It seems that as an editor he took totelling falsehoods on his own account so often that the Syndicate is packing him off as Special Correspondent to a tailless comet.
I hadn't gone three feet till some woman held me up and began telling me how she adored Grand Opera.
As I had been telling the children all the stories about the river on the way, I managed to get my head pretty well inside of the carriage, and, at the time she spoke, was keeping a lookout in front with my back.
A letter from the lawyer in Richmond, tellingfather that at last, after these years of waiting, the great case has been decided, and in his favor.
They had no means of telling the hour save as the shadows lengthened; the sun-dial they depended on was the dropping of the glowing day god behind the western horizon.
By that time they could not harm us by returning to the Seneca village, and telling what they know of the council spies.
My dear mother chid me for telling her what I saw, so I did not impress it on my mind by repeating it.
But my mood changed suddenly, and I politely begged his pardon, telling him frankly then and there what had made me laugh, and how I had come to think of it.
My friend Winn has been telling me how he has been hunting the country for you, and found you at last under my roof.
He has also told me how you pluckily saved the Vaarg Valley plans from our rivals; and after hearing the story, I took the liberty of telling him that he is an exceptionally lucky man to have gained such a woman for his wife.
This is a particularly telling part of the toilet, and goes a long way towards making the bloom show its best.
An effort was made to resurrect it, with the proposed advantage of a telling new title, and Mr. F.
But I am telling you nothing but the truth, and I wish I may never draw another breath if that chimney didn't smoke so that the smoke actually got caked in it and I had to dig it out with a pickaxe!
The consequence might be guessed without my telling it: peopled turned their stock loose to starve, and before the spring arrived Carson and Eagle valleys were almost literally carpeted with their carcases!
And I'm telling you nothing but the unvarnished truth when I say that not one single drop of rain fell on me--not a single drop, sir!
And when he came back he was never tired of telling about the fine hogs he had seen in England, and the gorgeous sheep he had seen in Spain, and the fine cattle he had noticed in the vicinity of Rome.
Some one was telling her that Croker was among the crowd who thought they could have managed the battle of Waterloo much better than Wellington, whose success, in their estimation, was only a fortunate mistake.
I am telling Miss Arnold that I considered Miss St. John handsome.
My aunt, Miss Lisle, lives there--the aunt I was telling you about, who wanted me to stay with her.
His duties were punctually fulfilled and his parish-work always in order, yet he went out a good deal and stayed at large houses, where he was much in request for his marvellous powers of telling stories.
Incidents are greater than description, as the telling to me how a tree looked when it was in full foliage is not near so incisive as that the tree fell with a great crash during a storm in the night.
But they tried to dissuade me from it, telling me that I would certainly lose my way, and perhaps perish; for though it appeared a garden to the eye, it was still a wilderness.
The brilliant flame of the pitch-pine knot illumined the cabin; and around the fire these hardy men often kept wakeful until midnight, smoking their pipes, telling their stories, and singing their songs.
I put the ingredients in the cup pretty strong I tell you, and I concluded my speech by telling them that I was done with politics for the present, and that they might all go to hell, and I would go to Texas.
Quite a group of teamsters were scattered around the room, smoking their pipes, and telling their marvellous stories.
He repulsed her, tellingher that she was mistaken.
Thus he became disgusted; and telling his brethren that they would find him at Jayasthal, he departed, with the intention of studying wisdom.
And after paying their respects to Haridas, and telling him their wishes, they were directed to come early on the next morning and to enter upon the first ordeal--an intellectual conversation.
In a short time he was again bundled into the cloth with the usual want of ceremony, and he revenged himself by telling another true story.
He recalled his words to her, uttered years ago, half in jest and half in earnest; he had horrified her beyond expression by telling her how he would punish a wife if he were the husband she deceived.
You are trying to trick me into telling you what I DO know.
I ran across May Rosabel, that chorus girl I was telling you about.
It was impossible for her to hide the fact that the strain was telling on her perceptibly.
The officer gasped and there is no telling what might have happened, if the captain and a swarm of bluecoats had not appeared on the scene at that moment.
I can almost hear Mrs. Rowden telling Jackson that he will be the dearest boy in the world if he will dine with her.
But I did want to take this opportunity of telling you that I have been pleased with you this term, though perhaps my praise sounds weak beside the applause you got after your innings.
So he went down to breakfasttelling Collins the latest joke from The London Mail.
Only that evening he had been talking with Hazlitt, and telling him how sorry he was that there was no place for him in the side.
Are you telling me that any Fernhurst boys so lack sportsmanlike feeling as to bribe boys in other houses to lay out their rivals, so that it will be easier for them to win.
In a week's time Lovelace was back again in the Colts, and Gordon was telling his friends what fools they were not to trust "the Bull.
He finished by a patriotic outburst, telling them that they were wearing the King's uniform, and that it must be kept clean, with the brass badges polished.
Well, you see, this same Squire Wates that I am telling you of, came from abroad somewhere, and bought a vast deal of property about Shields.
In fact, I had returned to Moffat, telling my uncle that I was tired of sitting, and would rather, like himself, carry a pack.
Being under a Necessity of telling him, he seem'd surpriz'd at it, and would needs know how Madam came by that Jewel.
The Maid who then happen'd to be at the Gate, came and knock'd at my Door telling my Man that some Body wanted to speak with me, and that she had told him I was in my Chamber.
As to a Wife, I can't avoid telling you here how our Monarch recover'd one in my Presence worthy to wear a Diadem.
After she understood about the money, and found that it was one hundred dollars, Mrs. O'More broke down and cried like a baby, telling Bird that she was a real lady and no mistake.
Bird had written a short note to Mrs. Lane telling of her safe arrival in the city, and giving her address, but more than that she could not say.
A nurse had been sent for, but had not arrived when a messenger came to me telling of a very sudden illness of Mrs. Morey, the wife of the steel-magnate.
You see, John Templeton had left his office in New York early that afternoon, telling his father that he was going to visit Miss Wainwright.
By telling me just how you came by this will, so that when you and Fletcher are married I may be as good a friend, without suspicion, to you as I am to him.
Would you mind telling me what you know about it if I promise you that I, too, have something to reveal?
If you want your daughter back, go yourself, alone and withouttelling a soul, to Enrico Albano's Saturday night at the twelfth hour.
I don't mind telling you that I dislike the publicity that would attend any statement I might make to the coroner.
We hope that Mr. Fenn will not again try these theatrical tricks with language, for he possesses a rare art--the art of telling a story well.
Now my sister had always made a point of telling him whatever came into her head, even the greatest home-truths, and he had never taken her outspokenness amiss.
Gilbert, then Principal of Brasenose, and won Bessie's heart the first day by telling at the dinner table how he had almost leapt off the coach in Bagley Wood to gather the blue veronica.
Ramsay's life is worth telling well, and Mr. Robertson tells it well, and gives us a really capital picture of Edinburgh society in the early half of the last century.
Still, it is not without power, and cultured verse is certainly a pleasanter medium for story-telling than coarse and common prose.
What is the use of telling artists that they should try and paint Nature as she really is?
I hae look it to you for twenty years to finish what I hae begun--for twenty years I hae been telling mysel' 'my Davie will win again the bonnie braes o' Ellenmount.
This truth-telling voice which leaves us without a particle of our self-complacency?
He was talking to one of his fellows, and evidently telling a funny story, at which both giggled and snickered, ere they walked their separate ways.
Cleve Sullivan has been spending his for four years in Europe, and he has just been telling his friend John Selden how he spent it.
They knew that Harnett would not voluntarily have gone away without telling them, and an undefined but a very great fear took possession of them.
Now we shall need some considerable money, and I advise you to write to your father, telling him of what you own, and asking him to come on here prepared to help you.
The boys had come, believing they should surprise Mr. Simpson by telling him there was a chance that oil might be found on the land he had sold so cheaply; but instead of doing so, the old man had startled them considerably.
Bob motioned to George to be silent; but it was too late, and Ralph said: "The only trouble is that I chose to go away this morning without telling him where I was going.
The principal characters are Darius Lunt, the lad who, represented as telling the story, and his comrades, Robert Clement and Nicholas Vallet.
And you brooded over these melancholy ideas until you were ill, instead of coming to me for advice, and telling me the whole story?
Write down," said the magistrate, "that he declines to answer all interrogatories, in respect that bytelling the truth he might be brought to trouble.
The story-tellers of the tribe were telling many of their magic tales.
The leader cheered his brothers by telling them they would win in their battle.
The newspapers, in telling of such happenings, usually have one short illuminative sentence which explains all: "The man had been drinking.
When the purple rain-clouds gather And a mist comes over the hills, A peace beyond all telling The hired man's bosom fills, And the long, long sleep in the morning His heart with rapture fills.
You see," said the teacher sadly, when telling the story, "he had caught the Canadian spirit.
She prided herself on never tellinganyone to do what she could do herself.
More recent philosophers have been more adroit--they have sought to soften the blow, and so they palaver the women by telling them what a tremendous power they are for good.
Virgil cheers him by telling him that he has been sent to his aid by a blessed Spirit from Heaven.
Bill was grinning and asking "if it hurt much" and telling me that I could see better after a little and lots of other sympathetic nothings.
Pont soon had the coon out, and when I saw that it was the coon that had escaped with our trap, I gave Pont praise for what he had done, petting him and telling him of his good deed, and he seemed to understand it all.
In the Hunter-Trader-Trapper, I read, undoubtedly written by a trapper of many years experience, telling the true way of setting the trap in front of a V shaped pen.
Well boys, you will excuse me from telling just how many coon we got in an hour and seven minutes.
We at once started for camp, Frank eating the lunch I had brought in my knapsack, and telling of his trials, as we made tracks the best we were able to for camp.
Frank, in telling his story, would cry like a baby, and then laugh like a boy with a pair of new boots.
The one man continued to go on with a great deal of tellingwhat he would do and what he would not, until we had supper ready, when we asked the men to eat with us.
Father laughed at the idea of the panther screaming, when he heard people telling of hearing them.
But you are very fond of talking, monsieur, and of telling everything you have learned!
I am not fond of having anyone laugh at me without telling me why, capédébious!
And yet, I do not love this Léodgard; but I would be glad to make sure that that youth has not been telling us a parcel of lies.
