"Dost thou speak truth, lad?" "I fear my King too much to speak otherwise, unless, indeed, it were to save his life.

Jill Marie Haycox (W); 2Jan58; R205356. No-speak pass.

Manhattan oases; New York's 1932 speak-easies, with a gentlemen's guide to bars and beverages by Gordon Kahn; introd.

I dare not, in this era of refinement, speak plainer, but will take for granted that I am understood.

What stories it could tell, if it could but speak-stories of sorrow, stories of evil, tales of the little kindnesses which the freemasonry of the opium-club teaches men to do unto one another.

Did ever I in willing conference Speak words, made half with tears, that I did love thee?

The stables were empty and had been tentatively cleaned out, the coach-house was vacant, and presented no traces of recent use excepting a half-bald spoke-brush.

Thou wert my Spokes-man unto Katherine And treacherously thou stol'st away her heart.

And who so gloomy and thoughtful as Beltane, unmindful of the youthful knight who went beside him, and scarce heeding his soft-spoke words until his gaze by chance lighted upon the young knight's armour that gleamed in the sun 'neath rich surcoat; armour of the newest fashion of link, reinforced by plates of steel, gorget and breast, elbow and knee, and with cunningly jointed sollerets.

"Should any dissatisfied noble speak ill of the Government, he shall first be forbidden to appear in the councils and public places for two years.

At length, as though impelled by another changeful impulse, the Rover advanced towards Gertrude, and, addressing her with a courtesy that would have done credit to a very different scene, he said, in the laboured language that characterised the politeness of the age, "One who in common speaks music should not have neglected the gifts of nature.