sea he saw, though how or at what moment the knowledge came to him he could not have told.
He might have sat there half an hour or half a day, he could not have told which, when he heard the voice of his kind friend calling him.
Hannah cried heartily, but for the life of her, could not have told whether it was for joy or sorrow.
Yet he could not have told, because he did not know, why this question caused his brow to burn as though it had been smitten by a red-hot iron.
It affected him to recklessness, though he could not have told why it was so, or in what form of recklessness he might indulge.
He thought, afterward, that he had almost anticipated it, although he could not have told why he should do so.
He could not have told why he instantly and involuntarily said, "Beg your pardon, Senora.
He could not have told why it seemed to him difficult to say Ramona.
He could not have told; but he did not wish to speak of it to her.
He could not have told what it was that caused him to lift up his hands there in the faint light, groping for something to which to cling, for some higher power that should ease the terrible aching of his heart.
Charmides alone remained upright--why, he could not have told.
He left her presence with perplexity and doubt in his mind; though how it had entered in he could not have told.
He could not have told why he felt that he must open it.
He could not have told when it was that it came to him--He lifted his head a minute and looked at it.
He ate of the food, but he could not have told if he were satisfied or hungry when he got up from the table, and he worked like a nigger till the evening.
Sandu rose at daybreak the following day, but he could not have told if he had slept, or whether his thoughts had tormented him all night.
He went to dinner with the other men; he followed them; had anyone asked him whither he was going he could not have told them.
Why he thought of the old gentleman as a powerful friend he could not have told, for in fact he knew almost nothing about him.
Thus dismissed Myles got out of the office somehow, though how he could not have told.
He could not have told how or why it was, but Sydow was more than ever conscious to-night of the discord sounding through creation, vainly seeking, as it has done for centuries, for its solution.
How long he had been standing thus he could not have told, when he heard a deep voice beside him say, "C'est rudement fort, tu sais.
Barrère with a certain surprise, but hecould not have told why.
My one frantic desire was to get away at all hazards from that dreadful dwelling, though from what I fled I could not have told.
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