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Example sentences for "twas said"

  • And with that my indolence grew: for praying I was yet too young: and if I did curse like a trooper, 'twas said I knew not what I said.

  • I heeded nothing if I could but read Berni or Burchiello or Aretine during the sermon in church: nor did I hear any part of the service with greater joy than when 'twas said 'Ite missa est.

  • My Lord Carlisle was the poet and scholar of the little clique which had been to Eton with Charles Fox, any member of which (so 'twas said) would have died for him.

  • Twas said that he was seen coming out of his father's house an hour after the demise, a smile on his face which he strove to hide with a pucker of sorrow.

  • Twas said he loved my mother, and could never come to care for any other woman, and he promised my father in the forests to look after her welfare and mine.

  • The young scapegrace looking on, 'twas said, turned pale on hearing her and went into the crowd, asking questions.

  • Twas said of him he "had a way" with women and could make them believe anything until they found him out, either through lucky chance or because he had done with them.

  • His Royal Highness, so 'twas said, had just stepped out of his barge.

  • At seven o'clock, so 'twas said, the cannon would boom from the old Beffroi.

  • There were some funny little dwarfs with pinched faces and a knowing manner, and a giant come all the way from Russia--so 'twas said.

  • Twas said "The child is father to the man," By one whose world was but the shepherd's range.

  • He was a man of whom 'twas said that he was the most magnificent gentleman in Europe; that there was none to compare with him in the combination of gifts given both by Nature and Fortune.

  • After the morning he rode home with me," my lady answered, "'twas said he went away.

  • Twas said that it was like her to listen with unchanging face, and when she deigned reply, to answer without turning towards him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    assuming command; begin again; cases where; direct observation; during winter; for man; its use; kept quiet; make clear; many prisoners; none other name under heaven given; parted from; saying something; sharp minor; speaking people; tail long; twas done; twas impossible; twas like; twas only; twas plain; twas said; twas time; white dove; writing about; your right