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Example sentences for "speak with"

  • Ye speak with an ill tongue, friend," answered Dick, "to miscall your good master and my lord the king in the same libel.

  • Even now, my lord," Dick answered, "I am ignorant of whom I speak with.

  • Maputa and I drew aside, for I saw that he wished to speak with me alone.

  • Now I turned on my heel to go, whereon Masapo said in a coarse, growling voice: "O Macumazana, before you leave us I wish to speak with you on a certain matter.

  • Then he called to a messenger to summon the princes, Cetewayo and Umbelazi, and to bid Saduko, the son of Matiwane, to wait without, in case he should wish to speak with him.

  • No, Baas; Umbelazi and some soldiers were with her, but they did not hear her words, for she stepped aside to speak with me.

  • I wish to speak with Madame d'Argeles in private.

  • He was in the depths of despair, when one morning his servant woke him up with the announcement that the Viscount de Coralth was in the sitting-room and wished to speak with him on very important business.

  • The baron called out: "Come in," and a valet appeared, and informed his master that the Marquis de Valorsay wished to speak with him.

  • Madame Landoire, the milliner, is here, and desires to speak with Madame la Comtesse," he said.

  • The countess dismissed the steward with thanks, and desired him to tell Helena she wished to speak with her.

  • He said he knew you were, and therefore he came to speak with you.

  • Next morning he went to his shop, and, as he sat there, the handmaid came to him and said, "Speak with my master.

  • I lived in Damascus of Syria studying my art and, one day, as I was sitting at home behold, there came to me a Mameluke from the household of the Sahib and said to me, "Speak with my lord!

  • Presently the handmaid came to him and said, "Speak with my lady.

  • Sir, let me speak with you in your chamber; you shall hear how things go, and, I warrant, to your content.

  • Sir John, there's one Master Brook below would fain speak with you, and be acquainted with you; and hath sent your worship a moming's draught of sack.

  • It is of them I wished to speak with you.

  • Here's a seafaring man, one Richard Gardner, A friend of yours, who asks to speak with you.

  • It is not often that I have occasion To speak with scholars; and Emollit mores, Nec sinit esse feros, Cicero says.

  • It is The privilege of age to speak with frankness.

  • He seemed to speak with authority, and was conversant with the great world of London, with the court, and the camp.

  • Godwin and Wulf stepped forward to speak with Rosamund, but Masouda interposed herself between them, saying in a cold, clear voice: "It is not permitted.

  • Nor was she troubled by Lozelle, who sought to speak with her no more, or to Hassan either.

  • Presently he seemed to speak with him; then Lozelle lifted the blade that lay beside him and gave it to him in token of surrender.

  • I have come to speak with you," she said, looking up.

  • I have marvel, said Arthur, that yonder knight will not tell me his name, but go thou, Griflet le Fise de Dieu, and pray him to speak with me betwixt us.

  • Yea sir, she said, therefore I come hither to speak with my lord the king.

  • Sirs, said Sir Bors, if there be any holy man in this house I pray you let me speak with him.

  • Accordingly, the oldest of them went immediately to Paulina; and upon his admittance, he desired to speak with her by herself.

  • This duke, as his proceedings testified, was cruel and avaricious, difficult to speak with, and haughty in reply.

  • The patriarch, having determined to go into Tuscany, prepared to leave Rome on the following day, and ordered the castellan to be upon the drawbridge of the fortress in the morning, for he wished to speak with him as he passed.

  • I lack two front teeth, knocked out by a stone from the hand of a Briton, I speak with a hiss; still my happiest days were passed in Britain.

  • Wherefore I should much prefer conversing with you, if you want to speak with me, in the presence of the company.

  • Do you wish, he said, to speak with me alone, or in the presence of the company?

  • At my side she stopped and said: "My father tells me you wish to speak with me," and she laughed a little softly and held me with her beautiful eyes.

  • Now, sir, I will ask your royal brethren to fall back, as I wish to speak with you.

  • Bide here a moment, General, for as Master of the Palace it will be your duty to receive certain guests to-day of whom I wish to speak with you.

  • I was just leaving the hotel to keep my appointment with Eunice, when the waiter announced the arrival of a young lady who wished to speak with me.

  • The subject on which he wished to speak with me would have agitated any man, in his state of health.

  • I found Selina waiting to speak with me, on the subject of poor papa.

  • In the most positive language, Eunice refused to correspond with Philip, or to speak with him.

  • To my amazement, he begged leave to speak with me in the garden.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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