The priest was known to be the best examiner on the island; he could begin in a gutter and end in heaven, people said.
She had no fear of that sordid impersonal goddess who rules Philistia; it mattered not to her what "people said," or whether or not they said anything about her.
People said he might have risen to be a bishop in his time, if it hadn't been for that unfortunate episode about his daughter and young Merrick.
This refusal of Joe's to talk out and explain everything was a display of the threadbare Newbolt dignity, people said, an exhibition of which they had not seen since old Peter's death.
No wonder she looked at him wild and fearful, people said.
With him in prison for a long time--people said it would be for life--the secret of her indiscretion with Morgan would be safe.
It is easy to see that he is a foreigner, a republican, and a Protestant," people said.
Necker," people said, "wants to be assisted by none but removable slaves.
Let the emperor pay for his own follies," people said; and the ill-humor of the public openly and unjustly accused the queen.
Necker wants to govern the kingdom of France like his little republic of Geneva," people said: "he is making a desert round the king; each loan is the recompense for something destroyed.
Charles Myriel, in spite of this marriage (so people said), had been the cause of much tattle.
He was affable and sad: people said, "There is a rich man who does not look proud: a lucky man who does not look happy.
The towns-people said of him, "He is cousin to the one at Grenoble.
When he died at last, people said that it was just in time to escape the penitentiary, but to see Matty you would have thought she had lost nothing short of pure perfection.
Why, Jacob Weatherby's grandfather was an honest, self-respecting tiller of the soil when mine used to fish his necktie out of the punch bowl every Saturday night, people said.
Nothing was so terrible but Tucker could get a laugh out of it, people said--not knowing that since he had learned to smile at his own ghastly failure it was an easy matter to turn the jest on universal joy or woe.
But either she had not been quite so wicked as people said, or she grew better through being shut up continually with a little innocent child who was dependent upon her for every comfort and pleasure of his life.
Of course, being a prince, people said this; but it was true besides.
But Adele was not mad as people said, and as the two families gave out.
Three years before the time now reached in this chronicle, he had married, as people said, for love, and for once people were right.
It was no wonder, people said, that Arden should have fainted that night at the Palazzo Braccio, for Laura had just accepted him.
People said he must be mad; but when it was ascertained that it was the lessee's speculation, and that I was the lessee, the accusation of madness was turned on me, but what did I care?
People said to my face,-- "We did not expect to see you here again.
People said that it was the promise of much greater things.
People said he was melancholy mad, and I suppose it was the truth; but he was mad with a kind of gentle patience very sad to see.
The King, people said, has learned nothing and forgotten nothing since he was Prince of Prussia.
Then he did not show himself, people said, very grateful to Garibaldi when the latter opened the way for the expulsion of the Bourbons from Naples, and did so much to crown Victor Emanuel King of Italy.
He was, as people said, a man who had had "every advantage.
And it seemed that yesterday evening, so people said, he had made a free use of this grand invention, said the doctor.
People said that a few of Spoelmann's servants, male and female, had already arrived at the "Spa Court" some hours before.
People said, too, that in this absent-minded expression there was a fixed look which resembled that of the serpent when fascinating his prey.
People said he was like his own music, the dreamy, melancholy themes seemed to accord so well with the pale young face of the composer.
People said that it was the expression of my face that made it interesting.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "people said" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
