"Tellen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have this huh envelope?" Bo Peep pleaded, and, clutching it as a sacred treasure, he said: "Mis' Virginia, didn't I done tellen you Misteh Thaine ...
— Winning the Wilderness • Margaret Hill McCarter
... if it to tellen be? In the subarbes of a town, quod he, Lurking in bernes and in lanes blind Whereas thise robbours and thise theves by kinde Holden hir privee fereful residence As they that dare not shewen hir presence,— So faren we, if I shal say ...
— Walladmor: - And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. - In Two Volumes. Vol. I. • Thomas De Quincey
... a place where I dar not pleyne Liche hym that is in torment and in peyne And knowet[h] not to whom to discure For ther that I haue holly set my aire I dar not wel for drede ne for daunger And for vnknowen tellen how the fyre Of loues bronde is kyndlid in my breste Thus am I murdred and slayn atte leste So priuely wit[h]yn my thought O lady venus whom I haue sought So wysse me now what me is best to doo That am distraught wit[h] my self so That I ne wote what way for to torne Sauf by my self soleyn ...
— The Temple of Glass • John Lydgate
... anatomise, Almost unpeopling water, air, and land; Beasts, fishes, birds, snails, caterpillars, flies, Were laid full low by his relentless hand, That oft with gory crimson was distain'd: He many a dog destroy'd, and many a cat; Of fleas his bed, of frogs the marshes drain'd, Could tellen if a mite were lean or fat, And read a lecture o'er the entrails of ...
— Poetical Works of Akenside - [Edited by George Gilfillan] • Mark Akenside |
