Word: spake
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...going to try to make the Senate interesting. ... I am going to make a fight to have everything done in the open and aboveboard. I want no secrecy. I will try to have executive sessions abolished entirely." So spake Senator-elect Cole L. Blease, ebullient Democrat from South Carolina, as he was looking over Washington, preparatory to taking office...
...Then up spake the erstwhile Judge of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, Lord Darling, a learned man famed for his ironic wit. Said...
...Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon...
...tone-poem, Aus Italien, which contains a characteristic Strauss mood: "Melancholy Feelings While Basking in the Sunniest Present." Then followed his famous series of dazzling orchestral tales, path-breaking in form and harmony: Macbeth (1890), Don Juan (1888), Death and Transfiguration (1889), Till Eulenspiegels Merry Pranks (1895), Thus Spake Zarathustra (1896) and Don Quixote (1898) with its notorious sheep-bleating episode...
...take it. Not because we want it. Has anyone here been so foolish as to hasten the demise of a father who is about to leave him a bankrupt estate ? We know there are risks on every side, but if there are risks there is also a cause." Thus spake Ramsay MacDonald at the Royal Albert Hall in London at a Labor rally...