1396 collocations for spoken

He spoke a few words with him, as a countrymanW. being half Scotchhis mother was born Chisholm.

It is unquestionably true, that if travellers sometimes impose on the credulity of mankind, they are often also not believed when they speak the truth.

One would play and one would sing (rather like the song in the children's book, "one could dance and one could sing, and one could play the violin"), and the third, the polyglot of the family, could speak several languages.

Almost all my son's friends speak English perfectly.)

Mr. Gladstone made himself quite charming, spoke French fairly well, and knew more about every subject discussed than any one else in the room.

' 'Don't speak as if I were a baby!' 'Do you mind telling me what we're quarrelling about, my dear?

I speak the Indian tongues, and there's few alive that ken the tribes like me.

For e'er I saw Mr. Bellmour, you spoke the kindest things of him, As would have mov'd the dullest Maid to love;

Mrs. Hemans found peculiar pleasure in reading and speaking German.

At the meeting he spoke a little, and pleased the people.

" I was silent, and after a pause she went on "It is not for me to advise you; but" "Speak your thought, now and always, Eveena.

That is sufficiently pathetic to speak volumes of what it is to be born in the purple, as was Wilhelmina of the Netherlands.

Buckheath had been a week at the Himes boarding-house, finding it not unpleasant to show Johnnie Consadine how many of the girls regarded him with favour, whether she did or not, when he came to supper one evening with a gleam in his eye that spoke evil for some one.

This artificial language is hardly a link between Osmanli officialdom and the Turkish peasantry of Anatolia, which speaks Turkish dialects derived from tribes that drifted in, some as late as the Osmanlis, some two centuries before.

He glanced apprehensively behind him as if afraid of the dead man appearing at the door to rebuke him for presuming to speak ill of him.

They were here then, speaking the Spanish their ancestors had learned three hundred years ago and more.

He kept his counsel and spoke all men fairly, giving nowhere any manner of offense: for could he tell in what unlikely guise might wait the instrument he needed wherewith to work out his unfaltering purpose?

I speak peace to him that is near, and to him that is far off, saith the Lord; and I will heal him.

which at the command of the Gymnosophists, of upper Egypt, spoke to Apollonius, "The voice," says Philostratus (Vit.

But you speak Russian, Mr. Alexis?"

And in the frequent repetition of the Pater Noster, we speak Christ's sentiments and words.

The lady from Amsterdam was particularly accomplished, and versed not only in several modern languages, but in Greek and Latin, speaking fluently the Latin, of which the Colloquies of her great countryman, Erasmus, furnish so rich a store of phrases for ordinary dialogue.

Buntline, who was taking the part of "Cale Durg," appeared, and gave me the "cue" to speak "my little piece," but for the life of me I could not remember a single word.

No evangel among all the mountain plants speaks Nature's love more plainly than cassiope.

And tho' my stammering tongue be dumb, and like a broken lute, And in its loudest efforts to speak thy praise be mute, It can at least announce to thee, loud as the thunder's peal, The service that I owe to thee, the passion that I feel.

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