Use speak in a sentence
Sentences starting with speak
- Speak up, man; you are forgiven for deserting us. [9]
- Speak it everywhere with your tongue. [11]
- Speak out--and I warn you before you begin, that I don't believe a word of it. [5]
- Speak I not truly, Master, that she will be well speedily? [3]
- Speak of your trouble, whether it be of the mind and body, or of the soul. [11]
- Speak not of them, but look, and pass them by. [6]
- Speak freely of the man whom the King delighteth to honour. [11]
- Speak of the sun and you see its rays! [2]
- Speak for me, Saadat. [11]
- Speak to the poor devil, Fielding," he added quickly, in a low tone. [11]
Sentences ending with speak
- If this be your will, and the will of the great Cumner, speak. [11]
- O lady, to your liegeman speak. [11]
- For whom do you speak? [11]
- I wished she would speak. [5]
- We mingled companionably with the great folk who flocked to the big house to make Joan's acquaintance, and they made much of us and we lived in the clouds, so to speak. [5]
- To those, however, who really love the Union may I not speak? [7]
- There was another who read the account of the exercises with intense interest, a gentleman of whom we have lately forborne to speak. [9]
- The people were white with wrath, and it tied their tongues for the moment, and they could not speak. [5]
- And for a while, as she stood lost in contemplation, he did not speak. [9]
- Only the words which I speak. [11]
Short sentences using speak
- He would speak with thee. [11]
- Always speak the truth. [12]
- Were you going to speak? [11]
- Then he began to speak. [11]
- Ikni knows how to speak. [11]
- He was about to speak. [11]
- Then Peter began to speak. [10]
- Won't you speak to me--Antoinette? [9]
- May I speak to him? [2]
- Did voices speak to him? [11]
Sentences containing speak two or more times
- I speak in the name of our order, I speak for Frenchmen, I speak for France. [11]
- It is so that she would speak to you herself, and in her name it is that I speak now. [12]
- She would not speak to him; of that she was sure, and equally sure that he would not speak to her. [9]
- G. Oh, lady, speak once more; sweet Amelia, on, speak again. [5]
- Evidently she could speak of Russia's misfortunes with a certain artificiality, but her brother was too near her heart and she neither could nor would speak lightly of him. [2]
- Did not the Son of Heaven say that we speak of the end of a superior man, but we speak of the death of a small man? [11]
- However," he added, seeing Victoria hesitate, "if there is any reason why you should not care to speak to Mr. Flint--" "Oh, no," said Victoria; "I'll speak to him, certainly. [9]
- He might speak once, he might speak twice, he might speak thrice, but would it ever be the same as the look that needed no words? [11]
- Your clergymen speak of 'the Lawd,' ours of 'the Lord'; yours speak of 'the gawds of the heathen,' ours of 'the gods of the heathen. [5]
- But we'll speak of that later on," she added, glancing at Sonya with a look that showed she did not want to speak of it in her presence. [2]
More example sentences with the word speak in them
- Take leave of your wife, and (I speak by the king's command) be ready to start before dark. [10]
- If he--" "Shut your mouth, let Ingolby speak for himself," snarled the big river- driver. [11]
- You have heard your mothers and fathers speak of Aunt Patty, my dears, and they will tell you how she spoiled them when they went a-visiting to Gordon's Pride. [9]
- No, I suppose your husband did not speak much of his old friends. [11]
- It is in your hands; it is all in your hands; and I cannot speak unless--unless you are ready also. [11]
- I quite understand you; and until I feel that you have good reason once more to respect the maniac who lost you by his own fault, I, who fought you like your most deadly foe, will not even speak the final word. [10]
- When I've told you, then you must say whether you will have anything to do with it, or with me.... You remember," he continued, without waiting for her to speak, "you remember that day upon the Ecrehos--five years ago? [11]
- If it interests you, speak out. [5]
- I will tell you, so far as I am authorized to speak for the opposition, what we mean to do with you. [7]
- I will tell you, as far as I am authorized to speak for the Opposition, what we mean to do with you. [7]
- I'll speak for you, and with me many a good man in the magistracy. [10]
- Under these circumstances you will readily see why I should not speak in detail of the course I shall deem it best to pursue. [7]
- But see, if you will let a poor man speak his mind, if I were you I'd not impose the command on Mr. [11]
- What right have you to speak to me? [5]
- But why don't you speak to them? [9]
- What is it you speak of? [9]
- She of whom you speak is the wife of another. [10]
- When I hear you speak I want to shut my eyes, I am so happy; and every word of mine seems clumsy when you talk to me; and I feel of how little account I am beside you. [11]
- Ay, then, but you shall speak, or I'll break my word to her, to do right by her son. [11]
- I still owe you my after-dinner speech, but you must let me off, for I can't speak your language fluently. [10]
- If there are, you might speak of the renewed activity and all that sort of thing, in the hay business, you know. [5]
- I have known you long, and I am not ignorant of all your brilliant qualities, but you must not speak to me of love. [6]
- Belward continued: "What you hear me tell is what you can speak of; otherwise you are blind and dumb. [11]
- The events of yesterday; painful and agitating as they had been, had fallen away in the prospect that lay before him--he would see her to-day, and speak with her. [9]
- After all these years was he going to speak of Philip? [11]
- It was fifteen years since Soolsby had been in this room; and then he had faced this man's father with a challenge on his tongue such as he meant to speak now. [11]
- I could have wrung his neck, and I didn't speak to her for a month. [9]
- Tom said it would take him days to get so he wouldn't forget he was a deef and dummy sometimes, and speak out before he thought. [5]
- I think he would force all this country to speak English in two months. [4]
- The man, however, would concede nothing but a permission to speak with his captive. [10]
- My word "fountain" would be correct; it would speak the strict truth; and it would convey the strict truth to the handful of Syrians, and the strictest misinformation to the North American millions. [5]
- It will be worth your while to speak out, I assure you; much better worth your while than you believe. [12]
- Howsome'er, aw've a worrd to speak i' thy ear. [11]
- Let time and works speak, and Cecil will give the thing a push at the proper moment. [9]
- He repeated the words that he had written to this effect on a tile, and which requested Publius to come quite alone to the spot indicated, since she dare not speak with him in the temple. [10]
- But speak in words of living power, --They fall like drops of scalding rain That plashed before the burning shower Swept o'er the cities of the plain! [6]
- Why speak, when words cannot express what one feels? [2]
- And not a word would she speak to Chartersea the whole of the dinner, nor look to the right or left of her plate. [9]
- At three o'clock word was sent in that Mr. Austen Vane was outside, and wished to speak with his father as soon as the latter was at leisure. [9]
- The prince has wooed her, so to speak, on the highway, but if she now comes with me he can enter the palace of kings as suitor to a princess, and the marriage feast I will provide shall be a right royal one. [10]
- He had sometimes wondered, when he had been compelled to speak about his visits to the financier, how McCrae regarded them. [9]
- Dear, light of womanhood, I speak the truth now. [11]
- Then, to the woman: "Annette, you have heard me speak of this gentleman? [11]
- When the old woman went on: "I must speak with you. [10]
- I set that woman on to speak to you the way she done. [8]
- He would speak with your excellency, I doubt not," he added. [11]
- I will speak with you to-day at any hour you may demand it. [10]
- I answered him with what carefulness I could, and brought round the question of your death, by hint and allusion getting him to speak of the mode of execution. [11]
- Then have done with that cursed head-shaking, and speak out at once! [10]
- I must speak with proper deference to the lady who is scrubbing my floors, when I remember that her husband, who saws my wood, carries a string of high-sounding titles which would satisfy a Spanish nobleman. [6]
- It is different with me: I speak only what I truly mean. [11]
- I may speak with less restraint of those gentlemen who have aided me in the most laborious part of my daily duties, the Demonstrators, to whom the successive classes have owed so much of their instruction. [3]
- Dick's face whitened with his thoughts, but he kept still until he could speak calmly. [6]
- I will speak with him alone.--You, my friends, withdraw with our idiologos, the priest of Alexander, who is well known here, and visit the city. [10]
- So he answered with evident satisfaction: "I rejoice that we can speak without an interpreter. [10]
- I speak English with equally good accent," he added, with the glimmer of a smile; for there was a kind of exhilaration in the little contest, even with so much at stake. [11]
- He may speak with confidence before me. [10]
- Then, approaching him with both arms extended joyfully, she exclaimed: "Thus you ought to speak and feel, and therein is the answer to the question which has agitated my soul since yesterday. [10]
- The British speak with appalling frankness of their blunders. [9]
- She seemed to wish to speak, to be unable to. [9]
- She did not wish to speak with him now, nor to be near him yet; she wanted this day for herself only. [11]
- He felt a wish to speak to the stranger, but by the time he had made up his mind to ask him a question about the roads, the traveler had closed his eyes. [2]
- But--for Heaven's sake!--you will swear--fool, that I am--you will swear not to speak of it! [10]
- When a man will not speak, will not lie to gain a case for his lawyer--or save himself, there is something! [11]
- Of course he will never speak of his kindnesses. [9]
- I hope these will be attended to; I do not wish to have to speak of it again. [5]
- It was a wild and ear-splitting tumult; to Melissa, however, neither painful nor pleasing, for the one idea, that she must speak with the great physician, silenced every other. [10]
- The water-bearers of whom you desired to speak to me do not interest me--I care no more about them than about the swallows flying over the house yonder. [10]
- For Dr. Leigh, whom she had sought out several times, was reserved, and did not voluntarily speak of Father Damon; she had heard that he was throwing himself with more than his usual fervor into his work. [4]
- But all others whom I have heard speak assail it furiously. [7]
- The English critics, who say we have taken the government from the capable few and given it to the people, speak of universal suffrage as a quack panacea of this "era of progress. [4]
- Let any one who doubts, carefully contemplate that now almost complete legal combination-piece of machinery, so to speak compounded of the Nebraska doctrine and the Dred Scott decision. [7]
- But few people who are not on the inside, so to speak, grasp the fact that big corporations, like the Railroad, are looked upon as fair game for every kind of parasite. [9]
- When I saw whither my footsteps were directed I said nothing, nor did Gabord speak at all. [11]
- Our inland population, while they tolerate him, speak of him with contempt. [6]
- The manner in which, after he permitted her to speak, she had disclosed in a low whisper her happy yet disquieting secret, hovered before him now as one of the most pathetic incidents in a life full of varied experiences. [10]
- The act of which I speak was this. [5]
- And this contribution, which I desire to be understood to mean when I speak of literature, is precisely the thing of most value in the lives of the majority of men, whether they are aware of it or not. [4]
- He was selfish where this young gentleman was concerned, yet he knew well how the same gentleman ought to think, speak, and act. [11]
- It was only when they had stopped before the door that she trusted herself to speak. [9]
- The time came when they associated The Man with The Stone: they grew to speak of him simply as The Man. [11]
- Late one night, when the delegates were gone, Stephen ventured to speak what was in his mind. [9]
- After this explanation, when I speak of Number Five or Number Seven, you will know to whom I refer. [6]
- At first, as when I left the governor at Lachine, I said, 'I will never speak, I will never ask nor bend the knee. [11]
- To be passive, when David in Egypt had asked for active interest; to delay, when urgency was important to Claridge Pasha; to speak coldly on Egyptian affairs to his chief, the weak Foreign Secretary, this was the policy he had begun. [11]
- I shall read what you and other good men write, as I have always done, glad when you speak my thoughts, and skipping the page that has nothing for me. [6]
- To speak of what would have happened had Napoleon sent his Guards is like talking of what would happen if autumn became spring. [2]
- Oh, my lord, what was there in me that you dared speak so to me? [11]
- Still, if from what she has done an inference is sought to be drawn as to what I would do, I may without impropriety speak out. [7]
- She saw with what quiet Michel bore his arrest, and she said to herself, as the last halberdier vanished: "If the Queen do but speak with him, if she but look upon his face and hear his voice, she must needs deal kindly by him. [11]
- I only speak what is in my mind with my usual crudeness. [11]
- When I heard what had happened here I wanted to speak, but who listens to a cricket while it thunders? [10]
- Now you see what a power Carnegie is, and how far his voice reaches in the several lines I speak of. [5]
- As the two were going to their room in silence a temple-servant called to Klea, desiring her to go with him to the high-priest, who wished to speak to her. [10]
- His previous testimony went rag by rag to ruin under her ingenious hands, until at last he stood bare, so to speak, he that had come so richly clothed in fraud and falsehood. [5]
- This lady," Orpheus went on--he not only played the flute but took the higher parts for a man's voice and could also strike the lyre--"desired us to go to her later at her own house, where she would speak with us. [10]
- He said: "I went ashore at Naples one voyage when I was in that trade, and stood around helping my passengers, for I could speak a little Italian. [5]
- It is not well; when writing an autobiography, to follow your ancestry down too close to your own time--it is safest to speak only vaguely of your great-grandfather, and then skip from there to yourself, which I now do. [5]
- It is not well, when writing an autobiography, to follow your ancestry down too close to your own time--it is safest to speak only vaguely of your great-grandfather, and then skip from there to yourself, which I now do. [5]
- I speak French well, I presume, but I spoke it from the cradle. [11]
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