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Example sentences for "tell truth"

  • To tell truth, he had been expecting Robin any moment during these last ten days, and had wondered why he had not come.

  • This time it brought an unpleasant surprise with it, for to tell truth he had imagined himself secure against assault.

  • A transparent prevarication, but one it was impossible to set aside; nor, to tell truth, did Paul wish to set it aside.

  • Do physicians in Avignon wear caps of red and yellow and robes of black fur and strings of great black pearls that, to tell truth, I coveted sorely?

  • Nor, to tell truth, when I got home again could I remember all he said, save that it was of some frightful ill which comes upon the world from the East and will leave it desolate.

  • As all know, the saint's beard goes in relics, and to tell truth, I would be better pleased to leave Paradise to those who wish for it.

  • To tell truth it had quite a fine tone, especially when all the wind in its wheezy bellows was sent into one note.

  • To tell truth, Punoo's estimate of the harmonium was vague and misty on more points than this.

  • Not to boast, darling old son, I tell truth; I am only happy when my heart is beating near you.

  • To tell truth, it is the advocate I wish to rebuke, and to praise the adversary.

  • So I reasoned in exclamations, being, to tell truth, tired of seeming to be what I was not quite, of striving to become what I must have divined that I never could quite attain to.

  • To tell truth, he never climbed up for that purpose to the tower without a breathlessness not altogether to be accounted for by the steepness of the stairs.

  • George, who, to tell truth, was beginning to feel the pangs of hunger, hesitated between awaking his guest and taking his bath.

  • To tell truth, the only person in that up-stairs world who was satisfied at the new turn affairs had taken was Gwen Boynton.

  • Sure some devil possesseth thee to tell truth or lies at thy own pleasure.

  • To tell truth, even Parbutti did not care to drive the stunned look from Durga's face, lest it should be replaced by seven devils; so she was left alone.

  • This ownership had much to do with the English lady's patience in regard to Kirpo who, to tell truth, had been learning the alphabet for five years.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    brown gravy; cement mortar; commonly supposed; foreign states; general very; good sermon; handle them; keep ourselves; knew you; said excitedly; talk about something else; tell anybody; tell fortunes; tell her; tell lies; tell mamma; tell mother; tell myself; tell stories; tell tales; tell them; tell where; tell you right here; telling fortunes; telling them; tells himself