But our wives reason, and reason in this way, and that is why I said that, when a man does not live as a man, he is beneath the animal.
I said that I trusted to his taste, and I advised my wife to do the same.
The brother of Troukhatchevsky, answering my questions as to whether he frequented disreputable houses, said that a respectable man does not go where he may contract a disease, in a low and unclean spot, when one can find an honest woman.
He said that if nothing occurred to mar the prospect we should have a beautiful night, for on this line of tactics we could hold the tree against the whole country-side.
I said that if there were many, we could do but little for them; and it would not be wise for us to trust ourselves among them, anyway.
And he said that I should be called the wedded wife of Anchises, and should bear you goodly children.
And it is said that, because this reply was specially admired, Hesiod won the tripod (at the funeral games of Amphidamas).
Under whatever form of government we live, it can always be said that le mort saisit le vif; that is, that inheritance and succession will last for ever, whoever may be the recognized heir.
In this sense, it may be said that language is not the work of man, since it is not the work of his mind.
If he obeys no longer because the king commands, but because the king demonstrates the wisdom of his commands, it may be said that henceforth he will recognize no authority, and that he has become his own king.
But legislation is advanced no farther by its announcement and demonstration, than is medicine when it is said that it is the business of physicians to cure the sick.
Breakfast over, he said that he must now go and harness his horses, as it was high time for him to return to his inn.
He said," explained Mr. Stebbins deliberately, "he said that an allowance was the proper thing.
And I said that I would do anything if--if we could only be like mother and father.
He said that I was in delirious hysterics, and that I had struggled with his mother and himself, because they tried to keep me quiet, and prevent the servants hearing.
When he said that he must spend her money on the estate, she had acquiesced without comment, because that insured his going away.
He said that a man of his rank must have resources, and that it wasn't dignified for him to have to ask his wife or his wife's father for money when he wanted it.
Nearly every decade of years throughout the Middle Ages saw Europe plunged into alarm by appearances of this sort, but the culmination seems to have been reached in 1456.
Winchell and Woodrow, and of the Beyrout professors, with authorities cited, see my chapter on The Fall of Man and Anthropology.
Although this theory was drawn from Scripture, it was also, as we have seen, the result of an evolution of theological thought begun long before the scriptural texts on which it rested were written.
Still, to do him justice, it must be said that in some parts of his exegesis the strong sense which was one of his most striking characteristics crops out in a way very refreshing.
To the honour of the Puritan clergy of New England, it should be said thatmany of them were Boylston's strongest supporters.
He asks for work, which he will set to even on his empty stomach and in his ragged uniform, if so be that you will give him something for it, but his hands are idle, for no one employs him.
In this three-fold organisation lies the open secret of the solution of the Social Problem.
It may be said that to shut out men and women from that liberty which is their universal birthright would be cruel.
Nevertheless, forty years have passed since Carlyle said that, and we seem to be no nearer the attainment of the four-footed standard for the two-handed worker.
He said that he had found something much rarer--a white cat!
He said that as for sending me bound, his brother knew it was impossible.
Who was the blundering idiot who said that "fine words butter no parsnips"?
He ran North, and reaching Arnes before the day had quite broken, said thathe had killed Thorgeir and that Flosi must protect him.
He told her the truth, said that he wished to see a priest and asked her to send for one.
It is said thatat that encounter Grettir slew six men and Hallmund twelve.
He said that no blood-money should be accepted; that with their connections they were powerful enough to carry through a sentence of either banishment or death on the slayer.
When Thorgeir heard that he was banished, he said that if he had his way, those who had brought it about should be repayed in full before it was over.
He said that when he was through in the fields he would speak to his father about the matter.
He said that he had never heard of such a thing before in his life, and that always he had understood that those who ventured far from land never returned; for how could they find their way when they could see no land to steer for?
I have heard it said that there is more than one rock and shoal in this bay.
A week ago you would not have said that," said Sturgis shrewdly.
Her lover killed his wife, and it is said that she is not innocent herself.
It shall never be said that a man of Lemnos, a son of the old race, fell back when Death threatened.
The King (who told it me) said that it had, and quoted a scrap of Latin, for he had been at Oxford in his youth before he fell heir to his kingdom.
He said that he had come to me because we were old friends.
I said that it seemed to me a reasonable enough argument, but that it got one very little way forward.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "said that" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
