spake

• “His voice did he keep under/and ne'er a word spake he.”

  The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original

• “After the first three minutes he forgot his burden and never a word spake he.”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 11, 1920

• “Not a word spake he for a full minute, but he drew his breath hard, flinging out at length a bitter sarcasm on the faithlessness of women, and bidding Raphael trust not too much to their promises, he abruptly left us.”

  Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance)

• “But presently, when he came back to bed, he lay very still and cold, and when we rose in the morning never a word spake either of us of what had passed that night.”

  Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess

• “And never a word spake Fafnir, but his eyes waxed red and grim”

  The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs

• “Then never a word spake Siggeir, save: "Where be Volsung's sons?”

  The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs

• “But never a word spake his son, but stood looking straight forward, cold and calm by seeming.”

  The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale

• “So she rose from under him in silence and answered not his address nor spake a word of reply to him, being dazed for what had befallen her and seeing nothing better than to be silent, for fear of shame; and she bethought herself and said, “If I kill myself it will be useless and if I do him die, his death will profit me naught;” and presently added,”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “When she came in she sat still like ane dazed and spent, and never a word spake she.”

  Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not

• “Sling Stranaslang, how Malo-razzias spikes her, coining a speak a spake!”

  Finnegans Wake

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