How To Use Tidings In A Sentence
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But when he returned to his room to give his other half the glad tidings, the housekeeper, who was listening to the story, interrupted to tell them that she knew of plenty of empty rooms.
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He brought glad tidings.
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At the ingate to the Dale he found watches set, the men whereof told him that the tidings were not right great.
The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale
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Of course, the Prince continued to wonder with more than a little trepi - dation how his brother would receive these tidings, but it was a fear he easily suppressed.
Mortalis
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_What_ disaster it was that was thus knelled forth they knew not, and could hardly believe the tidings when given in articulate words.
Great Britain and Her Queen
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` ` See what tidings that horn tells us of --- to announce, I ween, some hership* and robbery which has been done
Ivanhoe
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This is a day of good tidings, and Montserratians, including this Chief Minister, can be forgiven for luxuriating in this occasion.
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Much to my dismay I am the bearer of bad tidings: Paramount has made the decision not to include even a single solitary supplement on this disc.
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I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but I'm quite certain life was not meant to be lived through an Excel spreadsheet.
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My father, being a senior consultant in a busy hospital, dragged us around the wards to spread good tidings to patients and to munch the array of nibbles in the nurses' rooms.
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The premier will woo voters with lots of glad tidings in the election season ahead.
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It is destined to drown all lesser years, even as sunrise dims the morning stars with day; it is a year bright with promise and bodeful with ill-tidings also; for in the world at this moment there exist stupendous differences that this year will go far to set at rest.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915
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His face said that the tidings were good, and yet she could not ask.
The Daisy Chain
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On the day after his return he received proper authentic tidings of his presentation to the prebend.
Framley Parsonage
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Everywhere are glad tidings and jubilation at the arrival of this month, the most floriferous of them all.
Greetings From Fairegarden-April Bloom Day 2010 « Fairegarden
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The unknown bird sometimes surrenders itself within the bars of the cage to whisper tidings of the bondless unknown beyond.
My Reminiscences
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I should over charge my weake head and greeve your tender hart; only this, I pray you prepare for evill tidings of us every day.
The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete
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Glad tidings of comfort and joy or a severe case of bah, humbug?
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But the next spring he dights his ship for Denmark, and there he was for another winter, and was well beholden withal, though tidings be not told thereof.
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It has been a pleasure to bring the good tidings to our public.
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Glad tidings of comfort and joy or a severe case of bah, humbug?
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Among the gladdest tidings of the season: the re-appearance of two classics by E.B. White, recorded unabridged, decades ago.
The New Oral Tradition
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messengers were moving unobtrusively over the jet-black mountain ranges, bearing confidential tidings from sheikhdom to sheikhdom
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This wish is warranted to perform within the usual implication of good tidings for a period of one year, or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting.
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The religion of love lives now, the Torah of forgiveness and pardon rules among the people… Now you'll see what glad tidings I will bring to you.
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In his desire to make himself utterly irrecognizable as the seafaring man who had carried the tidings of the murder to Mellish Park, the captain had tortured himself by substituting a tight circular collar and a wisp of purple ribbon for the honest half-yard of snowy linen which it had been his habit to wear turned over the loose collar of his blue coat.
Aurora Floyd. A Novel
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Expresses were daily despatched from the French camp to Rome, whence the ministers of the different European powers transmitted the tidings to their respective governments.
The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3
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This column wouldn't be doing its duty if it didn't bring you glad tidings of some seasonal cheer with a twist.
Times, Sunday Times
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a bearer of good tidings
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About mid-morning the London agent handling the new flat woke up and gave us the glad tidings that the rental will be available from tomorrow afternoon.
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He felt so strongly that in some way he was to receive tidings from his native land, that one day, when a travel-stained runner from the East was brought to his lodge, he at once asked "what word dost thou bring of the French?
The Flamingo Feather
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Early in the day his supporters had thought little of this, attributing the fall to that vacillation which is customary in such matters; but towards the latter part of the afternoon the tidings from the
The Way We Live Now
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Hamath is confounded -- at the tidings of the overthrow of the neighboring Damascus. on the sea -- that is, at the sea; the dwellers there are alarmed.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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GLAD tidings we bring for HGV driving!
The Sun
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Presently she anounced the glad tidings to her husband and led her usual life until her nine months of pregnancy were completed and she bare a male child whose face was as the rondure of the moon on its fourteenth night.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The tidings spread with wonderful rapidity in the wilderness of Judea.
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To convey his good tidings he lapses into party-animal mode, bellowing and boogalooing in the bleary, mega-groovy manner of his on-screen character.
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the conveyer of good tidings
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I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is quite unjust and sometimes demoralising to see how fate dishes out its own glad tidings.
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The African tradition of killing the bearers of bad tidings has always been strong in the ANC.
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Constantinople, whither the tidings preceded them that King Afridun had prevailed over the Moslems; so quoth the ancient dame, Zat al-Dawahi, “I know that my son Hardub, King of Roum, is no runagate and that he feareth not the Islamitic hosts, but will restore the whole world to the Nazarene faith.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Have you heard the glad tidings?
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They were the bearers to the world of glad tidings and great joy.
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It should not be surprising, then, that the bearer of the bad tidings that research in psychology does not validate ESP, is usually not greeted with enthusiasm.
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He was the bringer of great glad tidings; this was not time for trivial animosities.
GRACE
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As we warble about tidings of comfort and joy, we have cause to consider if we are all doing enough to bring such lyrics to life.
David Katz, M.D.: Dignifying Health: Why Not Quite Everything Is Relative
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His tidings were given slowly in short, terse sentences.
Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea
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It said some workers had already returned to work and other workers will get letters telling them the glad tidings soon.
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But therewithal came the tidings to Gudrun, and when she heard thereof she grew exceeding wroth, and cast her mantle from her, and ran out and greeted those new-comers, and kissed her brethren, and showed them all love, — and the last of all greetings was that betwixt them.
The Story of the Volsungs
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Tatar, Chinese, Japanese, Malay, or Polynesian sailors who drifted, intentionally or accidentally, to the Pacific coast in some unrecorded and prehistoric past, and from whom the men we call our aborigines probably are descended, sent back to Asia no tidings of what they had found.
Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682
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The film is shot in washed out colour and bears grim tidings for all who lament the earlier and earlier death of childhood.
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We have posted every published story regarding the riot because we thought that in many respects it was an omen of ill tidings for Minneapolis.
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He heard the tidings that Gunn, ruler of Tellemark, with his son Grim, was haunting as a robber the forest of Etha-scog, which was thick with underbrush and full of gloomy glens.
The Danish History, Books I-IX
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But this time there were no bad tidings.
Times, Sunday Times
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This closely corresponds to the Christian term, which, as derived from the Greek, reads "evangel" and in its Saxon equivalent "gospel" or "good tidings.
The Buddha A Drama in Five Acts and Four Interludes
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But at last rose up Stephen the Eater and spake: "Meat and drink and lodging is free without price to every comer to Wethermel, and most oft, as here it is, our good will goes with it; yet meseemeth that since these friends of ours come belike from the outlands and countries where is more tidings than mostly befalleth here, it might please them to make us their debtors by saying us some lay, or telling us some tale; for we be not bustled to drink the voidee cup now, these nights of Midsummer, when night and day hold each other's hands throughout the twenty-four hours.
The Sundering Flood
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One bitter, black hunting-day, a day keen and cold, with frost, as men feared, in the air, and with the ground so hard that even the Duke's peerless "dandies," perfect hounds though they are, scarcely could keep the scent, there came terrible tidings to the Hall -- he had met with a crashing fall.
Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida
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I was upset with my mother for reminding me of this on a night that I wanted to spend in thrall to the optimism of Christmas - fear not, for behold: I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people - and to the sweet prospect of waking up to tiny pajamaed children filled with glee.
Archive 2009-01-04
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The film ‘The Crow’ stands as both the herald of an undiscovered talent and the bearer of bad tidings that the world lost it.
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Just when you're all cranked up for tidings of comfort and joy, guess what?
Times, Sunday Times
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The conference keynote speaker and host was a pastor who prior to taking the pastorate at Glad Tidings, spent 10 years as an evangelist to the native nations in the United States and Canada.
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“The cuckoo is a pretty bird, she sings as she flies, she brings us good tidings and she tells us no lies” went the song, and Michael recalled that Mary Bright had sounded much sweeter than any bird when she sang that song.
The Sound Thief « A Fly in Amber
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Those working for the promotion of adoption too have glad tidings.
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But gladdest tidings: it's being revived as a musical.
Times, Sunday Times
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In other news, I went back to work for a few hours, sharing the glad tidings with my coworkers in such detail that one of my students asked me if someone had had a baby.
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But despite those measures, there will be no tidings of comfort and joy from the Chancellor today.
The Sun
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There were no guests either to bring tidings, for the priory was a marked place and it was well not to show or receive kindliness in its regard.
The King's Achievement
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Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Dog - teams carried the news to Salt Water; golden argosies freighted the lure across the North Pacific; wires and cables sang with the tidings; and the world heard for the first time of the Klondike River and the Yukon Country.
The Wife of a King
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And so by fortune tidings came unto a worthy man that hight Mondrames, and he assembled all his people for the great renown he had heard of Joseph; and so he came into the land of Great Britain and disherited this felon paynim and consumed him, and therewith delivered Joseph out of prison.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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See what tidings that horn tells us of -- - to announce, I ween, some hership Pillage. and robbery which has been done upon my lands.
Ivanhoe. A Romance
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Recent days brought tidings of an official invitation to Paris.
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Telford take the mickle brown aver and the black cut-tailed mare, and make out towards the Kerry-craigs, and see what tidings you can have of
The Abbot
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Better then valure, stronger then dietie, Whom men adore, and all the gods exhall Into the bookes of endlesse memorie, I bring thee tidings of a deadly fray, Begun in Heauen, to end vpon the Sea.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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With the air of a subordinate grieved at the necessity of being a messenger of ill tidings, and while conscientiously determined to be frank, yet equally resolved upon shunning overstatement, Claggart, at this invitation or rather summons to disburthen, spoke up.
Billy Budd
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See what tidings that horn tells us of -- to announce, I ween, some hership [12] and robbery which has been done upon my lands.
Ivanhoe
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The matter-of-fact mordancy of Emily Dickinson, the supreme poet of grief, may provide more balm to the mourner than the glad tidings of those who talk about how death can enrich us.
Archive 2010-01-01
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The honest man who brought the letter [he looks remarkably so; but had he a less agreeable counte-nance, he would have been received by us as an an — gel, for his happy tidings] was but just returnedfrom Windsor, whither he had been sent early in the morning, to transact some business, when he was dispatched away to us with the welcome letter.
Sir Charles Grandison
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Therefore no more do I put faith in tidings, whencesoever they may come, neither have I regard unto any divination, whereof my mother may inquire at the lips of a diviner, when she hath bidden him to the hall.
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And there is a marvellous custom in that country (but it is profitable), that if any contrarious thing that should be prejudice or grievance to the emperor in any kind, anon the emperor hath tidings thereof and full knowledge in a day, though it be three or four journeys from him or more.
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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Magdalena was found murthered in her Chamber, and tidings thereof carried to the Duke; present search was made for the bloody offendor, but Folco being fled and gone with Ninetta; some there were, who bearing deadly hatred to Hugnetto, incensed the Duke against him and his wife, as supposing them to be guilty of
The Decameron
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Glad tidings await professional ornithologists, amateur bird watchers and naturalists.
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In the summer of 2001, after some fruitless attempts at recovery, the bearer of bad tidings at Murrayfield informed him, erroneously as it turned out, that his playing career was over.
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In the Bay the tidings that reached them by Marconigram were evidently so carefully censored that out of them they could make nothing, except that the
Love Eternal
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Mistress Stagg, meeting her at the stairfoot with the tidings (just gathered from the lips of a passer-by) of Mr. Haward's illness, thought that the girl took the news very quietly.
Audrey
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He was the bringer of great glad tidings; this was not time for trivial animosities.
GRACE
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And where your ears are concerned, that's not necessarily glad tidings.
Christianity Today
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Jesus Christ, was that of prophecy: for the chief and principal end hereof in the church was to foresignify him, his sufferings, and the glory that should ensue, or to appoint such things to be observed in divine worship as might be types and representations of him; for the chiefest privilege of the church of old was but to hear tidings of the things which we enjoy, Isa. xxxiii.
Pneumatologia
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NASHIRA, γ _Capricorni_, "the fortunate one, or the bringer of good tidings.
A Field Book of the Stars
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Several of his less talented colleagues, I'm told, protested vehemently when they heard the glad tidings.
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She pursued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the King of France missed his daughter they brought him tidings of her, saying, “Thy yacht is lost”; and he replied,
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The moment I heard how you were beset," continued Bothwell, "I despatched a messenger to Lord Ruthven, warning him not to alarm Bruce with such tidings, but to send hither all the spare forces in Perthshire, to maintain you in your rights.
The Scottish Chiefs
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Each positive piece of economic news last fall was matched by equally bad economic tidings.
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If it had happened yesterday, you would have read about it on the internet, or received the bad tidings in an email or a text message.
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No one wants to debate the future of Britain, because of another fine old tradition the bearer of bad tidings always got the chop.
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Mrs Manning obviously intended to come as a bearer of good tidings.
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Ye feathered birds with necks outstretched, comrades of the racing clouds, on on! till ye reach the Pleiads in their central station and Orion, lord of the night; and as ye settle on Eurotas 'banks proclaim the glad tidings that Menelaus hath sacked the city of Dardanus, and will soon be home.
Helen
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Lady, he said, wilt thou not pardon me, that in the eager desire to hear tidings of my speech-friend I forgat all else.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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This March, there will be no such good tidings.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'd assumed, if not hoped, it to be similar to that in which I got my GCSE results: everyone all gathered together in a rather desperate noisy throng, jostling and japing outside in the late August sun, waiting to be let into that section of the school which had been specially opened up to dispense the good and ill tidings, everyone still in a holiday mood, nobody quite taking it seriously.
Archive 2006-08-01
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And often as he failed he would not be overweary; and once, when he was staying at Nuremberg and tidings came from Venice that a certain German who might be Herdegen was dwelling a slave at Joppa, he made ready to set forth for that place to ransom him forthwith.
Margery — Volume 06
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He was to be told in fact in the civilest words in which the tidings could be conveyed that Mr. Harding having refused the wardenship, the appointment had been offered to Mr. Quiverful and accepted by him.
Barchester Towers
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But on the opening of the busy week, yes, before we had closed our eyes in slumber on the Sabbath night, still more glorious tidings had come to us, and the joyous messages increased as each day brought us nearer to this day of blessed rest.
The Martyr to Liberty
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And often as he failed he would not be overweary; and once, when he was staying at Nuremberg and tidings came from Venice that a certain
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
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These would be glad tidings, if true, but they seem to me misleading.
Times, Sunday Times
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Atra they fared to Greenford, and there tarried a month, and sought tidings of many, and heard a word here and there whereby they deemed that Birdalone had passed therethrough some little time before.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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His very body had waxed old in lowly service of the Lord — in tending the fire upon the altar, in bearing tidings secretly, in waiting upon worldlings, in striking swiftly when bidden — and yet had remained ungraced by aught of saintly or of prelatic beauty.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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See chapter sixty-one, verse thirteen: `... help from Allah and a speedy victory; so give glad tidings to the Believers.
KARA KUSH
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I work for a cash-strapped council trying to impart good tidings to all while sending a message to those who hold the purse strings.
Times, Sunday Times
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Can we offer them tidings of comfort and joy, or do we simply close our doors?
Times, Sunday Times
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I was upset with my mother for reminding me of this on a night that I wanted to spend in thrall to the optimism of Christmas – fear not, for behold: I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people – and to the sweet prospect of waking up to tiny pajamaed children filled with glee.
Clockwatching | Her Bad Mother
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The tidings of 'Change' which sent the nation in euphoria with the coming of Obama have evaporated.
'People have a right to be grouchy,' Axelrod says
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THEN King Pelles came to Sir Launcelot and told him tidings of his brother, whereof he was sorry, that he wist not what to do.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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The sad tidings of his sudden passing were received with much regret and neighbours and friends rallied around Patricia and family in their time of grief.
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These are tidings of great joy.
Times, Sunday Times
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I crossed over no conventicle, nor did I meet with ill tidings.
Nothing At All
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But the bad tidings of the season are worse than the cost of some new school shoes.
Times, Sunday Times
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No one wants to debate the future of Britain, because of another fine old tradition the bearer of bad tidings always got the chop.
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Joshua Green writes, "In every Moore crowd an undercurrent of messianic zeal is detectable, and here a few zealots buttonholed passersby, animated by communist infiltrations and dark tidings of the Bavarian Illuminati.
Letters to the Editor
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Some of us went thither after a time, when our horses were shodden and rasped, for although we might not like the man, we might be glad of his tidings, which seemed to be something wonderful.
Lorna Doone
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And his daughter in law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.
Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
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In every Moore crowd an undercurrent of messianic zeal is detectable, and here a few zealots buttonholed passersby, animated by communist infiltrations and dark tidings of the Bavarian Illuminati.
Roy and His Rock
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Now so it is, that whoso heareth these tidings sayeth, that no such an one as was Sigurd was left behind him in the world, nor ever was such a man brought forth because of all the worth of him, nor may his name ever minish by eld in the Dutch Tongue nor in all the Northern Lands, while the world standeth fast.
The Story of the Volsungs
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To be named top dog among 140 regions from all corners of the continent is no mean feat, and we should all rejoice at such glad tidings.
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The sad tidings were received with a sense of total disbelief.
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If I should write to you of all things which promiscuously forerune our ruine, I should over charge my weake head and greeve your tender hart; only this, I pray you prepare for evill tidings of us every day.
Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts
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Let me be the first to give you the glad tidings.
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If there was overoptimism, to what extent was it shaped by a White House intolerant of bearers of bad tidings?
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Not all of its tidings were good.
Times, Sunday Times
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The idea of involving my wife in this little spat that they're having with me because I was the bearer of bad tidings was neither honorable or dignified, quite apart from whether it was legal or illegal.
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‘Lady,’ she croaked out, ‘I have ill tidings, and I am afeard.’
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As soon as a wisp of snipes arrive, off starts our mercury with the glad tidings.
