This man told me that he could not permit our marriage, since his conscience would not allow it, and he would find himself compelled to publish the truth at the risk of causing a great scandal, because my father is .
We have told him that Your Excellency has no time and that you have not come to give audiences, but to see the town and the procession.
You see De Espadaña was right when he told you that we were not going to the house of a miserable native.
I thought about you, and knew that he would recognize you, and, in order to get rid of him, I told him that I was going to that town.
Asking me to keep the secret, hetold me that it was you.
My father's last letter, which I received a year ago, told me not to be uneasy if he failed to write to me, for he was very busy.
I then told them they could not do less than make you Admiral also.
But the admiral refused, and told captain Jones that he should not interfere in the quarrel between him and captain L----.
Her face told Winslow that she felt the difficulty of their position.
It may seem strange to you that we should have been caught in such a trap, but we had been told to return in an hour, and we did not think it possible that the tide could rise so rapidly as it did.
He saw the glare of many fires that told of the fate of the homes of the Acadians, his own people.
Another slight scraping sound told them how near they were to being aground, and they exerted all their force to escape the danger that threatened them at every moment.
I had been thinking about a valuable mineral which you told me about, and I remembered what my father used to tell me about a cave which was under the back of the island, and which had a blue vein.
The people staying at the hotel are hoping to arrange for an excursion to Grand-Pré, and Mrs. Forest told me she hoped it would come off before you went away.
I have told him that you think you cannot leave your father for so long a time again.
Len placed the glass to his eye, and the exclamation he made told how much of a surprise the glance gave him.
I am much pleased to know that you have assumed a place in her life," said the young man, warmly, turning upon her a face that told her of the honesty of his words and thoughts.
Again Winslow called after him in such a tone of voice as told Len he had better heed, so he stopped in the road and waited for him to come near enough to speak with him.
The cave, he told me, was known to the Indians in earliest time, and they yet have tradition of the existence of it somewhere.
He often told me that he did not believe he would be afflicted, as his father was not so bad with it as his grandfather.
She had pictured to herself the stalwart, strong Winslow of three years past, but the words that came to her now told the story, and aroused the woman in her, the heart of sympathy for the man she loved.
Have you never wept for the wicked as Elisha did when he foresaw the cruelties of Hazael, or as St. Paul did when he told his brethren of the enemies of the cross of Christ?
The marriage certificate was duly made out, and then her husband told her that it would be expedient to keep their union secret for a time.
On my asking the dusky visitor in Romani what was the matter, he told me that the enemy was approaching to surprise us.
In a tent Finan sang Mass: his altar was that stone Which told where Oswin died.
He took account of all things as they passed; He laughed; he told his tale.
I told you several months ago, that you would repent refusing your son so resolutely and inexorably permission to organise also a troop of volunteers to fight against the rebels and to hunt them out of their hiding-places.
Our most devoted friends told me, however, that this was not the right manner, or the way to fight through our, besides this, perilous cause.
I told her the story of my dealings with Mr. Rookley, from the moment of his coming to me at the Jesuit College in Paris, to the morning when I fled from Blackladies, and so much of his dealings with me as I was familiar with.
Your servant came again to me from Blackladies the other day, and told me a watch was no longer kept upon the house.
Your cousin, Jervas Rookley, lives openly under his own name at Blackladies, and receives visits from the Whig attorney; and since he can only be staying there with the sufferance of the Government, you may be certain what I told you is true.
It is not well done," and he made as though he would take the paper from my hands, "for I am no clerk, but he told me the letter was not of the first importance.
I should have told you that before, but, like a fool, I put the questions first.
I told her briefly how we had escaped from Preston.
He told me he had sent to your hiding-place and bidden you join him there.
And I told the lawyer of the double game which Rookley had played.
I, and I told her of the picture which Lord Bolingbroke had shown to me at the monastery of the Chartreux in Paris, and of the thought which I had drawn from it.
And so weak men are," said I rather sadly, for I recalled all that Lord Bolingbroke had told me.
I told you it would be Dorothy Curwen;" and with that he shook me by the hand.
The Chevalier, they told me, had gone to Commercy.
It was for that reason I told you I was not greatly surprised to come upon you.
I know, for his father told me, and told me on his death-bed.
Indeed, the monk had told him more than once that bare intellectual argument could do nothing except clear the ground of actual fallacies.
You see it's the same thing as in trades and professions, as I told you yesterday.
Of course, as he told himself afterwards, he scarcely had a fair opportunity of judging how a Socialist State would be when the machinery was in running order.
As he came down the steps, his eyes quick with tears, he saw for the first time the lines of the sick in the place to which he had been told to look.
He told himself bitterly that he resembled the child's Amphibian, which could not live on the land and died in the water.
And he had told the whole thing--the sense that there was no longer any escape from Christianity, that it had dominated the world, and that it was hateful and tyrannical in its very essence.
Father Jervis has told me how well you did at lunch; and Mr. Manners said nothing, except that you were a very good host and a very graceful listener.
But it appeared to him (to his imagination rather, as he angrily told himself) that he could not believe them capable of any absolutely reckless crime or reckless act of virtue.
One priest had told him that civilization in the modern sense would be inconceivable without them.
Father," he said, "it's exactly as I told you before lunch.
We are told occasionally by moralists that we live in very critical times, by which they mean that they are not sure whether their own side will win or not.
Philip glided into the line of least resistance and signed every paper that he was told to sign by his gracious, winning, inflexible Minister--the true type of the iron hand in the velvet glove.
When Corot went back to Paris he showed sketches of Barbizon and told of the little snuggery, where life was so simple and cheap.
Abbey and Parsons found a house they were told was built in Fifteen Hundred Sixty-three.
Abbey told the story, and there was soon evidence in better work that he was telling it for Some One.
Long years after, at Rome, Thorwaldsen told the story to Hans Christian Andersen about being caught astride the great bronze horse at Copenhagen, and of the awful reprimand of the judge bewigged.
Their frescos were destroyed, and Raphael was told to go ahead and make the Vatican what it should be.
The soldier's profession is only one remove from the business of Jack Ketch, who hangs men and then salves his conscience with the plea that some one told him to do it," said Whistler.
Then if you showed curiosity and wanted to know further, your gondolier would have told you more about this strange man.
She told him of Cimabue, Giotto, Ghirlandajo, Leonardo and Perugino, and especially of the last two, who were living and working only a few miles away.
Who would have thought that he would have mastered every phase of warfare at twenty-six, and when told that the Exchequer of France was in dire confusion, would say: "The finances?
At this distance of time we should be quite willing to take his word for it, just as we would, most certainly, if he had told us these things face to face.
I told two of the hands to cross the road, and fetch from the house of the butcher Capretta a load of young oak- wood, which had lain dry for above a year.
The story, astold by Mrs. Newbold, with all her little artistic touches of gesture and inflection, haunted him strangely.
Only what Esther has toldus all, which you heard, I think.
She has since told me that her first intimation of danger was the sight of her darling's bright sunny hair and frightened blue eyes being borne away in the rocking, swaying carriage, as it sped down the drive, drawn by horses wild and young.
Well, and was he not right when he told Esther Newbold that he would not consent again to play the fool to a woman's vanity?
Malachi addressed the Indian in his own tongue, and told him what Captain Sinclair requested.
Yes, sir; old Malachi told me that the boy had shot a deer, and that he would bring it here to-morrow himself.
Malachi called the Strawberry, and told her to speak to Percival about his home and his mother, and every thing connected with the farm.
I toldyou that you would be a miller," replied Emma, laughing.
No, miss, because he was busy enough below, and I dare say no one told him.
He told Martin, that in a few days he would discover what had taken place and what might be looked forward to.
This was of little consequence; indeed, the others were told that they might go away, if they would; and as soon as they heard this from Malachi, they followed the example of their companions.
I have told him that your position as my heir will, to a very large extent, depend upon his reports, and have asked him, in the name of our old friendship, to be perfectly frank and open in them with me.
And so it was arranged, and in his walk with Aggie, afterwards, the sergeant told her the history of her parents, and that Squire Linthorne was her other grandfather, and that she was to go up and see him that evening.
When her sobs began to cease, her grandfather told her what she was to do when she saw the squire.
The lady was called in, and the queen told her that her father had given his free consent.
She answered, she knew him not; insomuch that enquiry was made from one to another who he might be, till at length it was told the queen that he was brother to the lord William Mountjoy.
I told her majesty, that though I had no reason of being weary, I knew my mistress her affairs called me home; yet I was stayed two days longer, that I might see her dance, as I was afterward informed.
Here he told the Vigilants that the three men had returned in the boat (which he had previously declared they had taken) and landed on the bank of the river.
The freight engineer told the story of the impressed powder-train that was hurrying on to Beauregard, and of the fine-looking, imperious Confederate who was in command.
Watson beckoned to his two companions, and told them what the boy suggested.
They began to talk agreeably, and the minister told several quaint stories of plantation life, while they smoked on, and the women cleared off the food from the table.
Make one movement to escape, or say anything but what I have told you to say, and you are a dead man!
An intuition told the listener that his own party was the subject of discussion.
He had hoped, by burning a bridge, to head off the pursuing engine before now; his failure to do this, and the complication caused by the telegraph line to Cleveland, told him that he must come to a halt before reaching Chattanooga.
Watson told his Kentucky story, and asked food and lodgings for George and himself until the early morning.
The three pretended Kentuckians had told their usual story, and professed their love for the Confederacy, and no one there had seemed to doubt their truthfulness for a moment.
He wasted no words; the story was complete as he thustold it; the effect was magical.
He had never told a deliberate falsehood in his life.
When George and Watson were a little stronger they told the story of their adventures, in brief but graphic terms, to the interested group of officers.
It is told that the Hessians hanged a negro slave of Odell's three separate times in an effort to make him disclose the hiding place of certain hogs with which the said Hessians were anxious to fraternise.
A pleasant little story is told of General Montgomery's last days in Rhinebeck.
And then the dramatic fibre, always awake in her, told her that she had found the tone she sought.
He had broken the succession in a line of priests; but it seemed to him that he had simplytold what he wanted to do for a living.
Morning came, and mid-forenoon, and while she stepped about under the roof where dust had gathered and bitter herbs told tales of summers past, John drove into the yard.
Dilly longed to stretch herself on the old kitchen lounge in her own home; but Mrs. Pike told her plainly that she was crazy, and Jethro, with a kindly authority, bade her yield.
David Macy had told her the sun rose in the west, she'd ha' looked out for it there every identical mornin'.
We marveled over her guessing how keenly she was needed; but since she never explained, it began to be noised abroad that some wandering peddler told her.
But he'd ha' told anyway, he was so possessed to show that ring.
There she had mused many an evening which seemed to her less dull than the general course of her former life, while her husband occupied the hearthside chair and told her stories of the war.
Letty's eyes involuntarily sought the bag, whose concave sides flapped hungrily together; but she told her lie with cheerfulness.
It was vain that Flora told herself she had given warning.
In her instant of indecision Marrika had got away from her, but she called the girl back from the door and told her to say to Mrs. Britton that Mr. Kerr had called, but that Miss Gilsey would see him herself.
In vain Flora told herself it was only the relief she always felt in getting free of Clara.
If only she had told the truth--even so much of it as to say there was something she could not tell.
I didn't mean to, but you had no business to keep the ring after what I told you.
She could not havetold afterward whether Clara spoke to her.
He nevertold how he got it, but lucky marriages came with it, and the Crews would not take the House of Lords for it.
She told herself whimsically that perhaps it was his extraordinary glasses that gave point to that expression; and presently when he took them off she was surprised to see it seemed verily true.
Yet there they stood together, and as Flora looked at them she could not have told which was of the finer temper.
Has he never told you anything of that morning when we left your house together?
Had it been at the moment of his attempted departure that Kerr hadtold him, Flora wondered?
She might even have told him something, at least a part of the truth, but for that other standing watching her from the drawing-room door.
Harry walking toward Chinatown, when he had told her distinctly he would be in Burlingame!
You told us that," was what she had meant to say, but Harry stopped her.
Besides the poetry there are startling moments of insight-- "My mother told me just how he would woo As if she sat in's heart.
The story of Orsino, Viola, Olivia and Sebastian is to be found in the "Historie of Apolonius and Silla" as told by Barnabe Riche in the book Riche his Farewell to Militarie Profession.
Arden of Feversham is a domestic tragedy founded on a story told by Holinshed.
They would do well to consider the power of mind that has told so much in so few words.
The story is told by Saxo Grammaticus in his Historia Danica.
The third act would have told (much more subtly than Fletcher has told) of his downfall.
The story of Lear is told in Holinshed's Chronicles, in a play by an unknown hand, The True Chronicle History of King Leir, and in a few stanzas of the tenth canto of the second Book of Spenser's Faerie Queene.
The story of the three caskets is alsotold in the Gesta Romanorum.
If men were too persistent in inquiring about the nature of this world, they were told that it is of little importance, only a prelude to the world to come; that they should spend their time in preparation for the future.
Granting that the increase of material comforts, in fact, of wealth, is a great achievement of the age, the whole story is not told until the use of the wealth is determined.
I told him that he must think of nothing of the kind, as probably the books would be seized on the first attempt to introduce them into Toledo, as the priests and canons were much averse to their distribution.
I told him he could call for whatever he pleased: whereupon he demanded a glass of aguardiente, which the master of the house, who had stationed himself behind the counter, handed him without saying a word.
I found my new acquaintance in many respects a most agreeable companion: he soon told me his history.
He told me, however, that he could not relieve me, and as for my being a pilgrim from Saint James, he was glad of it, and hoped that it would be of service to my soul.
She told me that it was her intention to follow him to Malaga, where she hoped to be able to effect his escape.
Poor Victoriano flew into a violent rage; and, after calling the alcalde several very uncivil names, he pulled the soga from his bags, flung it at his head, and told him to take it home and use it for his own neck.
She demanded what I meant; whereupon I told her that I carried cheap and godly books for sale.
So help me, sir, I believe you to be a Salamancan Jew; I am told there are still some of the old families to be found there.
In effect, during the course of the morning, I was told that a warrant had been issued for my apprehension.
At length it came to pass, that on a particular time he told us that he was going on a journey, and he embraced us and bade us farewell, and he departed, whilst we continued at Jerusalem attending to the business.
I would have gone with them, but I was told that I could not land that night, as ere my passport and bill of health could be examined, the gates would be closed; so I remained on board with the crew and the two Jews.
Besides, the tale I have told you is vouchsafed for in the manner following: "The morning after that extraordinary night Catherine Fontaine was discovered dead in her chamber.
At last I got within arm's length of the tiny speck of blue light which told me where the gas-burner lay.
If you please, sir, when the postman brought it he told me that they'd bored the holes in the lid at the post-office.
You've not seen it do the things I've seen," and he told Saunders more of what had happened at Eastbourne.
If I had not tortured him so by clinging near him, he would not have told her.
Then I told Jean Marie to saddle my horse, and while I was speaking Lys came down.
To make up for this he often repeated the same stories, and to my knowledge he told the story of Catherine Fontaine at least a hundred times.
Exactly, sir; that's what I told her; but we couldn't get her to stop.
I shall have finished in a moment," Theresa told him, and he sat down to wait for her.
A few days before the time of her intended departure my sister told Allan that she must speak with him after dinner.
At length it was told to choose a place itself, and it did so.
At last they reached a solitary spot, where she told her son that she must needs lie down, and take a good, long rest.
Therefore, when Cadmus and his two brothers came crying home, and told him how that a white bull had carried off their sister, and swam with her over the sea, the king was quite beside himself with grief and rage.
They were glad enough to get their supper on almost any terms, so they told the eagle he might have what he wanted if he would only get the meat cooked.
He told what excellent butter and cheese Baucis made, and how nice were the vegetables which he raised in his garden.
Then he sat down on the grass, and told them the story of his life, or as much of it as he could remember, from the day when he was first cradled in a warrior's brazen shield.
And the Oracle told him that he must wander for his sin, till the wild beasts should feast him as their guest.
But, as I have already told you, it was quite a common thing with young persons, when tired of too much peace and rest, to go in search of the garden of the Hesperides.
Full of these remembrances, he came within sight of a lofty mountain, which the people thereabouts told him was called Parnassus.
I told you she would be the first to discover them," said Quicksilver to Perseus.
For she told his daughters: "I can make old things young again; I will show you how easy it is to do.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "told" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
