Told

Examples

• I told his impudence that the gilt pestle and mortar was quite ornament enough; as if I was born, indeed, to be a country surgeon's wife! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Remember what I told you on the moor--and ask yourself what my assertion is worth. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• We went to the 'commissionaire' of the hotel--I don't know what a 'commissionaire' is, but that is the man we went to--and told him we wanted a guide. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Sixteen shillings sterling, we are told by Mr Byron, was the price of a good horse in the capital of Chili. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I must do what I am told. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But practical sense told them that sex cannot be confined within marriage. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• There were only these few words in her neatly flowing hand:-- I have told Mrs. Casaubon. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I told Catherine and Ferguson about him and Ferguson was very impressed. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• A dozen year,' he told her. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I won't look at him again, he told himself. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I hadn't any particular work to give him, but I had a number of small induction coils, and to give him something to do I told him to fix them up and sell them among his sailor friends. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He only told me a little about his parents and grandparents, and almost all in answer to my questions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• My father brought me to the door, not a minute ago, but unfortunately he was not told that you were here, and he has gone away on some business. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Why were we ever told to bring navy revolvers with us if we had to be protected at last by this infamous star-spangled scum of the desert? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He told me he had promised the Bishop to sign some kind of a petition against divorce. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.

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