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Example sentences for "speak plainly"

  • If I am a prisoner, speak plainly; if not, I will take my freedom to depart.

  • To speak plainly, Arturo, you are a gentleman of great polish.

  • Well, there are some sinister reports about you--you see, I speak plainly.

  • To speak plainly, they were both dead drunk, nor was Partridge in a much better situation.

  • To speak plainly, since the clause is above suspicion, Why are we not rather told so?

  • To speak plainly, it is an utter failure.

  • To speak plainly, Why encumber your margin with such a note at all?

  • To speak plainly, we have grossly erred in the way in which we have stunted and hindered the development of our merchant marine.

  • But to speak plainly, all these are the words of a slothful spirit.

  • Therefor, speak plainly; Dost thou believe that that man Christ Jesus is ascended from his people in his person?

  • She looked up again with flashing eyes, 'Speak plainly,' she said.

  • Speak plainly, or permit me to wish you good evening.

  • I will undertake to speak plainly enough.

  • It is best to speak plainly, you know, and then you will not expect too much.

  • I take this to be a favorable moment to speak plainly on a subject which is very near my heart, and which may as well be broached under such favorable auspices as under any other.

  • Speak plainly," said Alida with all her natural firmness.

  • I speak plainly; it is better; there will be less danger of apprehension.

  • Do not fear to speak plainly, my dear madam.

  • It was no desire for notoriety that drove me to authorship, but true talent,--to speak plainly, genius.

  • It would be best that your cruel designs should attain their end as soon as possible,--to speak plainly, that your evident estrangement should induce him voluntarily to break the bond between you.

  • They themselves do not scruple to speak plainly," Flora remarked, carelessly.

  • True, those fellows are hard enough, but at the same time to speak plainly, NO ONE in these parts has any regard for us since only too many of the sort of Russian folk who come here in search of work are not overly-desirable.

  • To speak plainly, we Russians are sheer barbarians.

  • Certainly; but, to speak plainly, he is a fool.

  • She had made up her mind only to this,--that he should be made to speak plainly, and that she would take time for her reply.

  • But to speak plainly--" "Yes; speak plainly.

  • Well, to speak plainly, I consider you an inhuman scoundrel," I said.

  • To speak plainly," I said, with rising indignation, "you wish me to kill her!

  • I longed to speak plainly to her and seek some explanation, yet at that moment it was impossible.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    fair start; field work; instrument consisting; lively interest; quite unable; speak again; speak evil; speak falsely; speak first; speak frankly; speak like; speak them; speak thus; speak truth; speak with; speake somewhat; speake vnto; speaking generally; speaking minorities; speaking race; speaking races; speaking very; speaks thus; territorial collectivity; there would; would endeavor