 | James Eglinton Montgomery - History - 1869 - 576 pages
...gloves he wore when conducting Her Majesty up the starboard ladder and down the Admiral•s stairway. " I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as •twas said to me." The Empress was accompanied on this occasion by the Duchess of Bassano, chief Lady of Honor, and two... | |
 | 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
...louder, ran, And voices unlike the voice of man ; As if the fiends kept holiday, Because these spells were brought to day. I cannot tell how the 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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1872 - 848 pages
...louder, ran, And voices unlike the voice of man ; As If the fiends kept holiday, Because these spells were brought to day. I cannot tell how the truth may be ; I eay the tale as 'twas said to me. XXIII. " Now, hie thee hence,* the Father said, " And when we are... | |
 | M. C. Gray - 1874 - 338 pages
...attempting to exculpate either, or pretending to say which I think was the worst behaved of the two : " I cannot tell how the truth may be ; I say the tale as 'twas said to me." And as I wish to "say" it with as little digression as I can help, I must not pause to moralize on... | |
 | World - 1874 - 452 pages
...and was too much practised in sea sights to be taken in by appearances. For myself — 1 I know not how the truth may be, I say the tale as 'twas said to me." THE HISTORY OF A WONDERFUL DIAMOND. THE KOH-I-NOOR. THE Koh-i-noor, or Mountain of Light, is stated... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...! 0 high ambition, lowly laid ! Canto ii. St. 10. 1 was not always a man of woe. Canto ii. St. 12. I cannot tell how the truth may be ; I say the tale as 't was said to me. Canto ii. St. 22. In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed ; In war, he mounts the... | |
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I cannot tell how the truth may be : I say the tale as 'twas said to me. 
