"Tell" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to stand by one another, and never tell the gang's secrets, even if you're chopped all to flinders, and kill anybody and all his family that hurts ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... lady to the opera, he should tell her what part of the house they are to occupy. If it is a box she must at least wear a light opera cloak, even if she does not array herself in full evening dress. However, evening toilet, no bonnet and beautifully dressed hair, are the correct ...
— Social Life - or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society • Maud C. Cooke
... Community, it is surely the salad. More than this, it deserves to meet with favour as a national dish. It takes pre-eminent rank in Southern Europe, and is certainly entitled to occupy a similar high position in the Australian food list. Unfortunately there is just the same story to tell, and the strange neglect of salads can only be expressed by the term incomprehensible. It is a waste-saving dish; it is wholesome, in that it is purifying to the blood; it is full of infinite variety; and its low price ...
— The Art of Living in Australia • Philip E. Muskett (?-1909)
... difference. Let me show you my house; you know it was formerly the hotel of the Prince de Salms, he that was guillotined the other day; but you know nothing, for you have been out of Paris this month, I understand. Then I must tell you that my friend Villeneuf has acquired an immense fortune! by assignats made in the course of a fortnight. I say an immense fortune! and has bought this fine house. Now do you begin ...
— Murad the Unlucky and Other Tales • Maria Edgeworth
... present nestled into their chairs with looks of satisfaction, and Mrs. Cameron said: "Don't leave anything out. Tell ...
— The Shadow World • Hamlin Garland
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