Here are three drawers that have not been opened yet; each take one, and choose something from it for me to tell about," said Madam, quite excited at the unusual interest in her treasures.
Oh, tell about it," begged Maud, when the general laugh at Polly's picture had subsided.
When asked to tell about Mr. Moore, her owner, and his family Jennie Kendricks stated that although her master owned and operated a large plantation, he was not considered a wealthy man.
I don't want to tell about him," Helen answered, "I would rather you would tell a story about him.
If I were to try to tell you," I said, "all the interesting and useful and delightful things that there are to tell about Winchester, I should have to go first and learn the most of them for myself.
Indeed there are so many useful insects that help make or fertilize the soil by grinding up earth and burying things in it, that even this chapter, which is rather long, as you see, can't begin to tell about all of them.
Jane, who had noticed a jellyfish on the beach that morning, asked the teacher to tell about them.
She was a bit rude because she had wanted to tell about a gull herself.
Perhaps he knew about the vagaries of my Aunt Caroline; anyhow, he would have a fantastic tale to tell about me, and was going to exploit it to the limit!
This gentleman is a man of remarkable gifts, and does not take money for them; so, if you are going to tell about him at all, do it in a dignified way.
Then, in very many less words than I have used to tell about it to you, Louise, I told him what I had done, with Roxanne standing with her arm across my shoulders, that trembled with excitement.
I never dreamed boys could get together so many remarkable things and make it so interesting to tell about them.
He paused, as if not right sure that he was going to tell about everything, and as he looked at us we did look like a basket of little silly puppies with mouths and eyes wide open--the Idol most of all.
Now I have something more to tell about them; for when they heard that the United States was at war with England, they tried their old tricks again, capturing American sailors and selling them for slaves.
I have also a story to tell about the Constitution in 1811.
Tell about Phyllis--and the Courteneys--and the Quakeress.
But I ain't hawngry to tell about heh, naw 'bout de Quak'ess.
But what I started to tell about is something that happened between the neighboring bee-houses quite different from the troubles of the bees finding their way home.
Well, Karl," after a silence, "that picture I have been working on this winter is hard to tell about because it is in a field all new to me.
For instance, if in painting a picture you had to tell about it to some one who did not look at it, wouldn't that make your own mental image more clear, and so help make it more real to you?
But, so that I won't talk too much, I won't tell about a lot of humorous and interesting things that happened to me with my first master.
I just want to tell about how we separated, and be done with him.
The way I did this was I played some devilish tricks on him, and I'll tell about some of them, even though I didn't come out on top every time.
He has something to tell about," cried Sun Bird, pointing toward a solitary horseman who was galloping toward the camp.
The Uncapapas have gone away to tell about us, but Short Bear will take us to Curly Horse.
Now you have seen something to tell about," laughed Kicking Bull, as he threw his arm about White Otter and drew himself upon the pony.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tell about" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
