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Example sentences for "tauld"

Lexicographically close words:
tatu; taua; taucht; taught; taughte; taunt; taunted; taunting; tauntingly; taunts
  1. An' no forgetting wabster Charlie, I'm tauld he offers very fairly.

  2. And bless your bonnie lasses baith, I'm tauld they're loosome kimmers!

  3. Though I'm tauld the young fellow's greatly improved sin' his hurt; but that winna mak' him handier.

  4. I'm tauld they hae gran' principles in the auld settlements, an' fecht ane anither first-rate every election.

  5. Lord, man, I got a grip of ane of their attorneys in Carlisle, and he tauld me that there wasna a lawyer in England ony mair than himsell that kend the nature of a multiple-poinding!

  6. I have heard their communing so often tauld ower, that I almost think I was there mysell, though I couldna be born at the time.

  7. His lairdship smiled pleasantly, and tauld me to fetch it after him up to his chamber.

  8. Na, Miss, sae I tauld him; but he said his orders were no to call his master the morn', but to wait till he heard his bell ring.

  9. It is tauld me the day, sir knight, 55 Ye've done me treasonie.

  10. O wha is this has done this deed, And tauld the king o' me, To send us out at this time of the year, To sail upon the sea?

  11. But I wonder who has been sae base, As tauld the king o' mee: Even tho' hee ware my ae brither, An ill death mat he dee.

  12. I wonder wha 's tauld that gay ladie The fashion into our countrie.

  13. I thin tauld them about all I was afraid of, so they jumped on the backs of the horses without waiting to cheer Tim or carry him round the town.

  14. What it was I didn't find out for some time, when one of the boys tauld me that Dan intended to get hold of one of the lawyers, or a magistrate, or a gintleman of consequence, and to threaten to hang him if Tim was not set free.

  15. Haena I tauld ye that I hae never seen his face sinsyne?

  16. Ane, to ken your mind, wad need to be tauld it every hour o' the day, and then cast up the account at the year's end.

  17. She tauld me naething, but said she was weel.

  18. That I never tauld a deliberate lee in my life.

  19. God knows what Teresa's part was to hae been--she tauld it not to me--but Heaven took the conclusion in its ain hand.

  20. I have tauld ye your mother's purpose, and I ken Teresa was a fiend.

  21. And though ye gaed and tauld her yer ain sel, my leddy wad lay a' the wyte upo' you nane the less.

  22. Na, sir; but I tauld them what most people mind as well, that Mister Bagenal Daly sent me.

  23. I saw by his face that he was found out, and so I laid my hand on his shoulder, and said, 'Ye ha tauld me ane lee; ye maun tak care no to tell me anither.

  24. I tauld ye that ye would find nae Jacobites here.

  25. My father the deacon used aye to laugh when he tauld me how that by-word came up.

  26. O wha is this has done this deed, And tauld the king o me, To send us out, at this time of the year, To sail upon the sea?

  27. Had I my horse and harness gude, And riding as I wont to be, It shou'd have been tauld this hundred year, The meeting of my king and me!

  28. He was no sae drunk at the time he tauld us.

  29. Maybe he'll take pity on her, maybe he wont; the misguided lassie will be sairly teazed by him from a' he tauld us in his cups.

  30. The captennis wiff to Sanct Jhonstoun scho yeid, And to Schyr Garrate scho tauld this felloune deid; 520 Alss till hyr son quhat hapnyt was be cass.

  31. Ingliss wardans till London past but mar, And tauld the king off all thair gret mysfar; 940 How Wallace coud Scotland fra thaim reduce, And how he had resawyt Eduuard the Bruce.

  32. Quhen thai had seyne this gud knycht was so ner, Weyle he him knew, and tauld thaim quhat he was; Meruaille he had quhat gart him hiddyr pass, Maide him gud cheyr of meyttis fresche and fyne.

  33. This spy he fled, till Durisder can pass; Tauld that captane, that thai had hapnyt sa.

  34. That taill full meit thow has tauld be thi sell; “To thi desyr thow sall me nocht compell.

  35. Thus mowit he, with mony ryoll man, 670 On to the king, and tauld him his entent.

  36. Wallace raturnd towart the court agayne; In the mursyde sone with his eyme he mett, 55 And tauld how thai the way for his man sett: Fol.

  37. Went till his eyme, and tauld him of this drede.

  38. Scho tauld [to] him hir tresoun till ane end, As I haiff said; quhat nedis mair legend?

  39. Agayn he past, and tauld the gud Dowglace, Quhilk drew him sone in till a preway place.

  40. But the captain wadna hark to my rede when I tauld him naught but dool wad cooin o' taking Mungo.

  41. I tauld the captain 'twas a' the faut o' Maxwell.

  42. But the gentleman that bocht it lookit at it, and then sent it back, and tauld me to auction it all ower again.

  43. Talk sense, man," I tauld him, wi' a laugh.

  44. They were sair angry at old Harry Lauder that nicht he tauld them what he thocht of their generosity, but it maybe he did them gude, for a' that!

  45. Or--I could do what a' my friends tauld me was madness and worse to attempt.

  46. I keened in that moment what they'd all meant when they'd tauld me a London audience was different frae any ever I'd clapped een upon.

  47. I tauld ye I wasna that dooms stupid, if it cam to lifting things.

  48. Ye're no obliged to ken him; and I wadna hae tauld ye, only I feared ye wad ken him in the morning.

  49. But if Miss Edith kend that he was living, and if she were standing before the very minister wi' Lord Evandale when it was tauld to her, I'se warrant she wad say No when she suld say Yes.


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