The ayes pass into the lobby at the Speaker's right and the noes into that at his left, and all are counted by four tellersdesignated by the Speaker, two from each side, as the members return to their places in the chamber.
And they had there the best heroes of Lochlinn, the best story-tellers of Alba, the best bards of Eirinn.
But the chief story-tellers appear to have been the tailors and shoemakers, who were literally journeymen, going from house to house in search of work.
His story took hold of the hearts of his fellow-countrymen; and that the story-tellers might never forget it, it has been emblazoned by the painters in a thousand ways.
But even more truculent methods are represented by the story-tellers as resorted to free the afflicted household.
The Welsh fairies are curiously youthful compared with these hoary infants, which is all the more remarkable when the daring exaggerations of Cambrian story-tellers are considered.
It could not have arisen before the people were so far civilised as to have among them artistic singers or story-tellers who gave fine and forcible expression to the acts they celebrated or the scenes they described.
These were followed by the minstrels and other tellers of tales written for the people.
But as I listened, I was moved by the strange contrast between the poverty of the tellers and the splendours of the tales.
But this being the last day, they all had tobacco--story-tellers and all.
Though I had been in company with clairvoyants in many instances, I had never, before my return to Paris in the late summer of 1860, entered any one of those places in which professional fortune-tellers carried on their business.
The charm of the primitive story-tellers has given the tale inimitable morning-dew freshness.
The character of the tellers is shown however in the qualities of the tale.
Any charm of the story-tellers of the ages has entered into the body of the tale, which has become an objective presentment of a reality that concentrates on itself and keeps personality out of sight.
Old Tamil books refer to the Koravas as fortune-tellers to kings and queens, and priests to Subrahmanya.
Their women are fortune-tellers and ballad singers.
And he found at least a semblance of this unity in ties of family or friendship uniting the tellers of them.
The tellers against Thurloe were Annesley and Sir William Waller, but he was supported by Sir John Evelyn of Wilts and Colonel Hutchinson.
Gentlemen of the Continental Congress, I shall appoint Benjamin Rush of Pennsylvania, Samuel Chase of Maryland, and Edward Rutledge of South Carolina as tellers for this election and they will wait upon you for your ballots for the committee.
Ballots are gathered by the tellers who report the result to the president of the Congress.
The prices charged by fortune tellers for their services vary from 25 cents to $5.
That I am an associate of Gypsies and fortune-tellers I do not deny," he says, "and why should I be ashamed of their company when my Master mingled with publicans and thieves.
Of the same age with Murkertach, the reigning Prince at Cashel was Kellachan, one of the heroes of the latter Bards and Story-tellers of the South.
They find the winter, though spent in a warm climate, very long and wearisome, and after dark employ female professional story-tellers to entertain them with love stories.
What a theme for the gipsies of the press--the fortune-tellers of the time!
Accordingly, Mr. Jameson and myself have visited several of the fortune-tellers and practitioners of the occult sciences in which we had reason to believe Miss Gilbert was interested.
As in ancient times we find Achilles singing to his lyre, so the English musicians and story-tellers were originally amateurs of high rank.
Singers and players, and better story-tellers than Cheytu the sweeper.
Then the necessity for amusing the doll led Nuttia into lingering round the little knots of story-tellers who sat far on into the night, discoursing of jins and ghouls, of faithful lovers, virtuous maidens, and the beauties of holiness.
As they assured me fervently that they did, I went on to explain that my only desire in this case was to have the truth; that no one should suffer by it; that contrariwise the tellers should receive bucksheesh.
Although Hina was a goddess and had a family possessing miraculous power, it never entered the mind of the Hawaiian legend tellers to endow her with ease in producing wonderful results.
The Rua-nui story-tellers of New Zealand say that Maui's anger was aroused against Ira-waru because he ate all the bait when they went fishing, and they could catch no fish after paddling out to the fishing grounds.
The marquis of Camden, one of the tellers of the Exchequer, voluntarily resigned the fees and accepted only the regular salary of £2500.
In 1812 an attack was made upon the 'tellers of the Exchequer.
These fortune-tellers seldom let anything serious pass without a notice of some sort or other.
Are such things as fortune-tellers known in England, Mr. Bulstrode?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tellers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
