Now begone!'" Beppo ceased speaking, and a shuddering silence fell on the listeners.

He was of all men the most humble; yet this did not prevent his speaking honestly and openly when he considered by so doing he could be of service.

I remember his speaking of her.

"Because, if you'll excuse my speaking plainly, I think you owe anything you may have to spare to your niece, Mrs. Snow;" and, having freed his mind, Van joined Toady, ready to fly if necessary.

He would get back in time to hear the speaking in the afternoon.

After two months of enforced silence, she was buoyant in reaching the British Islands once more, where she could enjoy public speaking and general conversation.

In 1785 a contemporary noted that "the General is remarked for writing a most elegant letter," adding that, "like the famous Addison, his writing excells his speaking," and Jefferson said that "he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and correct style.

This exemplifies Steele's speaking of "sin as a fine gentleman.

His mouth had a peculiar twist, somewhat resembling that of Mathews, which at times almost forbad his plain speaking.

Solon prohibited costly sacrifices at funerals; he forbade evil-speaking of the dead, and indeed of all persons before judges and archons; he pronounced a man infamous who took part in a sedition.

The beauty and diction of his speech fostered future parliamentary speaking.

They were paid teachers, and sought pupils from the sons of the rich,the more eminent of them being Protagoras, Gorgias, Hippias, and Prodicus; men who travelled from city to city, exciting great admiration for their rhetorical skill, and really improving the public speaking of popular orators.

The nation, never destined to acquire political union in the Renaissance, possessed at last an intellectual unity in its painters and its students, which justifies our speaking of the great men of the golden period as Italians and not as citizens of such or such a burgh.

"Madam," said I, "the clear stars are not fouled by throwing filth at them, nor yet the Lady Helenewhom I do acknowledge that with all my heart I loveby the speaking of any ill words.

It doesn't matter our speaking like this before her.

"I hope she has a fortune, if you don't mind my speaking of it: I mean some of the money we didn't in our time haveand that we missed, after all, in our poor way and for what we then wanted of it, so quite dreadfully.

Apparently the age needed plain speaking, and Carlyle furnished it in scripture measure.

A somewhat unusual note, however, was struck in an act of 1730 which while penalizing with stripes the speaking by a slave of such words as would be actionable if uttered by a free person provided that in his defence the slave might make the same pleas and offer the same evidence as a freeman.

She had come to see that Juliet required very plain speaking.

Now I see what a duffer I wasMadge told me afterward that she asked only because she was so frightened and confused that she felt she must stop my speaking for a moment.

If I didn't know you for the American you are, I wouldn't understand your speaking so calmly.

"If you had your freedom," said she, "would you go back to your own country?Your breakfast is cooling, Sir." Manuel looked at her,she bore his scrutiny with composure,then he came to the table, sat down, and broke his bread, before he answered this bold speaking.

"Yet it is sufficiently important to warrant my speaking to you about it.

She prayed that He would bless her speaking, so that many people would believe in the Lord Jesus and be saved forever.

The secular historians of our day would call him arrogant, like the courtiers of Arcadius, who detested his plain speaking and his austere piety; but the poor and unimportant thought him as humble as the rich and great thought him proud.