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Example sentences for "tellt"

Lexicographically close words:
telleth; tellin; telling; tellings; tells; telltale; tellum; tellure; telluric; telluride
  1. The flash o' the burst o' the second salvo tellt me what havoc the first had wrocht, but by noo ma een was licht-blind and Ah cudna see weel.

  2. The bonny man tellt his ain fowk first that he was gaein awa in order that they michtna be able to do wantin him, and bude to stir themselves and come up efter him.

  3. I tellt ye it wasna there,' interposed Kirsty.

  4. I never tellt my mither onything, he said, and I tell her a'thing worth tellin, and mony a thing forby.

  5. Ye cud hae tellt by naething intil't what ever it was meant for, hoose or byre or barn, kirk or kirkyard.

  6. Ye tellt him hoo little ye thoucht o' me, and that gart him change his min'!

  7. I dinna believe he ever tellt a lee in 's life.

  8. I beg yer leddyship's pardon, my leddy, but I wadna ha'e Ma'colm lat ye gang in there ohn tellt ye what there is inside.

  9. If you had been tellt the story to begin with, maybe ye would have thought so yourself.

  10. I tellt ye, my lord, I wad du naething but what I saw to be richt.

  11. An' jist bethink ye, my lord: wad it be onything less nor an imposition to lat a man merry her ohn tellt him what she was?

  12. We 're tellt to resist him an' he'll flee frae 's.

  13. Punishment tellt upo' Jacob like upon a thin skinned horse, whauras Esau was mair like the minister's powny, that can hardly be made to unnerstan' that ye want him to gang on.

  14. I tellt the laird what ye tellt me to tell him, Malcolm," she said.

  15. But wha tellt ye what I was aboot in Lonnon?

  16. I winna say a word o' what Jock Mitchell tellt me aboot Lord Sandy.

  17. I tellt him 'at hoo I didna think ye wad hae ta'en sae muckle fash gin ye hadna had some houps o' the kin' aboot him.

  18. Weel, I kenna wha brocht the shune, as I tellt ye a'ready.

  19. My mither tellt me he did verra ill efter Watterloo till a fremt (stranger) lass at Brussels.

  20. And I never tellt onybody, nae even Miss St. John, wha plaistered it up, hoo I had gotten 't.

  21. My brither Sandy's groom, as I tellt ye afore.

  22. Ay, he tellt her aboot me, an' hoo I had gane and droont mysel'.

  23. But I tellt him what Christians believed.

  24. He needna hae latten them awa' ohn tellt (without telling) them that he was their brither.

  25. Bide till I hae tellt ye, as I said I wad,' answered Shargar.

  26. It wad a' be true that he tellt them, and the trowth can never be a meddlin' wi' the free wull.

  27. Ay, and afore God, that kens a'thing ohn onybody tellt him!

  28. It's no for naething we're tellt hoo the sinner-women cam til him frae a' sides!

  29. But, as I daur say my father tellt ye, I canna believe ye lo'e God wi' a' yer hert.

  30. But my man tellt me no to lat him up, an' hoo am I to be a wife sic as ye wad hae, O Lord, gien I dinna dee as my man tellt me!

  31. Will was rarely put out when I tellt him what doctor had said," Simon went on.

  32. I tellt you I meant to gang ever since I come in?

  33. She tellt parson it was a double wedding or summat o' the sort, but she never let wit on't to Sarah and me until she was fair inside door.

  34. Will an' me could easy ha' tellt 'em why!

  35. Battersby wanted nowt wi' the farm,--he tellt me so outside.

  36. I tellt her so this morning when I see her in town.

  37. You could ha' tellt Simon easy enough on the road out!

  38. The doctor tellt her to-day she was going blind.

  39. Will and me could likely ha' tellt them about it, though, couldn't we, Sarah?

  40. She tellt me that you'd be coming and that it was more nor like you'd travel by night.

  41. But I willna split on you, nor I willna let on that you tellt on her.

  42. I never tellt onybody, an' ye wasna auld eneuch no to forget a' aboot it.

  43. Arena we tellt to sing an' mak melody to the Lord?

  44. Ye tellt me ye had soor milk," said the laird--without a particle of offence, rather in the tone of apology for having by mistake made away with something too good for him.

  45. I tellt ye a'ready," answered Cosmo; "I come frae the auld country.

  46. Dinna think aither 'at ever she tellt a lee, or said a word to gar fowk pity her.

  47. Ye tellt me ye had to sit up to yer lessons!

  48. I ken nowt of love, such as folk make songs about, but my mother always tellt me never to wed a lass for a dowry.

  49. Ye had faur ower much drink,' I tellt him, takin' him oot frae amang the drones and ribbons and things.

  50. If it gangs on much further,' I tellt him, 'I'll bring oot the polis.

  51. Duffy the coal-man tellt me he saw ye yince doon aboot the Broomielaw," said Erchie.

  52. I wad be only too willin',' he tellt her, 'if I had on my ither boots and hadna ett thon last cookie.

  53. That's the mandoline for you, Duffy,' says I, when he tellt me.

  54. I'm shair I aye tellt Erchie a wife was sair wanted in your hoose since Maggie dee'd.

  55. They tellt me Millport; and efter I couldna find the man I was wantin' at Millport, I was tellt it was here, No.

  56. They left me there, in their considerate kindliness, till the cauld light o' the New Year's morning began to break, and syne they came and tellt me I maun go.

  57. They tellt me he wasna fit to be seen, but there's nae law that can keep a wife frae seeing her husband's corpse.

  58. Weel, she did as I tellt her--I will say this for Leddy Carline, that she's aye biddable.

  59. But arena we tellt to be wise as serpents?

  60. Haud yer han's and yer een aff o' them, as I tellt ye afore.

  61. The face o' God's like the sun, as ye hae tellt me; for no man cud see him and live.

  62. But I'm feared ye'll gang awa' ohn tellt me aboot the licht and the water.

  63. He tellt me that they cam' on the minister quite accidental-like; and that they werena' lookin' for him ava.

  64. He had recognised the man as Andrew Paterson o' Daldowie, and tellt Claver'se as much.

  65. You mind I tellt ye, before I left, that when I went west I should try to fin' oot what happened at Daldowie.

  66. I could hear him say: "I could ha'e tellt ye afore he started.

  67. Weel, I sat and cracked wi' Lag for maybe half an 'oor and tellt him mair than ane guid story and had a he'rty laugh or twa oot o' him.

  68. But it was the afternoon when Mr. Rattar had been at the house that she sent for Miss Farmond and tellt her then she was wanting her to stop on.

  69. I tellt her ladyship flatly that she'd find herself afore the Shirra', and that I was no going to abet any such proceedings.

  70. I would have turned him about his business, if it had been me, and tellt him our ladies werena in.

  71. That was what Jock Cadder tellt me, and I warrant I was in a fine fricht.

  72. The herd o' Powmood tellt me, and I got twae 'oors start o't and cam off here what I could rin.

  73. Ye'll mind that ye tellt me if ever I was in need o' onything, to come your way.


  74. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tellt" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.