 | Albert Deane Richardson - History - 1869 - 664 pages
...a flourishing town sprang up around the little grocery, it was named by common consent Sheboygan. ' I cannot tell how the truth may be ; I say the tale as 'twas told to me.' CHAPTER VIII. EXCITEMENT now ran high. Force was almost the only law. Civil war seemed... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...man of woe. Canto ii. Stan2a it. * Noiseless foot of time. AlCs Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3. I cannot tell how the truth may be ; I say the tale as 't was said to me. Canto ii. Stan2a 22. In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed ; In war, he mounts... | |
 | Elizabeth Penrose - 1871 - 592 pages
...Hurrah! for the jolly tars: I hope the story is true, for the honour of the British navy ? MTS. M. " ^ cannot tell how the truth may be : I say the tale as 'twas said to me." Before we dismiss from our memories Louis XVI. " and his times," it will not be uninteresting to take... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1872 - 178 pages
...sobs, and laughter louder, ran, And voices unlike the voice of man ; As if the fiends kept holiday, Because these spells were brought to day. I cannot...truth may be ; I say the tale as 'twas said to me. CANTO SECOND. 37 XXV. sun had brighten'd Cheviot grey, sun had brighten'd the Carter's side; son beneath... | |
 | Mrs. Molesworth - 1872 - 314 pages
...church. Now comes the queerest part of the story. Pray remember, I do not vouch for its correctness. " I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as 'twas said to me." — All this time, whether the fighting was over or not, nothing had been heard of the husband. The... | |
 | Margaret Jane Eiffel Brown - 1913 - 316 pages
...louder, ran, And voices unlike the voice of man; As if the fiends kept holiday, Because these spelle were brought to day I cannot tell how the truth may be; I веу the tale as 'twas said to me." Scott, Poetical V.orks, I. 80-81. Such suggestions as these mske... | |
 | Francis Ellington Leupp - Washington (D.C.) - 1915 - 416 pages
...which appeared most probable or most picturesque, falling back upon the plea of the Last Minstrel : " I cannot tell how the truth may be ; I say the tale as 'twas said to me." And now, let us be off ! FEL WASHINGTON, DC, August i, 1915. Contents PREFACE CHAPTER I. A CAPITAL... | |
 | Maine Federation of Women's Clubs - Maine - 1916 - 450 pages
...the same reason that the wise hostess saves the rarest bits for the dessert that follows the dinner. "I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me." Few of the visitors to the old town of Wiscasset realize that just across the bridge, in full view... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1916 - 166 pages
...CONCLUSION BY MIDSUMMER AND THUS RENDER A GREAT SERVICE TO CIVILIZATION. Mr. President — I can not tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me. This came to my ears in such a way, with such a concurrence of testimony, with such internal and external... | |
 | Henry Albert Collins - 1918 - 234 pages
...Celebration 201 XLII Hallowe'en 206 XLIII The Wedding 211 XLIV The Fifth Anniversary 217 CHAPTER I A NEW DEAL I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 't was said to me. —Sir Walter Scott. NA summer day as Reverend Elias Crawford and his good wife... | |
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Tis said, as through the aisles they pass'd, They heard strange noises on the blast ; And through the cloister-galleries small, Which at mid-height thread the chancel wall Loud sobs, and laughter louder, ran, And voices unlike the voice of man; As if... 
