Spoken

Examples

• I have as yet spoken as if the varieties of the same species were invariably fertile when intercrossed. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• I knew Mrs. Reed had not spoken for days: was she reviving? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Not a word had been spoken during the present session on any of these topics. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He described her ladyship as willing to acknowledge that she had spoken over-hastily. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• She would have spoken to tell her husband her fears, but checked herself. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• There is _one_ person in company who does not like to have Miss Price spoken of. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Aye, very true, my dear, cried the latter, though Jane had not spoken a wordI was just going to say the same thing. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Thou hast spoken the Jew, said Rebecca, as the persecution of such as thou art has made him. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• After the destruction of Palmyra, the desert Arabs began to be spoken of in the Roman and Persian records as Saracens. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• When he had spoken some sound words of sympathy and encouragement, we sat down to consider the question, What was to be done? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• While these words were being spoken Miss Fairlie looked down at the table beneath her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• We are obliged to you for the plainness with which you have spoken. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Bell has often spoken to me about it. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I have spoken of the impression of flabbiness which this man Blessington conveyed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• It was spoken very respectfully, but very firmly at the same time--and it had its effect on my mistress as well as on me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He made some motion with his mouth, and seemed to think he had spoken; but he had only pointed to her with his outstretched hand. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• If my aunt's maid and the other woman have spoken the truth, you may depend upon it the tradesman did meet her. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The voice of the submissive man who had spoken, was flat and tame in its extreme submission. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• It will be better that you should speak to her any way, than that she should not be spoken to at all. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Ada said it to me, but I had not spoken. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She is not a clever girl, but she has better sense than you are aware of, and does not deserve to have her understanding spoken of so slightingly. Jane Austen. Emma.
• In the valley, near the Acropolis, (the square-topped hill before spoken of,) Athens itself could be vaguely made out with an ordinary lorgnette. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The words she had spoken to Laura by the shores of the lake, the very words had now come true. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• With a human being I have never spoken, except once with Jane Porter, by signs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The Doctor looked at him for a moment--half inquiringly, half as if he were angry at being spoken to--and bent over his work again. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend and school companion. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• It was after this that Loerke, who had never yet spoken to her personally, began to ask her of her state. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• I have spoken to her times and again, but she don't notice! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Thank you, my dear,' he said, as if she had spoken; 'I am all right, my dear. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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