Poor thing, she's no younger than she was yesterday, and it tells upon her.

She was planning to tell Deirdre about him upon her return.

They tell them immediately, hard upon the death, before the news can appear on the Internet or in the local paper.

Inaction began to tell upon the spirits of the men.

He was amazed, and stood a while telling upon his fingers, but said nothing.

The cold is perhaps beginning to tell upon me, and nature must have rest some time.

Lie had been pressed into service for which he was not especially fitted, and it told upon him.

In two or three weeks this began to tell upon my strength and spirits.

These things told upon his good-nature, such as it was.

In the course of time it told upon his temper.