Word: tell
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that she was somehow restless; and after supper, when I had drawn my chair before the glowing wood-fire, "Let me tell you a story, Mira," I said. And with that she seated herself by my side, and, slipping her little hand in mine, she listened dreamily...
...have only just come back," said he. There is nothing new to tell you; nothing new ever happens here. Stay; there is a little change: an old ape and his daughter have just come from the South. No one knows more of them than that he is a celebrated philosopher. The girl is pretty enough, but insignificant. There is no force in her, and beauty of the highest type cannot exist without force. But, speaking of them, I remember that they have not yet seen me; I must step in a moment, to countenance their arrival. Good-evening...
...girl under extremely favorable circumstances will do very well, but I tell you when you have nine of them, all with entirely different inclinations and propensities, to which you must conform your own, it makes a fellow long again for those happy ante-woman days when Adam could go fishing all the morning, and play tennis all the afternoon, in the delightful consciousness that as yet there was no Eve shrieking out the kitchen window that if he wanted any dinner he'd better come home and start the fire, and he need n't use any kerosene either...
...girls," said I, "You can't imagine how awfully comical Jack is; it's really painful at times. Why, he'll make you laugh till you shed every gray hair in your head. Talk about Mark Twain, - I tell you after you've been in the room with Jack half an hour you can take any story of Mark Twain's you please, and 't would make you weep to read it, it would seem so serious and sorrowful...
...Tell me truly, dainty fairy...