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Example sentences for "must tell"

  • Then I must tell you, that my friend Villeneuf has acquired an immense fortune!

  • I must tell, too, that the riflemen had been the whole day running before my horse, without eating or taking any rest.

  • Nevertheless, I must tell you, that instead of calling death to my assistance in that miserable condition, I felt still an inclination to live, and to do all I could to prolong my days.

  • But I must tell you a bit of fun, my boy, which I had the other day in the nunnery of St. Austin.

  • I must tell thee, sirrah, I write man; to which title age cannot bring thee.

  • Nay, I must tell you, so you do; or else I could not be in that mind.

  • I must tell you of Stosch's letter, which he had the impertinence to give you without telling the contents.

  • I must tell you a good story of Charles Townshend: you know his political propensity and importance; his brother George was at supper at the King's Arms with some more young men.

  • I must tell you an anecdote that I found t'other day in an old French author, which is a great drawback on beaux sentiments and romantic ideas.

  • I must tell a speech of the Chevalier, which you will reconnoitre for Florentine; one would think he had seen no more of the world than his brother.

  • We shall pass through the Straits of Magellan, I must tell you," said Lord Glenarvan.

  • This much, however, I must tell you, that I became the leader of the gang, under the name of Ben Joyce.

  • But yet I must tell you, now you put me in mind of it, surely sometimes I have most horrible blasphemous thoughts in me against God, Christ, and the Spirit.

  • I must tell you, avoiding your slovenly language, I know none to whom that title is so proper as to the disciples of John.

  • But of that presently, my father, for I must tell of the coming of Masilo, he who would have wed Zinita, and whom Umslopogaas the Slaughterer had driven out from the kraals of the People of the Axe.

  • Now, though he said little of it, I must tell you, my father, that Galazi had made a great slaughter there in the neck of the donga.

  • Now I must tell how we lost Umslopogaas, the son of Chaka, who was then a great lad drawing on to manhood, fierce in temper, well grown and broad for his years.

  • But now I must tell thee, that it is for thy sake that I have been untrusty to my lord.

  • Yea, I must tell thee (and she reddened therewith) that it is part of my charge to set thee in irons.

  • And now I must tell you a little conversation which I did not hear myself till I came home; it was between Mr. Sheridan and my father.

  • I must tell you, dearest sir, a tale concerning Mrs. Delany, which I am sure you will hear with true pleasure.

  • We must tell her, and make her promise absolute secrecy,' said Mrs. Edmonstone.

  • If Markham will lock it up, I must tell him to give you a key.

  • I must tell you; Guy made Charles promise to do all he could not to let it be a hasty letter.

  • By that time I had made up my mind that the period was come when I must tell my guardian what I knew.

  • Now I must see my man, and I must tell my man to consider himself in custody; but you know me, and you know I don't want to take any uncomfortable measures.

  • Of that meeting, indeed, I must tell something.

  • And so we were both sound asleep in bed one night when a strange thing happened, and a sudden fright came to us, of which I must tell quite at length, for it made, indeed, a very sudden change in the current of our lives.

  • I think I must tell you, Matty, my darling.

  • Now, I am afraid you will think me very narrow, Mr. Wiltshire, but I must tell you I was displeased, and cannot think a trader at all a good man to advise or have an influence upon my pastors.

  • I must tell you I have had my eye on him for nearly a year, and have rather had the worst of our encounters.

  • For, I must tell you, although I appear to you so rich and fortunate, all my fortune, and this house itself and its garden, came out of a bottle not much bigger than a pint.

  • Before I close my letter I must tell you of an adventure I have had with a wild boar, which was really dangerous.

  • I must tell you an incident of it, to show you what babies grown-up men can be at the Antipodes.


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