bespake
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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And then bespake the stringes all three, With, &c.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
Then bespake him Sir Marramile, And these were the words said hee: "Riding of this steed, brother Bredbeddle, 240 The mastery belongs to me."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
Thus he bespake the conqueror, "You for my grief shall pay; Of many a valiant champion you've robb'd us here to-day."
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
Then bespake him the Greene Knight, These were the words said hee: 220 Saies, "I doe coniure thee, thou fowle feend, In the same licknesse thou stood unto me."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
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