Tiding

Examples

• I was this moment telling Jane, I thought you would begin to be impatient for tidings of us. Jane Austen. Emma.
• See what tidings that horn tells us of--to announce, I ween, some hership [12] and robbery which has been done upon my lands. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Tidings of an armed and regular opposition recalled them to a sort of order. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The sensation is heightened as the tidings spread from mouth to mouth that the beadle is on the ground and has gone in. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I never hear tidings from Alderworth unless you bring them. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Mr. Bertram, said she, I have tidings of my harp at last. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• MY DEAR BROTHER, At last I am able to send you some tidings of my niece, and such as, upon the whole, I hope it will give you satisfaction. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Mr Wegg chuckled, consequently, when he heard the tidings. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Anyhow, from India tidings of his death reached home, within ten years. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Each vessel in the mean time brought exhilarating tidings from Greece. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• These tidings were at first whispered about town; but no one dared express aloud the soul-quailing intelligence. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• When I took the tidings home, our father's heart burst; he never spoke one of the words that filled it. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I have little of importance to say, lady, answered Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert, excepting the confirmed tidings of a truce with Saladin. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Although in one instance the bearers of not good tidings, Mr. and Mrs. Weston's visit this morning was in another respect particularly opportune. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I have tidings for him. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

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