Aren't ye sorry now ye came to say, as I tould ye--hey?
But this man, because I was not able to speake plaine Hollandish without mixing some English amongst it, tould me that I was an English rogue, and hee would rather bee a meanes to helpe me to the gallowes then to carry mee in his ship.
Sure Bill tould me, that time he came back from America, there wasn't such a thing as a pot to be seen over there at all.
But won't he go mad when he hears youtould him nothing but lies?
Ah, sir, I knew it would come to this; and you, too, tould him the same thing.
I'm tould Mrs. Zack an' Ged is packing up, to be off to some wild place intirely.
But there was a man alongside me at the dinner that had a few words of English; an' he tould me that this time of the year they all marries to be ready against the winter.
More like the Injins, that I'm tould lies in bed while their wives digs the praties!
This plainly tould them all a true tale, that I had not confissed, or betrayed any of them by a cowardly disacknowledgment.
Bill tould me he reckoned that lootenant were more wild than ef Bill 'ad spoke hisself.
Soon as we'd got t'other barge clear, I went up and tould the guvnor.
Yaou tould me there warn't no daown train for twenty minutes," I says.
They what taught he to ride tould he to shorten sail same as goin' daown hills and that, and maybe 'e did.
But I can tell you how she thravelled a good step of the way home," Ody now continued, "for she tould me herself.
And besides that, the man I was talkin' totould me his brother was never right in his head after the tossin' he got.
Himself tould me his father was the ouldest of all the Polymatherses there was in the counthry he came out of--somewheres down south, I think he said--and the head of the whole of thim forby.
For th' ould gintleman touldhim Campion was his name; and it appairs Polymathers is some discripshin of thrade, and not rightly called to anybody at all.
A couple of chaps in uniform like came axin' me me business, but I tould them fast enough that I was a candidate--ah, goodness help me.
I couldn't ha' tould you such a thing, for I wasn't next or nigh the place.
And they tould me to take Tib along, or else they'd be lavin' her to run wild; so I put her in the basket.
Old Billy resumed his seat with a lofty glance of patronage at the men about him, which said as plainly as words themselves, "I tould ye to lave it all to me.
Don't be looking so pale,--I tould him he had my consint, if he could get yours.
But who tould you I was a vixen, dear--plase your honour?
He tould me your honour--which is a slander, as we all here can witness, can't we?
Crook tould thim that he'd blow the hide off any man that misconducted himself; but, seeing that ut was the first time the Tyrone had iver seen their dead, I do not wondher they were on the sharp.
He marched an' he niver tould how near he was to breakin' down.
I've tould you time an' again, an' what I have not Dinah Shadd has.
In the days av my youth, as I have more than wanst tould you, I was a man that filled the eye an' delighted the sowl av women.
By a Brabander I was tould it, thoug by his name I should rather think him a Holander.
That he was neither a Dutchman nor a Fleming will, I think, be obvious from the following passage in the narration of his travels: "Also, I haue been tould that theare growethe in the land bothe tulipes and narsisus.
They often tould me that whin I was a priest I wud have no use for the farm.
They tould me that they had expinded the hundred pounds, an' the value of the farm, an' a little more in masses an' prayers to get me father out of purgatory.
The very first day wan of the native policemen pointed out an ould black-face among the chiefs an' tould me that was the man that put the bullet through me two cheeks.
He tould me that it wud become me to have less to say in the prisince of me betters.
I came to me birthplace, Sleeahtballymackcurraghalicky in County Cork, an' tould the ouldest man in the place who I was an' what was me business.
While he was gone I stood in the doorway and Missus Sheldon tould me of the little Carsons and how Missus Carson had sworn niver to marry again excipt in the life-saving service.
So it was me that wint in and tould the ladies they were saved and helped thim to the wharf and saw thim started for the hotel.
There was some remar-rks passed upon me wet clothes, but I tould the clerk in the office that me duty often called me to get drippin' soaked and went into the dinin'-room with a stiff neck under me proud chin.
Two words with the skipper of the tug tould me the rest.
I dug thim with me own hands this night,' I tould the man in the office.
If that launch is ashore they are as close to the fire as they can get,' I tould thim.
When she crossed our stern me bould Tad tould me to command her to folley us into port.
Aut'ority is always aut'ority, and I tould him what I knew and had seen, not forbearin' to mintion the gang and their wild ambitions.
Then I tould that skipper, with rage in me throat, that he must up anchor and folley us or be drownded with all his passengers dragging on his coattails through purgat'ry.
I tould you that that was what war in the paper he gave me; he'll give you another, telling you all about it just this minute.
Well, I thought of it a little, and tould him I'd take the hint.
And that I tould you, that when I did know I shouldn't tell you?
For forty year we've bin tould the other thing, maaster.
Why, the ponds be always dry i'the zummer; and I be tould that bean't wholesome vor the little vishes.
Why I zivelly tould un, if it were agreeable to he to behave like a brute, it were agreeable to I to behave like a man.
He tould off five av the biggest to stretch me on my cot whin the shot was fired, an' another man he tould off to put out the light, an' yet another to load my rifle.
I tould him to put her to again an' fire a blank into the blow-pit to show how the dirt hung on the groovin'.
Not before my orf'cer,' sez I; an' I tould him fwhat my service was.
That bhoy, so I was touldby letter from Bombay, bullydamned 'em down to the dock, till they cudn't call their sowls their own.
The mistress tould Mrs. Gallagher how I was deserted by that deceatfull blaguard, taking off with him my peace of mind, two petticoats, and a blue cloth cloak, that I thought would last me for life!
Lord George tould me in confidence--the other day it was--that the mistress wanted an increase to her family.
And Mr. Towse tould me that ye Apparition had perfectly ye resemblance of ye said Sr George Villiers in all respects and in ye same habitt that he had often seene him weare in his lifetime.
And then (as I remember) Mr. Towse tould me that ye Apparition instructed him what message he should deliver unto ye Duke.
There is Dicky Ryan, who, as I tould him yesterday, had just the same chances as you have had, just Dicky Ryan still.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tould" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
