Word: tell
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have been imposed upon the English by mistaken scholars. It is such a grammar that has weighed down our poor, be-parsed English speaking people, so that when their freedom was proclaimed a few years ago, and a man in whom some of them put some trust dared to tell them that they might fling off their incubus in the name of great common sense, from every country where English is spoken there came back to him cries of relief and utterances of hearty thanks, which have not yet died away.- Richard Grant White...
...sudden grapple and the terrible struggle, upon which the cold stars gazed down so unpityingly? No eye saw the savage blow, no ear heard the victim's shriek, as he was flung from the parapet. The night was deaf, and the darkness was blind, and nothing remained to tell the story but the clotted handful of the murderer's hair which the police took next morning from the rigid fingers of his victim. A bulky and heavy sack, stained crimson, is silently brought to the river side at dead of night, and its contents are dropped noiselessly into the stream...
...various ways; if a new force, springing uncaused into existence, becomes an agent or factor in his choice; will not the consciousness of guilt be explained? I think not. For if the same man in the same circumstances can make various decisions, how does his decision tell us anything about the true, permanent nature of he man? Whence the significance of his choice if, without being other than he is, he might choose differently? If a new force, springing uncaused into existence, becomes an agent or fact in his choice, is he not there by relieved of all responsibility? Surely...
...Bohn's various series, yet much the larger number of "Bohn's" translations are comparatively worthless; and it is astonishing that readers with any literary training themselves can fail to see this-to feel it, even when they do not know the originals; just as one can tell whether a portrait is a likeness or not without seeing the person...
...writer of the faulty expression cannot conceal his embarrassment, when he hears his own blunders publicly laughed at. It is humiliating enough to hear one's own mistakes read before a class, but much more irritating is it to hear an instructor ridicule an unfortunate attempt to tell about the death of a brother. Even if an instructor has no delicacy in mortifying a student in the presence of his classmates, still it would be supposed that the instincts of a gentleman would cause him to hesitate in publicly ridiculing an expression which was intended to narrate a most painful...