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  • So we'd get these invitations to major conferences through our fake Web sites for big corporations, and we'd go and speak,

    Vickie Karp: Third Screen: How Now Dow... Chemical? 2009

  • “Only,” said the Countess, making an effort to speak,

    Quentin Durward 2008

  • I can know a man by his voice, and if he won't speak,

    Balkinization 2006

  • I can know a man by his voice, and if he won't speak,

    Balkinization 2006

  • The landlord, who had apparently resolved to remain neutral until he knew which side of the question the stout man would espouse, chimed in at this place with ‘Ah, to be sure, can’t you let him speak,

    The Old Curiosity Shop 2007

  • Give sorrow words (says Shakspeare) — The grief that does not speak,

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • His mastery of meters was very great; and, if the beauty of a drama depended upon the variety of measures in which the personages speak,

    Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf 2004

  • “Ah!” he had said to Bosinney when he could speak,

    The Man of Property 2004

  •   And now she weeps, and now she fain would speak,

    Venus and Adonis 2004

  • For what thou professest, a baboon, could he speak,

    Pericles, Prince of Tyre 2004

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