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Example sentences for "cannot speak"

  • I doubt not that however changed, you keep So much of what is graceful: and myself Would shun to break those bounds of courtesy In which as Arthur's Queen I move and rule: So cannot speak my mind.

  • And now she is dead I fear for thee from the Crafty One's perfidy and mischief; but my throat is choking and I cannot speak.

  • And indeed I fear for thee, O my cousin, from her malice; my heart is full of anguish for thee and I cannot speak.

  • And there will be the further finding hereafter, about which we cannot speak.

  • And the other side of the same principle works in some terrible ways that we cannot speak about.

  • I cannot speak to anything of that kind being done of my own knowledge.

  • I believe it has existed; but I cannot speak so positively about it on other estates.

  • Not to my knowledge; but I have not had that matter through my hands lately, and I cannot speak to it with certainty.

  • I should think so; but I cannot speak positively on that point.

  • So be it, provided no allusion is made to the cause of our quarrel; for I warn you that I cannot speak of it and keep my head cool.

  • My darling, I cannot speak to you openly, unless you give me your word to do what I am going to ask you.

  • The Polish monarch, of whom I cannot speak in too favourable terms, was yet weak enough to listen to the slanderous reports against me, and refused to make my fortune.

  • I am so astonished,' said Ferdinand, 'that I cannot speak.

  • Hatton and I 'shook hands' on it we would say nothing to any one of our knowledge, and I cannot speak of it.

  • I--Mrs. Miller, forgive me, but it is a matter I cannot speak of.

  • Yes, two or three more, I regret to say, but I have not full particulars yet and cannot speak of them.

  • But I cannot speak of it, it brings my poor half-crazed father back to earth, and I see him again before me, a victim to his trust in a woman.

  • But I cannot speak calmly of him or of any other man in connection with yourself.

  • I cannot speak to private gossip on this subject, nor even to well-authenticated versions of his private life.

  • We cannot speak dispassionately of an influence that has been so dear to us.

  • At the time when the nomadic nation of the Hebrews entered Canaan, it first, so to speak, produced out of the ancient myth the first elements of a religion; we cannot speak of a system of religion existing in that age.

  • For this reason I have not discussed Jahveism till now; which will be approved by all who see that we cannot speak of ideas as existing and living until they appear as factors in the history of human thought.

  • However, we cannot speak here of any exact number of years, but only indicate in general terms periods of various classes of culture.

  • We cannot speak of a consciousness of God, a sensus numinis, as existing in the earliest Mythological period.

  • And so long as a man breathes, he cannot speak, he offers all the while his speech in his breath.

  • In short, Sir, I cannot speak my Mind freely to him, but I either swell or rage, or do something that is not fit for a civil Woman to hear.

  • If I observe he cannot speak, Ill give him time to recover himself, and ask him how he does.

  • My lord, believe me, though I cannot speak," he choked and turned away.

  • I cannot speak of this with you," answered Marius hotly.

  • And from my brain to my dull brow The heavy tears gather and flow: I cannot speak: Oh, let me weep!

  • Will you deign to meet me then, and hear my words, for here I cannot speak them?

  • We know not--we cannot speak," answered the foremost of the party.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    artificial light; being discovered; cannot answer; cannot avoid; cannot come; cannot comprehend; cannot conceive; cannot deny; cannot describe; cannot express; cannot forbear; cannot have; cannot here; cannot hold; cannot imagine; cannot know; cannot make; cannot omit; cannot pass; cannot possibly; cannot recall; cannot stand; cannot write; general conceptions; literally means; when the water boils