He felt sick about saying good-bye like that.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
In 1919 he was travelling on the railroads in Italy carrying a square of oilcloth from the headquarters of the party written in indelible pencil and saying here was a comrade who had suffered very much under the whites in Budapest and requesting comrades to aid him in any way.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
The lieutenant kept riding his horse out into the fields and saying to him, “I’m drunk, I tell you, mon vieux.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
We went along the road all night in the dark and the adjutant kept riding up alongside my kitchen and saying, “You must put it out.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
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Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— something said
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Macmillan
— a well-known statement about what often happens in life
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Other Word Forms
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Usage
4 uses of ‘saying’ in In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
35 uses of ‘saying’ in Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
11 uses of ‘saying’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
4 uses of ‘saying’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle