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Sentences starting with spoken

Spoken language is so plastic,--you can pat and coax, and spread and shave, and rub out, and fill up, and stick on so easily when you work that soft material, that there is nothing like it for modelling. [6]
Spoken speech is one thing, written speech is quite another. [5]

Sentences ending with spoken

You have not your match here in Alexandria, no, nor so far as Greek is spoken. [10]
The head tells you pretty promptly whether the food is satisfactory or not; and everybody hears, and thinks the whole man has spoken. [5]
And you never would have spoken! [9]
Hitherto not a word had been spoken. [10]
I loved him with my whole heart, and I knew that he felt the same toward me, though no words had been spoken. [5]
The plain and wholesome language of Emerson is on the whole more needed now than it was when spoken. [6]
In that small white house must the fair pale Selene be sleeping, but though he rowed hither and thither, backwards and forwards, he could not succeed in discovering the window of which Pollux had spoken. [10]
Mr. Dodd knew well enough that this was not ignorance on the part of Mr. Graves, whose position in the matter dad been very well defined in the two sentences he had spoken. [9]
Not a word was spoken. [9]
The delight that was in my heart showed in my face, and the man saw it and was pleased; saw it so plainly that he answered it as if it had been spoken. [5]

Short sentences using spoken

He had spoken without bitterness. [9]
You have spoken two. [11]
Monsieur had spoken terrible things. [11]
Had she indeed spoken? [10]
The king hath spoken. [5]
No word was spoken. [11]
So, they had spoken! [11]
Have you spoken of this? [9]
Truer word was never spoken. [5]
A different man had spoken. [13]

Sentences containing spoken two or more times

There is a prejudice against the spoken lie, but none against any other, and by examination and mathematical computation I find that the proportion of the spoken lie to the other varieties is as 1 to 22,894. [5]
I won't hear it spoken of," said the princess in the same petulantly playful tone in which she had spoken to Hippolyte in the drawing room and which was so plainly ill-suited to the family circle of which Pierre was almost a member. [2]

More example sentences with the word spoken in them

Trying to play yourself for a stranger and an innocent!--why, I knew you before you had spoken seven words; and I made up my mind to find out what was your little game. [5]
Oh, where was your spoken eloquence now! [5]
When I saw you there beside Duncan I remembered that he had spoken about the Guardian letters, and the notion occurred to me to get him to show you his library. [9]
I've lived with you for over thirty years, and I haven't spoken my mind often, but I'm speaking it now. [11]
I am jealous, yes, I own I am jealous of any word, spoken or written, that would tend to impair that birthright of reverence which becomes for so many in after years the basis of a deeper religious sentiment. [6]
Instead of the yearning for John, of which Wolf had spoken and she, blind fool, believed, he thought of him with petty fears of the claims by which he might injure his favoured brother. [10]
The words she would have spoken would not come. [9]
And now I would have spoken had not Mademoiselle astonished me by taking the lead. [9]
There were three worlds here--that of Jack, to which Edith belonged by birth and tradition and habit; that of which we have spoken, to which she belonged by profound sympathy; and that of Father Damon, to which she belonged by undefined aspiration. [4]
And those spoken words, in their grim note to his ear, as well as contents to his mind, told Venters that he was all but drifting on a current which he had not power nor wish to stem. [13]
After saying those words, Clement had turned very courteously to him, and they had spoken with each other. [6]
Commonplace as the words were, they thrilled him, for he thought of a table of his own in a home of his own, and the same words spoken everyday, but without the "Sergeant,"--simply "Tom. [11]
Hardly were the words spoken, when Dorothy ran to my bedside, and seizing my hand, faced him. [9]
There are some words spoken in one's life which can never be forgotten. [10]
Hodder recalled the words Mr. Bentley had spoken, "It is her place. [9]
And how few words in secret had we as yet spoken, how little had we discussed what might befall on the morrow, and how he should demean himself to his mother! [10]
Without a spoken word she had told him so. [11]
I did not wonder then, but I have since thought it remarkable that the words spoken low by both of them should have been caught up on the banquette and passed into the street. [9]
He had spoken without feeling the absurdity of the proposal. [11]
Her name spoken within the hall startled Virginia from her reverie, and she began to walk rapidly down the winding drive. [9]
She had spoken with the soft irony of truth, the blind tyranny of the just. [11]
Once, when Paulina, with tears in her eyes had spoken to her of her lost daughter, Arsinoe had been softened and following the impulse of her heart, had confided to her that she loved Pollux the sculptor and hoped to be his wife. [10]
Hylda had spoken with sorrowful decision, and then this pause had come, in which Faith tried to gain composure and strength. [11]
Pollux had spoken with much warmth, but Selene's last words startled him and checked the effervescence of his feelings. [10]
He was furious with her, furious with himself for having spoken that which might be construed into a confession. [9]
My heart beat with fears; every word spoken by the old Dame would of a surety do us a mischief. [10]
He was breathless with agitation, his face was red, and when he heard some French spoken he at once began speaking to the officers, addressing first one, then another. [2]
Pierre had spoken with a slow force and precision, yet, as he went on, his eyes almost became fixed on those shifting flames, and a deep look came into them, as he was moved by his own eloquence. [11]
He had spoken with a deep power, such as I knew he could use, and I did not wonder that she paled a little, even trembled before it. [11]
He it was who, in sarcasm, had spoken of this young stranger as "The Man from Outside. [11]
An old nurse who saw him at the very earliest period of his existence is said to have spoken of him as one of the most promising infants she had seen in her long experience. [6]
The second Elder who had spoken was he who had once heard Luke Claridge use profane words in the Cloistered House. [11]
One of these--he who had spoken of his brother--was her little favourite and friend, and often sat by her side in the church, or climbed with her to the tower-top. [12]
Formerly the hosts who came from the east, and fell on our land like swarms of locusts, robbing and destroying it, were spoken of as 'a curse' and a 'pest. [10]
As to the Whig men who have participated in the war, so far as they have spoken in my hearing they do not hesitate to denounce as unjust the President's conduct in the beginning of the war. [7]
The trees from which the fine fruit I have spoken of, came, had been planted and replanted sixteen times, and to this treatment the proprietor of the orchard attributed his-success. [5]
That word oblivion, which Mrs. Rindge had so aptly applied to the horse, was constantly on her lips, and it would not have surprised her if she had spoken it. [9]
The summer-house of which Mr Quilp had spoken was a rugged wooden box, rotten and bare to see, which overhung the river's mud, and threatened to slide down into it. [12]
The day of which I have spoken a storm had set in, the rain falling in sheets. [9]
She was wondering whether he could ever love a woman as he loved this man of whom he had spoken, whether he could be as true to a woman. [9]
But often nowadays, when you a mile-long sentence from you given and you yourself somewhat have rested, then must you have a touching inquisitiveness have yourself to determine what you actually spoken have. [5]
In an age when nastiness was written as well as spoken, and when most travelers felt called upon to satisfy a curiosity for prurient observations, Smith preserved a tone quite remarkable for general purity. [4]
There were times when Jim's nerves were shaken in his struggle against the unseen foe, and he had spoken to her querulously, almost sharply. [11]
Was it because when he had once spoken so crudely of the University I had seen the reflection of her spirit in his eyes? [9]
Of course, Mr. Wetmore's spoken to him about you, and it's a shame that he hasn't been near us. [8]
The other dishes were what one might get at Delmonico's, or Buckingham Palace; those I have spoken of can be had in similar perfection in New Orleans only, I suppose. [5]
As the words were spoken a sigh broke from her, and there came to Philip's mind that distant day in the council chamber at Bercy when for one moment he was upon his trial; but he did not turn and look at her now. [11]
Our fathers said we were disgracing our families, and they commanded us to purge ourselves of our lie, and there was no limit to their anger when we continued to say we had spoken true. [5]
You see, it wasn't what Faddo said about himself that made Laney wild, but that about his brother Tom; and a man doesn't like his brother spoken ill of by dirt like Faddo, be it true or false. [11]
He said it wasn't anybody's fault but his own--he wouldn't say any more than that, except that he hadn't spoken to her. [9]
Self-centered as Lise was, absorbed in her own trouble and present physical discomfort, this unaccustomed word from her sister and the vehemence with which it was spoken surprised and frightened her, brought home to her some hint of the terror in Janet's soul. [9]
How strange it was that one should read so truly without words spoken, or through seeing acts which reveal. [11]
Not a word was spoken, till the, travellers stopped before the charcoal-burner's house. [10]
Not a word was spoken, not a hand moved, when he ceased speaking. [10]
Scarcely a word was spoken by his captors, and he did not know who they were, until, after a long detour, he was brought inside a manor-house, and there, in the light of flaring candles, faced Perrot and Iberville. [11]
Not a word was spoken by either of them till the hunter had disappeared. [10]
Not a word was spoken as Pango Dooni and his company galloped towards the front of the Palace. [11]
He knew he was not spoken to now with any indolent purpose. [11]
But now--now something was brought home to her of the magnificent certainty with which they must first have been spoken, of the tone and bearing and authority of him who had uttered them. [9]
Whatever has been was a dream; whatever is now"--and he folded her hand in his--"is real; and there is no such thing as forgiveness to be spoken of between us. [11]
His feelings were very quick, and before she had spoken fifty words the underglow of his eyes was flooded by something which might have been mistaken for tears. [11]
She had spoken very often of the two sisters, who, she said, were like dear friends to her. [12]
Mr. Flint looked up from the papers, and regarded him narrowly, for the tone in which this was spoken did not escape the president of the Northeastern. [9]
It was an unspeakable joy to me to be able to assure her of Herdegen's faithful love, and to repeat to her the many kind words he had spoken concerning her. [10]
While they are trusted and used, and worked to death, one is apt to hear them spoken of in a deprecatory tone. [4]
I did not trust my own judgment as to those letters, but I took them to an author whose name is known wherever English is spoken, but which I will not mention. [9]
His mind was troubled, too, that he had spoken while yet Luke Claridge lived, and so broken his word to Mercy Claridge. [11]
She had that touching stillness about her which belongs to animals that wait to be spoken to and then look up with a kind of sad humility. [6]
He knew this tone in his master's voice, for thus he was accustomed to reprove bad scholars and erring priests; but to him he had never yet so spoken. [10]
We have sung to you; we have spoken to you; we have told you what is in our hearts; we have shown you how good is the end of those who are faithful, and how terrible is the end of the traitor. [11]
Has he spoken to you of going away? [2]
The Seigneur Duvarney, to whom I had not yet spoken, nor he to me, stood leaning against the wall, gazing at me seriously and kindly. [11]
No other clergyman to whom he had spoken on this subject had given evidence of this strong feeling, and the rector of St. John's was the last man from whom he would have expected it. [9]
You have but to summon one of the rascals, promise him a bit of war interest, and he will leave you as much as you desire, and nothing spoken. [9]
She knew how to step better than I, and there were many awkward things between us of late best not spoken of. [9]
It was necessary to say something for the poet's sake,--perhaps for Susan's; for she was in a certain sense responsible for the poems of a youth of genius, of whom she had spoken so often and so enthusiastically. [6]
From December, 1797, to October, 1799, he remained with Dr. Holyoke as a student, a period which he has spoken of as a most interesting and most gratifying part of his life. [3]
He's never spoken to me of any book. [9]
While you speak to me I see all those"--she made a gesture as though to put something from her "all those to whom you have spoken as you have done to me. [11]
McChesney has spoken to me about this wild notion of yours of going to Vincennes, and Cowan and McCann and Ray and a dozen others have dogged my footsteps. [9]
In writing once to his partner in Montreal he had spoken of Pierre as "an admirable, interesting scoundrel. [11]
She had stood to him a second time as a model for his work, had spoken to him many times, and when last they parted had promised to allow him this very evening to study once more the folds of her mantle. [10]
He needed not to have spoken for her to have felt that. [9]
What she had to confide to Tabus was intended for her alone, and experience taught how far spoken words could be heard at night over the water. [10]
Yet the pilgrimage to Compostella, of which the confessor had spoken? [10]
My second visit to Cambridge will be spoken of in due season. [6]
I'm not used to being spoken to as if I were the foreman of a shop, and told to discharge a sensitive and cultivated man like Lindau, as if he were a drunken mechanic; and if that's your idea of me--" "Oh, hello, now, March! [8]
He told me to ask old Throw Hard, the Indian helper, if he had spoken the truth. [11]
To none but Timotheus, the high-priest of Serapis, had he spoken graciously. [10]
Up to that time, the old man had not spoken once--except to her--or stirred from the bedside. [12]
Up to that time the wretch had not spoken a word; now he pushed himself forward, though well clear of me. [9]
He had never, till it was taken ill, even touched it, nor spoken to it. [11]
He helped her thus in a dozen unobtrusive ways, never once recognizing her ignorance; but he made her feel the more that that ignorance was a shameful thing not to be spoken of. [9]
Of the first three gentlemen I have either spoken elsewhere or may find occasion to speak hereafter. [6]
For the last three days Paulette Dubois had turned a sorrowful face upon them, and with one hand upraised had spoken the prayer, the prophecy, the thanksgiving, the appeal of humanity and the ages. [11]
How delicate, she thought, must be his understanding of her, that he should have spoken so! [9]
If you hadn't thought such foolish things about me, I should never have spoken of my watch up yonder. [10]
I had spoken, though indeed it seemed to have had no effect. [9]
She felt that though he had never spoken of love to her, she had a right to share his troubles. [11]
But spoken by those solemn lips to those stern, simpleminded hearers, the words I have cited seem to me to have a fragrance like the precious ointment of spikenard with which Mary anointed her Master's feet. [6]

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