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Word: spake (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Then that one spake the irrevocable doom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SILVER CHALICE. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

Then from his seat spake Tristram: "Father, thou said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SILVER CHALICE. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

This gentleman, on hearing my question, assumed a very judicial air, and for a time spake nothing. Not a spear of his untrimmed red hair, curled up at the extremities like a roof-gutter, trembled. Indeed, I grew impatient of his long delay, when suddenly I discovered that his lips had been moving, and he had in fact just come to the end of a sentence, expressing his opinion. I began to think that if silence was golden, speech must also be golden, since they were so nearly indistinguishable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MY CLOTHES. | 12/9/1881 | See Source »

...towld me I'd see the way he'd spake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR PROFESSOR CHILD'S COLLECTION. | 6/3/1881 | See Source »

...angel spake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A QUESTION OF TIME. | 3/25/1881 | See Source »

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