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  • So I myselfe like others made expressely clear that with Rome we do not mean "the Roman Church" but the person of the Pope - but you supress this and answer as if I would have speaken of "the Roman Church".

    Tissier de Mallerais speaks The details of the doctrinal talks 2009

  • “No speaken English,” the man said, still smiling and nodding in a friendly way.

    The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

  • Thank you to all the fine active duty and veteran women, service people who have just speaken -- spoken -- speaken -- I can't even talk, I'm so excited.

    President At Military Women Memorial Groundbreaking ITY National Archives 1995

  • “No speaken English,” the man said, still smiling and nodding in a friendly way.

    Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 1985

  • "No speaken English," the man said, still smiling and nodding in a friendly way.

    Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry 1985

  • "No speaken English," the man said, still smiling and nodding in a friendly way.

    Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry 1985

  • An so it made him awful proud, you speaken to him thataway.

    The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954

  • “In Latin and French hath many soueraine wittes had great delyte to endite, and have many noble thinges fulfilde, but certes there ben some that speaken their poisye in French, of which speche the Frenchmen have as good a fantasye as we have in hearying of Frenchmen’s Englishe.

    The Mutability of Literature 1914

  • When it come ter dat, we ain't ez much ez speaken ter um, an 'here dey come, bangin' aloose at us.

    A Little Union Scout Joel Chandler Harris 1878

  • * "In Latin and French hath many soueraine wittes had great delyte to endite, and have many noble thinges fulfilde, but certes there ben some that speaken their poisye in French, of which speche the Frenchmen have as good a fantasye as w ave in hearying of Frenchmen's Englishe."

    The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon Washington Irving 1821

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