Happy the maid whom her knight calls home; It is the nightingale that I hear, The golden sun is shining clear; And I've heard tell in time past gone, Blessed is the bier that the sun shines on.
But 'tis not true, as I've heard tell, And I do not believe That when these doughty lovers fell, One laughed within her sleeve.
He heard tell I was a lanesome widdie an' no weel aff, an' he cam to speer after me.
You’s heard tell of her, sure-ly—a wery clever woman she was at getting money.
Thur never wur nar a church here as weheard tell on.
I've heard tell as Julius wur a famous hand a' back-swording.
I never seed none of it, nor anybody else as ever I heard tell on.
I've heard tell 'at you got so familiar over at the Diamond Dot, that the old man turned ya loose," sez he.
I heard tell once 'at the Bible sez, 'If thy eye offends thee, pluck it out.
From what I've heard tell of history, this has been about the way that the white race has managed from the very beginning.
We had two or three little creeks to cross, and they were pretty full, except at the crossing places, and rippled over the stones and sparkled in the sun like the brooks we'd heard tell of in the old country.
Heard tell of gunfighters knotchin' their irons for each man they take in a shootout.
I heard tellas how one blue belly, he chawed the stuff dry an' then drank water; it bloated him up like a cow in green cane.
There's others grumbling for things you neverheard tell of before.
But I ain't heard tell of any sort of unrest gettin' busy.
I ain't a word to say against the stuff I've heard tell of Labrador.
Then I heard tell that on the morrow one brother the other avenged on the slayer with the edge of the sword, whereas Ongentheow [72] seeketh out Eofor.
Nor have I heard tell of many men giving to others on any ale-bench, four gifts gold-decked, in friendlier fashion.
Then I heard tell how in that barrow one at his own doom [78] plundered the hoard, that old work of giants, and bore away on his arms both cups and dishes.
So then as soon as I heard tell, I up wid me and come after him.
Glory be to goodness, then, that I've heard tell of him at last," he said.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heard tell" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
