Example Sentences

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The father arose; his eyes flashed lightning; and though his shape was speakingly beautiful, yet his whole frame appeared a highly susceptible fluid, which betrayed every affection in manifold and enchanting undulations.

From Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. by Hardenberg, Friedrich von

He held out his hand and clasped hers speakingly, the lips unbent then, though they went back to the grave lines of thought and interest and purpose.

From Say and Seal, Volume II by Warner, Susan

Choose thee Him, and thou art silently speaking, and speakingly silent, fastingly eating, and eatingly fasting, and so forth of all the remenant.

From The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 by Gardner, Edmund Garratt

There is nothing so naturally, speakingly, and gloriously English in the wide world as she. 

From A Walk from London to John O'Groat's by Burritt, Elihu

So far as I see, humanly speakingly, none.

From A Mad Love by Brame, Charlotte M.