- past tense form of bespeak.
bespake
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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No, his looks bespake no coldness; they dwelt upon Jacqueline's lovely but inscrutable face, with honest fervor and boundless regard.
From The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life by Anna Katharine Green
Right glad to see the envoys for his dear sister's sake Was the young knight Giselher, and friendly them bespake.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
Then bespake good Robin, In place where as he stood, "To-morrow, I must to Kirkesley Craftily to be let blood!"
From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various
And then bespake him the Greene Knight, 230 And these were the words said he: Saith, "I coniure thee, thou fowle feend, That thou feitch downe the steed that we see."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
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
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