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Example sentences for "telling them"

  • St. Severinus took leave of his monks, telling them he should never see them more in this world.

  • He also checked the pride and wicked obstinacy of the heretics, telling them {458} that they might discern the true church by the multitude of its martyrs.

  • I took my little daughter on my knee and lavished my caresses on her, and so left them, telling them that we should see each other again in the course of three weeks or a month at latest.

  • Bragadin and of his two friends, telling them that I was going to be away for several weeks on important business.

  • We ate like four, and afterwards they made up an impromptu bed and we went to sleep, telling them to call me as soon as a carriage and four drew up.

  • Desarmoises her father's letter, and I said farewell for the present, telling them that I would go to my own room till supper-time.

  • I promised to stop at Lyons, and to oblige Desarmoises to desist from any steps he might be taking against them, telling them I had a power over him which would compel him to obey.

  • I embraced the lover, and then more amorously I performed the same office for the mistress, and shewed them my purse full of gold, telling them it was at their service.

  • Burnworth took this occasion to exhort them to keep together, telling them that as they were armed with three or four pistols apiece, and short daggers under their clothes, a small force would not venture to attack them.

  • Early the next morning, he arose and addressed them, telling them, that he would now commence trading with them.

  • But not satisfied with this, they endeavoured to incite the populace against me, by telling them that I was a sorcerer, and a companion of Gypsies and witches, and their agents even called me so in the streets.

  • Murtagh, then turning to his guests, asked them what they meant by insulting an anointed priest; telling them that it was not for the likes of them to avenge the wrongs of Ireland.

  • When He whom you call the Saviour gave His followers the sop and bade them eat it, telling them it was His body, He delicately alluded to what it was incumbent upon them to do after His death, namely, to eat His body.

  • After long travel, they reached Fort Hall, a British military station, and the commandant undertook to frighten the emigrants by telling them that it was not possible for them to go through with wagons; but Dr.

  • I put in a word about railroads, telling them with a railway we could come from Tripoli to Ghadames in two days.

  • Sometimes I get the conversation turned by telling them, if I turn Mussulman I shall offend my Sultan.

  • I calmed them, telling them "all people were on an equal footing in Algeria, Christians as Mussulmans, even as Mussulmans were in our British India.

  • I quiet the people by telling them, (and which is the fact,) I have repeatedly written to the English Consul of Tripoli about their affairs, and to obtain some mitigation of the oppression of their Government.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    black pigment; expressed himself; grow dark; guess maybe; half gallon; half whisper; intelligent cause; large trade; let him come unto; liaison officer; many dialects; our mother; preventing conception; prima facie; sitting room; stiffnecked people; telling fortunes; telling her; telling him; telling himself; telling stories; telling them; telling what; telling you; till noon; under conditions