spake out

Example Sentences

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The brown carles stayed 'twixt draught and draught, And murmuring, stood aloof, But one spake out when he had laughed: "God bless the Green-wood Roof!"

From Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough by Morris, William

Never one spake like He spake; and yet in this respect, so real was His humanity, He spake like us all--He spake out what was in Him.

From Our Master Thoughts for Salvationists about Their Lord by Booth, Bramwell

Then Beowulf spake out, on him shone the byrny, His war-net besown by the wiles of the smith: Hail to thee, Hrothgar!

From The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats by Anonymous

Am I so much to blame, that yesterday, when you were pleading   Warmly the cause of another, my heart, impulsive and wayward,   Pleaded your own, and spake out, forgetful perhaps of decorum?

From Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson, O. J.

And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.

From Our Lady Saint Mary by Barry, J. G. H.