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Example sentences for "often told"

  • He often told me of Commodore Decatur and William Eaton.

  • He often told me of the war with Tripoli and trouble with Algiers.

  • He often told afterwards, how much stronger I was than he, said he could mow the stoutest grass and not bend his scythe, but I had almost spoiled it.

  • I think of that ship in the picture at Magdeburg he so often told me of.

  • When his letter came to our mother, it gave just the reasons she had often told me she was sure had moved him.

  • It was true, it could hardly be a sin to wish to save my family from penury and care; but it was certainly a sin to be ambitious of worldly distinction, as Father Christopher had so often told me.

  • I often told him he ought to get out of some of his houses.

  • I know what a good time you have at home; your cousin's often told me.

  • I've often told him he ought to let you know.

  • The story is often told that as Raleigh was one day enjoying his pipe, a servant came into the room.

  • The story is often told of an Indian who returned one day to his wigwam and found that a large piece of venison had been stolen.

  • One heroic deed of the battle is often told.

  • A golfer is not pressing when he swings through as fast as he can with his club, gaining speed steadily, although he is often told that he is.

  • One is often told that "all mashies should be played with the wrist.

  • That with the right hand should not be slack, as one is so often told.

  • But just at this moment something streamed into his soul from those blue, earnest eyes, which brought back to his mind what pious people had so often told him of his mother—the beautiful and early-sainted Esther Burr.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being equivalent; both senses; ever lived; high wages; inner experience; just right; often applied; often enough; often heard; often impossible; often known; often made; often necessary; often omitted; often quoted; often repeated; often represented; often said; often seemed; often seen; often somewhat; often the; often think; often told; often very; often wonder