Speaks

Examples

• One often speaks of a ring as being 14-carat gold, or of 22- or 18-carat watch cases or jewelry, but do all of us know just what we mean by 14, 18 or 22 carat? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But (lowering her voice)nobody speaks except ourselves, and it is rather too much to be talking nonsense for the entertainment of seven silent people. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Only it's dull enough to sit in a room where everything speaks to you of a dead friend. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Do not make a fool of thyself and I will try not to make a fool of myself talking with people who cannot understand what one speaks of. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• And he speaks uncommonly well--does Casaubon. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I believe this simile largely speaks the truth. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• He neither speaks nor understands any European tongue--and his ornaments and weapons are those of the West Coast savages. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Miss Verinder suddenly comes out of her room, and speaks to me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Condé, in his history of the Moors in Spain, speaks of them as used in that country as early as 1118. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Differing though they may in tongue and skin, in thought and religion, in physical development and clime, the telegraph speaks to them all alike, and by all is understood. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I find her what he represents her, to the best of my judgment; and my mother speaks of her with great commendation. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• And he always blinks before he speaks. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But I believe I am nice; I do not like strange voices; and nobody speaks like you and poor Miss Taylor. Jane Austen. Emma.
• He has no curiosity or care for the scene about him, and always speaks to the girl. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• This gentleman speaks of footsteps in the grass, but, after all, it is easy to be mistaken on such a point. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Ah, heaven, she gifs me the name that no one speaks since Minna died! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The figure speaks. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Unquestionably, he said, the wise man speaks with authority when he approves of his own life. Plato. The Republic.
• To-day the cable with the still small voice, more divine than human, speaks with one accent to all the nations of the earth. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Again he speaks, as Englishmen to-da y very well might, of the neglect, disdain even, of the country for great intellectual men, especially in the realm o f exact science. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• They are very sociable, and will smile back when a stranger smiles at them, bow back when he bows, and talk back if he speaks to them. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• This one speaks worse than the Reds. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It is not in his own cause that he speaks now--it is in thine. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Even the reactionary press speaks in a kindly way about these men. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• On the contrary, there is something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Each one speaks according to his manner. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Your face speaks the truth this time. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Who are you who speaks out of the darkness? Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• How cool that woman is, said one; what airs of independence she assumes, where she ought to sit still and be thankful if anybody speaks to her! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Veneering is talking with his other next neighbour, and she speaks in a low voice. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

Checker: Merle