Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...never saw such a change as came over her face. First she seemed too much surprised to speak; then she knit her forehead and clinched her little hands...
...understand at first; she looked at her feet : her boots were who shall say how high, and no tell-tale color showed. Then she looked up at me, "But -" And then it flashed over her. Her color, deep already, rose to her forehead. She did not speak, but rose and sailed out of the room...
...those in Holyoke are plastered. Grant, however, that the new iron staircase is desirable, which we do not attempt to deny, if the College can afford to make a useful improvement in one building, then, a fortiori, it can afford to make indispensable improvements in others. We know we speak to deaf ears, but it is better to be a Cassandra than no prophet...
...Speak gently...
...They speak a language all their...