Sentences with phrase «telling yew»

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An old - fashioned house of gloomy appearance, closed in with high walls, with an iron gate, and yews, and the report attaching to it that «Roman Catholics» lived there; but who they were, or what they did, or what was meant by calling them Roman Catholics, no one could tell; though it had an unpleasant sound, and told of form and superstition....