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Example sentences for "history tells"

  • Fréjus when he was making his way to Fontainebleau, more or less unwillingly, as history tells.

  • Again, history tells us that it was from the impulse and after influences of the crusading armies to the East that France was welded, under Philippe-le-Bel, into a united whole.

  • History tells us of the Oriental despot who in an hour of revelry commanded his butler to slay a prophet whom he had imprisoned and bring the pale head in upon a charger.

  • Similarly, history tells us of half a score of men during the past two thousand years who have carried this same all-commanding atmosphere.

  • History tells of a thousand men who have maintained virtue in adversity only to go down in hours of prosperity.

  • History tells us that he caught her in his arms--Bottiburgen contests that he caught her in the middle of his chest; anyhow, the house is said to have risen and cheered, thinking it was a new scene suddenly interpolated.

  • History tells us little of Maggie McWhistle's childhood: she apparently lived and breathed like any more ordinary girl--her griddle cakes were famous adown the length and breadth of Aberdeen.

  • History tells us that every goat turned away, as though ashamed of the part it was destined to play.

  • History tells us that on first seeing Maggie in her plaidie he smiled, and that the second time he saw her he guffawed, so light-hearted was he.

  • History tells us of bands of crusaders who tramped across Europe in order to rescue the Holy Land from tyrants and invaders.

  • History tells us of few such unequal contests as this.

  • History tells us that there was even a little jealousy between the four New England colonies.

  • History tells us of many imperial edicts which ordered the pagan temples to be closed and the sacrifices to be discontinued.

  • History tells us how men became so spiritual, in their own conceit, that symbolism was held to be a sin; and how, by losing the sign, the thing signified was forgotten or denied.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    book cover; diminish the; dispensed with; distinguished citizen; electrical engineering; ever lived; forest life; future state; has been already stated; here spoken; history and; history proper; history tells; hydrocyanic acid; lady friend; lucid interval; make sense; marked ability; osmotic pressure; royal crown; strong vinegar; teris paribus; there isn; thus treated