They didn't quite dasst dew that, but thar ain't no tellin what they'll come tew yit.
An afore we could say nothing, we wuz so flustered, she up an says as haow she hearn them ossifers tew her haouse tellin haow they wuz gonter s'prise ye in the mornin, an so she come ter tell us, thinkin we mout git word ter ye.
Auntie's been tellin me that I maun luik to my hert, so as no to tyne't to ye a'thegither!
By tryin to conceal it, ye may ruin us baith; by tellin me, we may hae a chance o' bein saved.
But, whatever they are, ye needna hesitate sae muckle in tellin them to me, for I never telled a tale o' yours owre again in my life.
But mony a man loses his wife, and mony a shepherd his sheep, without tellin a doctor o' their loss.
I walked down the isle in my usual dignified stile, politely tellin the people as I parsed along to keep their seats.
Why do you come here tellin us niggers is our brothers, and brandishin your umbrellers round us like a lot of lunytics?
There's a parcel o' gipsies there tellin fortunes, an lots o' foak ha gone ower there to-day.
I s' tak my aith o' that, whaever took the tellin o' 't.
Dad sez it is becaus sugar has turned to dimonds, so we have sirup insted and it is pretty good, the pancakes I was tellin you about was made with that.
And he goes on tellin how french cookin agrees with him and the censer didnt cut that out, but he cut out the best part I guess.
Didn't I tell you at the outset that I didn't; but you was tellin about what you had done in the way of splittin things, an I was reminded of that story.
But wen I got to Boston, I was struck all up in a heep by gettin a telliegraff from Linkin, tellin me not to go eny further till I heerd from him.
He had nothing to do, an ginnerally went up an down the river on the boat, spending his time in fiddlin, an tellin stories.
To the Editers of The Dabook: The very next day after I writ you my last letter, I got one from Linkin, tellin me I must cum on without fail.
I see at once that I must turn doctor agin, or there was no tellin how soon he might kick the bucket.
One day Melissy giv Miss Huggins a terribel slap by tellin her that she guessed she made believe being so pious jest to ketch Elder Sniffles.
My old master was good to all his niggers and I'm tellin you I was raised up with his chullun an him and old mistress was good to me.
I tellin you bout how my white folks would do, but dem what had a rough Massa, dey just got one day.
I tellin yuh jes lak dat wuz, de jedgment ain' ne'er been no closer come heah den when dat shake was.
Yes, mam, I tellin de truth, honey, dese chillun keeps me settin here listenin wid all my ears en lookin wid all my eyes, but dey is right sorta entertainin like.
It just like I tellin you, de people fare wid abundance of everything in dem days.
I never been treated exactly as de other plantation peoples was as it just like I tellin you, I be round de white folks mostly.
I tellin you, when I starts to Heaven, I want to take my time gettin dere.
Cose de people be more intelligent in learnin dese days, but I'm tellin you dere a lot of other things got to build you up 'sides learnin.
I tellin you, dese chillun just gets everything off my mind.
I tellin you, I betcha I was 30 years old in de shake.
Lizzie--Look out now, I'll whip you fortellin a story.
Joa jumpt up (for he wor varry little warse for his hurt,) an' tellin Bessy to put on her duds prepared to leeave.
I tellin you, it been a long time fore I got over dat thing, too, 'cause I was scared most to death.
Well, it like I tellin you, everybody didn' hate dey white folks.
I tellin you my boss was a good man en he had a big plantation wid six or seven hundred acres of land, but he didn' have to mind to see 'bout none of de work.
The sargent is always tellin me to pick up his feet.
The minit we sat down to dinner Joe started tellin one of his stories about how he almost got killed one time.
He says Napoleun had the same thing happen to him and was always tellin how an army traveled on his stummick.
I was tellin them about the war and when it was goin to end.
It just like I tellin you, dat been a day to speak bout.
I tellin you corn bread was sweet to me in dat day en time as pound cake ever been.
Of course I dont want you to worry cause that would make me worry an theres no tellin what that would bring on.
The doboy oficers was all sittin around tellin him how good the Inglish artilery was.
A couple of doboys got tellin each other what kind of a dinner theyd order if they was some place where they wasnt.
The oficers just walk around shakin hands an tellin each other what good shots they are.
There was no use tellin him Id seen the darn thing every day for two weeks.
Everybody spends there time tellin how they used to shake dice with death every mornin before breakfast.
Its no use tellin you to rite I never get your letters.
Like I been tellin you, some of dem beg me to come en live wid dem, but my God, I can' struggle wid dem chillun no more after I done wash baby breeches all my best days, so to speak.
It de blessed truth I'm tellin you, dere some of dese people right bout here now got dese transfer driver gwine down in de country to get people to do somethin for dem all de time.
I tellin you I been good as ever was born from a 'oman.
It just like I tellin you, it de way of de past, everything had to be carried out right on Dr.
Now, I tellin you what come out of Pa Cudjo mouth.
I tellin you when he come back, he come back wid de Yankees.
My gran'pappy been worth $1,000 en it de Lord's truth I tellin you, he drown fore he let em whip him.
I tellin you, when us been chillun comin up, people sho never live like dey do dis day en time.
Now Cap'n, dat is de truf I am tellin you bout dat stealin, when me en Delia wus stole.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tellin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
