"Tell on" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the fact that the fibre of her nature was exceptionally strong, her experience of this last hour had removed the most part of the oppression that had weighed her down for more than a twelvemonth—the doubt as to which way a discovery of his past would tell on her husband's love for her. She had no feeling now but anxiety on his behalf, and this really helped her towards facing the situation calmly. All things do that take ...
— Somehow Good • William de Morgan
... trips. We are, aren't we?" cried the happy Mother, hugging the little ugly dog in her arms. "And they won't know;—they can't laugh at us. We'll never let them know we couldn't bear it another minute, will we? The Boy sha'n't tell on us." ...
— The Very Small Person • Annie Hamilton Donnell
... "'Tell on,' said he, when the girl had put a spray bearing three blossoms into his buttonhole. 'Is it anything you want ...
— John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein • Frank R. Stockton
... fully, as I conceive, These materials of Prelacy are ordination." Remember you said, "many materials of Prelacy." I beseech you, Sir, How many is ordination? Ordination, ordination, ordination; tell on till you think you have made many materials; and, withal, tell us (if this be the meaning, that ordination should be retained without any power of ecclesiastical government in the ministry) how was it imaginable that he could hereby satisfy that scruple which then he spoke to, viz., the scruple ...
— The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) • George Gillespie
... flash of interest, "they's a queer thing about that. Now, lad, mark you! 'tis easy enough t' send messages Aloft; but when it comes t' gettin' a line or two o' comfort t' the poor damned folk Below, they's no mortal way that I ever heared tell on. Prayer," says he, "wings aloft, far beyond the stars, t' the ear o' God Hisself; an' I wisht—oh, I wisht—they was the same sort o' telegraph wire t' hell! For," said he, sadly, "I've got some news that I'd ...
— The Cruise of the Shining Light • Norman Duncan
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