 | English literature - 1846 - 526 pages
...and that the return sea had brought them back, such was his story, I did not see it. I cannot tell how the truth may be, I tell the tale as 'twas told to me. He also said, that when in the same ship she had been struck with lightning, which entered the pantry,... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 404 pages
...what I have stated. The separation took place on the discovery : — • for the rest, — I know not how the truth may be, I tell the tale as 'twas told to me. MATDRIN. THE FORTUNES OF MARTIN WALDECK. THE solitudes of the Harz forest in Germany, but especially... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 408 pages
...was what I have stated. The separation took place on the discovery : — for the rest, — I know not how the truth may be, I tell the tale as 'twas told to me. MATLRIN. FORTUNES OF MARTIN WALDECK. THE solitudes of the Harz forest in Germany, but especially the... | |
 | 1829 - 606 pages
...re-establishedhis reputation, if I was correctly informed ; for in regard to this part of my story, " I cannot say how the truth may be — I tell the tale as 'twas told to me." r A story was breathed to somebody, (from whom I lately received it,) in friendly confidence, 'under... | |
 | Charles Joseph Latrobe - Christian poetry - 1837 - 296 pages
...to such or similar stories, he would not altogether shield himself under the excuse, ' I cannot tell how the truth may be, I tell the tale as 'twas told to me,' for he has no desire to give to an idle fiction the colouring of truth. He would leave it for others... | |
 | Charles Joseph Latrobe - Christian poetry - 1837 - 300 pages
...to such or similar stories, he would not altogether shield himself under the excuse, 1 1 cannot tell how the truth may be, I tell the tale as 'twas told to me,' for he has no desire to give to an idle fiction the colouring of truth,. He would leave it for others... | |
 | 1841 - 908 pages
...in the Island of Hawaii (tit Owyhee of Cook,) the writer should have inscribed, " I cannot say liow the truth may be, I tell the tale as 'twas told to me ;" for he professes so to do, only that in his mouth the t»i« •falls short of reality.' If so,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Farnham - Indians of North America - 1843 - 336 pages
...to the place of departure. This is a mountain legend, interesting, indeed, but — " I cannot tell how the truth may be, I tell the tale as 'twas told to me :" At day-light, on the 30th, our cavalcade was moving across the woody ridges and verdant valleys... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1844 - 336 pages
...when it was pitch dark?" " I suppose there were lamps in the court," said Rupert, " but I cannot tell how the truth may be, I tell the tale as 'twas told to me." " But who told you, Rupert ?" said Helen. " Why, the story of Red Mantle, Helen, cannot you see ?"... | |
 | Sir Richard George Augustus Levinge - Canada - 1846 - 302 pages
...that the return sea had brought them back : such was his story — I did not see it. I cannot tell how the truth may be, I tell the tale as 'twas told to me. He also said that, when in the same ship, she had been struck by lightning, which entered the pantry,... | |
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I cannot tell how the truth may be, I tell the tale as 'twas told to me. 
