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Definition of Tells
1. tell [v] - See also: tell
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tells
Literary usage of Tells
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Samuel Thurber (1896)
"Accursed be that tongue that tells me so, --, And be these juggling fiends no
more believed, J , \ j^S.MO^ That palter with us in a double sense; 61, ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Lancisi [De subit, morte, I (Geneva, 1718), xix, §3] tells of cases in which ...
Edinburgh, 1907) tells one patient that whenever he feels the pulse, ..."
3. Othello by William Shakespeare (2001)
"... the progression of the story; and the narrative in the end, though it tells
but what is already known, yet is necessary to produce the death of Othello. ..."
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