446 examples of bespeaks in sentences

To my mind, it bespeaks a bad heart, and a woman with a bad heart cannot make a very amiable wife.

His careless committal of the ring to the ground (which he was commissioned to restore to Cesario), bespeaks a generosity of birth and feeling.

His careless committal of the ring to the ground (which he was commissioned to restore to Cesario), bespeaks a generosity of birth and feeling.

One sees by the care he takes of his outside, and the notice he bespeaks from every one by his own notice of himself, that the inside takes up the least of his attention.

Sedley insinuates gently into the heart, without giving any alarm, but is no less fraught with poison, than are those whose deformity bespeaks their mischief.

That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing.

I do not know whether he sang better or worse than Apollo; and I am sure it is much better, and bespeaks more sense, to play the flute ill than to play it well.

[Sidenote: Sir Palamydes bespeaks the Lady Belle Isoult] Now upon the evening of the second day of that tournament, Sir Palamydes came to where the Lady Belle Isoult was, and he said: "Lady, all these things I have done for your sake.

"There's a little canvassing takes place on these occasions," said Mr. Crummles, "among the patrons, and the fact is, Snevellicci has had so many bespeaks in this place that she wants an attraction.

For the present, however, every inn, homestead, and public building bespeaks prosperity.

Every line bespeaks the lady.

There are several country places on the banks, and the whole appearance bespeaks comfort and civilization.

The Births, Marriages, and Deathsand the Markets, and Price of Stocks, in small type, which well bespeaks their crowded interest, wind up the sheet.

There are the small bow windows, the little panes of glass, that are so suggestive of the architecture of a century ago, and outside the shop everything bespeaks a past which was not exactly of yesterday.

Silence is thrice enjoin'd; then thus aloud The king-at-arms bespeaks the knights and listening crowd: Our sovereign lord has ponder'd in his mind The means to spare the blood of gentle kind; And of his grace, and inborn clemency, 500 He modifies his first severe decree!

No storied urn bespeaks her worth.

It is exactly the sort of voice which bespeaks the goodwill of the hearer and recommends what it utters.

It is the intermittent fever which bespeaks unintermittent disease within; the occasional bubble escaping to the surface which betrays some rottenness underneath; a sample of the most hidden products of the soul dropt involuntarily when off one's guard; in a word, the lightning form of a hundred hideous and unchristian sins.

That magic laugh bespeaks thee prest As surely to another breast!

His private walk bespeaks him a devoted man.

Some censure this as lewd or low, Who are to Bounty blind; For to forget what we bestow, Bespeaks a noble Mind.' T. * *

It bespeaks a superior intellect, but paralyzed and spellbound by the sorcery of a worldly-minded expediency.

Who that hears of Columcille will forget how He won that name, "dove of the Church", because of his early piety, and that surely bespeaks a mother's guiding care.

"I know not what he avows, but his practice too plainly bespeaks his principles and views."

Trade and barter, no longer governed by a wild and speculative mania, rest upon a solid and substantial footing, and the rapid growth of our cities in every direction bespeaks most strongly the favorable circumstances by which we are surrounded.

446 examples of  bespeaks  in sentences