Presently I could tell by the sway of the ship that she was afloat, and the men began to bustle about the deck overhead, while Thorgils shouted some orders now and then.
But no man of all the village, nor the shepherds on the hills, could tell more.
That is all I know of the fight, save that it seemed that I heard some cry for quarter, for of a sudden I went down across Erpwald for no reason that I could tell.
Kindly and sweetly, as though she set down my past wrath to a good intent, she bid me sit down by her and then desired that I would repeat to her once more, in every detail, all I could tell her as touching Gotz and Gertrude.
Then he pointed out to the Queen certain noble and goodly heads, and it was my part to make known whatsoever I could tell of their possessions and their manner of trade.
Yes," he answered, "but he could tell when, and we cannot.
And lastly, he could tell stories of elephants and tiger hunts, and all The Arabian Nights of India.
The lark sang of something greater than he could tell; the wind got up, whispered at it, and lay down to sleep again; the sun was at hand to bathe the world in the light and gladness alone fit to typify the radiance of Robert's thoughts.
If you was to lead me straight away to the scaffold, colonel, I could tell you no more than the truth.
We could tell it was a single horse, and more than that, a barefooted one, coming at a hand-gallop up hill and down dale in a careless kind of manner.
She soon got to like Jim a deal too well for her own good, and used to listen to his talk about the country across the border, and such simple yarns as he could tell her, poor old Jim!
I told him shortly all I could tell him in the time.
He was real rightdown sorry for me, I could tell, though Jim and I used to laugh at him, and call him a regular old crawler of a milker's calf in the old days.
They were still within the lines of the Rolling R range, he could tell by a certain red hill that, from that height, looked small and insignificant, but red still and perfect in its contour.
Mary V could tell a tired horse as far as she could tell that it was a horse.
I could tell Mr. Reardon, and he'd put a substitute on to tend her frames," Lissy spoke up eagerly.
The chaplain of a late Bishop, whom I was to assist in writing some memoirs of his Lordship, could tell me scarcely any thing.
Taylor, in whose presence I wrote down a good deal of what he could tell; and he, at my request, signed his name, to give it authenticity.
It proved to us that we were near the encampment of bushrangers, but whether the party we were in pursuit of, was more than we could tell.
I could tell nothing by the earth, for the cattle had resorted to the brook to quench their thirst, and roll in the cool mud.
There's more I could tell you, but that is my secret, and it's too precious to talk about, even to my best friends.
That would encourage me so that I could tell you of my Dream Girl, and then you could show me how to win her.
She never gave me a hint from which I could tell who or where they were.
And being thus appealed to, he looked up and rubbed his eyes as if he had been dozing, though he never had been more wide awake, as I, who knew his attitudes, could tell.
For now I had made up my mind to let Mrs. Busk know whatever I could tell her.
I have not told you half of what I could tell, and what I am doing; but never mind, never mind; it is better that you should not know too much, my dear.
And now, miss, I think if you please to hear the rest to-morrow, I could tell it better.
But I guess there wasn't any of us could tell him," said Captain Lant in conclusion.
I could tell by the way the doctor looked that he didn't think there was much of anything the matter with her," said Miss Polly Marsh.
On the fifth day I was beyond Middelburg, so far as I could tell, for I dared not inquire nor as yet approach the stations near enough to read the names.
But, so far as we could tell, the whole place was deserted.
He was a very well-educated person, and so far as I could tell, honest and capable besides.
Perhaps Mr. Ambrose, who might be supposed to know everything connected with Mrs. Goddard, could tell him.
He shuddered as he thought that Goddard might be lying hidden in the cottage itself, for all he could tell, but he was quite sure that he ought not to know it.
He could tell when it was morning by the visit of a bewhiskered chambermaid with a deep bass voice, who carried a lighted candle and kicked him into wakefulness.
I cabled day before yesterday to ask if he could tell me the whereabouts of his son.
He waited for her to go on; the words were on her tongue's end, he could tell.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "could tell" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
