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Meanings of tell falsehoods in English

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Usage of tell falsehoods in English
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Mrs. Callahan, aren't you ashamed to tell falsehoods-andbefore your little children, too?
Honey-Sweet
2
Those who speak the truth want the same thing as those who tell falsehoods.
Clerambault: The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War
3
He didn't know it was wrong to tell falsehoods, Marilla.
Anne of Avonlea
4
If her ear is wide, she will tell falsehoods.
Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen.
5
They cannot bear that other people should tell falsehoods and claim to imitate his great deeds!
Jonathan strange and mr norrell
6
Ten thousands, as Homer would say (mala murioi), tell falsehoods and fall into errors.
Sophist
7
They will be shocked to see that the popular papers accept money to tell falsehoods about fake cures.
Civics and Health
8
The worst of him was that, like Elizabeth, he thought kings and rulers might tell falsehoods and deceive.
Young Folks' History of England
9
Why should I tell falsehoods now?
The Duke's Children
10
Gentlemen do not tell falsehoods.
South Wind
11
Friend Hopper inquired whether he was not aware that it was wrong to tell falsehoods, and to get men drunk.
Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life
12
When they tell falsehoods against your religion, you will not, on account of your ignorance, be able to refute them.
Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 / An Explanation of the Baltimore Cat...
13
She was too brave to tell falsehoods to shield herself from any inadvertent wrongdoing, even if Cousin Elizabeth did sometimes say:
A Little Girl in Old Salem
14
Love a child and trust it, and if it does wrong, punish it neither cruelly nor unfairly, and it will never tell falsehoods.
Christian's Mistake
15
You know it is necessary, if ever it was, to tell falsehoods now; and don't be angry with me because I do it well.
Ruth
16
Nor should you hate a man who has a weakness for telling falsehoods.
The Rise of David Levinsky
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