bespake
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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The ferryman wax'd furious when Hagan there he found; Thus he bespake the hero, and speaking darkly frown'd.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
Then bespake Little John, To Much he 'gan say: "I dare lay my life to wed These monks have brought our pay!"
From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various
And then bespake Sir Bredbeddle, And these were the words said he: "Why, I will wrestle with yon lodly feend, God! my governor thou shalt bee."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
And then bespake Sir Bredbeddle, 265 To the feend these words said hee: Says, "I coniure thee, thou Burlow-beanie, The powder-box thou feitch me."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
And then bespake him noble King Arthur, These were the words said hee: "I doe not know that comly King, 85 But once my selfe I did him see."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
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