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Example sentences for "speak truth"

  • He saw clearly that his father would never consent to his marriage with Hilda, nor, to speak truth, did he himself at all like the idea of losing Miss Lee and her estates.

  • I knew of this before; but, to speak truth, This present grief had wip'd it from my mind.

  • The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins Remorse from power, and, to speak truth of Caesar, I have not known when his affections sway'd More than his reason.

  • And, to speak truth, thou deserv'st no less.

  • To witness I speak truth, Where thou appoint'st the place, I'll meet with thee.

  • Believe me, on my credit, I speak truth: Since first your nephew Lacy went to France, I have not seen him.

  • To speak truth, sir, I don't understand you at all: I cannot keep up the conversation, because it has got out of my depth.

  • To speak truth, St. John, my heart rather warms to the poor little soul.

  • Say, Apostles have already come unto you before me, with plain proofs, and with the miracle which ye mention: why therefore have ye slain them, if ye speak truth?

  • Say unto the Jews, Bring hither the Pentateuch and read it, if ye speak truth.

  • Say, Produce your proof of this, if ye speak truth.

  • To see this improvement in him has been a main source of happiness to me, and to speak truth, a subject of wonder too.

  • Continuous solitude grew more than I could bear, and, to speak truth, I was glad of a change.

  • And to speak truth, I was much delighted to see and hear many things which I saw and heard among them.

  • And he made this essential difference between a Jew and a Christian, that, whereas the one swore in order that he might be believed; the other was to speak truth in order that he might not swear.

  • But let me speak truth of myself in good as in evil--it pained not me.

  • And if he promised a puir, silly lass to make gude her shame, did he speak truth then?

  • Nevertheless you, O Sir Gauwaine, lie, Whatever happened on through all those years, God knows I speak truth, saying that you lie.

  • Nevertheless you, O Sir Gauwaine, lie, Whatever may have happened through these years, God knows I speak truth, saying that you lie.

  • Say, Apostles have already come unto you before me,f with plain proofs, and with the miracle which ye mention: why therefore have ye slain them, if ye speak truth?

  • GOD come upon you, or the hour of the resurrection come upon you, will ye call upon any other than GOD, if ye speak truth?

  • To speak truth, I watched this change much as a gardener watches the growth of a precious plant, and I contributed to it too, even as the said gardener contributes to the development of his favourite.

  • To speak truth, even if your mother and sisters had consented, I never could.

  • To speak truth, I have put on but a poor time of it during this month past.

  • I tried very hard to understand all he says about art; but, to speak truth, my efforts were crowned with incomplete success.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    absolute music; been laid; bicameral legislature; cuneiform inscriptions; each cell; nobody would; speak about; speak again; speak calmly; speak first; speak frankly; speak freely; speak like; speak not; speak out; speak them; speak thus; speak unto the house; speak with; speake vnto; speaking countries; speaking generally; speaking race; speaking races; speaking slowly; speaks thus