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Example sentences for "tell them"

  • For some reason I wanted to preach--to talk to people, to tell them things.

  • Both Miss Anthony and I gloried in the spirit of these pioneer women, and lost no opportunity to tell them so; for we realized what our nation owes to the patience and courage of such as they were.

  • Let us either tell them that they may dance or that they may not dance; but whatever we tell them, let us make them obey our ruling.

  • I desire only to see my parents and to tell them that I am happy, for doubtless they think me dead.

  • He rose to run away, then thought better of it and sat down again, remembering that should he be found, it would be easy to tell them that he was a wanderer who had lost his path.

  • This is my favorite bee- ground; and I have got all the little creatures so that they know me, and are ready to do everything that I tell them.

  • If you see Parson Amen, or the corporal, it might be well to tell THEM where we are to be found.

  • All of them go to their hives, unless I tell them to go in another direction.

  • Brothers, it is not enough that the pale-faces know so much more than the red men, but they must get the bees to tell them where to find honey, to find bears, to find warriors.

  • Nay, go tell them to the father of lies, for I have no time to waste in hearkening to them.

  • Here will die the knave with three names and the big fool of a half-bred Swiss, and descend to greet their ancestors in a place that is even hotter than this Venice, with but a sorry tale to tell them.

  • There was none to tell them of the doom that the East, whence come light and life, death and the decrees of God, had loosed upon the world.

  • He has a keen sense of the ludicrous, notices funny stories and incidents, knows how to tell them, to improve upon them, and does not forget them.

  • I tell them it means Mark Twain, and that an oesophagus is a kind of swallow.

  • Tell them I have corresponded with the N.

  • Tell them to set lanterns at the door, so I can look down and see them go.

  • Thee thither in a whirlewind: if thou wilt, Tell them there I haue Gold, looke, so I haue Ape.

  • Tell them about it, MacWilliams," Stuart commanded.

  • Well, don't tell them I haven't until this is over," said Clay.

  • Tell them, if they are loyal, they can live in their shacks rent free hereafter," wrote Clay.

  • Langham, who had run down the hill to tell them about it.

  • Hard as it may be, I'll tell them all to hold their tongues and will hide it from the count.

  • Tell them to give me a seat, for God's sake!

  • We'd have to pay seven rubles a cartload to Dorogobuzh and I tell them they're not Christians to ask it!

  • Daniel, tell them to saddle for us, and Michael must come with my dogs," she added to the huntsman.

  • Tell them to take it away," replied Natasha.

  • I charge you, therefore, to tell them to come on, having no fear, as I will receive them well and listen to all they have to say.

  • There we might join some other party of the emigrant Boers--for choice, that of Retief, of whose arrival over the Drakensberg I was able to tell them.

  • Tell them, Allan, that these men are all fools and have given the rule to me, a woman.

  • I am despatching a messenger to the camp to tell them of our safe arrival and good reception by Dingaan.

  • Public opinion whispers about Clotilda: it says she looks so much like that niece of Marston's, that you couldn't tell them apart.

  • Good Elders should be good men; but they, as well as planters, have their frailties; it would not do to tell them all, lest high heaven should cry out.

  • Can we love America and not reach out to tell them: You are not forgotten; we will not rest until each of you can reach as high as your God-given talents will take you.

  • Tonight, I want to speak to the people of the Soviet Union, to tell them it's true that our governments have had serious differences, but our sons and daughters have never fought each other in war.

  • If you know a young couple struggling with bills, worried they won't be able to send their children to college, tell them not to give up, their children can go on to college.

  • It must have been in June, for Mrs. Harling and Antonia were preserving cherries, when I stopped one morning to tell them that a dancing pavilion had come to town.

  • The Harlings begged us to tell them about Mr. Shimerda's death and the big snowstorm.

  • I've tried to tell them, but I leave out so much.

  • Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant truths from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.

  • I've got something to tell my boarders that I don't want to tell them, and if I must do it, I may as well tell you all at once as one to a time.

  • I have often feared they might be tired of me and what I tell them.

  • That is the reason why you will find some odd, miscellaneous facts here, which I wished to tell at least once, as I should not have a chance to tell them habitually at our breakfast-table.

  • They began to want to know the why and wherefore of the business, and I was unable to tell them.

  • Some men scowled, and some men laughed harshly, and if one of our race had been watching on the German behalf he would have been able to tell them something.

  • It would be waste of time to tell them all.

  • Tell them of their sons that you have seen dead and dying in the foolish quarrel for which there was no need.

  • Tell them not to forget the foundation this time.

  • Tell them of the foulness, of the cruelty, of the senselessness of it all.

  • Tell them, finally, that you have restored the glorious doctrine of passive obedience and non-resistance.

  • Tell them that, henceforward, no matter what daring or outrageous act any president may perform, you have forever hermetically sealed the mouth of the Senate.

  • Tell them that it must wait until a House of Representatives, humbled and subdued like itself, and a majority of it composed of the partisans of the President, shall prefer articles of impeachment.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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