The author of the Manuscrit Ramirez speaksas if the rule applied only to the priests of the god Tezcatlipoca.
The Sultan of Wadai always speaksfrom behind a curtain; no one sees his face except his intimates and a few favoured persons.
The Annamites believe that when a man meets a demon and speaksto him, the demon inhales the man's breath and soul.
Careful to disguise the true nature of the gift, he speaks of it as ove, a yam, using a form of words fixed by usage.
During the four days of the trapping he sees none of his family, and speaks to none of his friends except those who are engaged in the trapping at the same time.
If he would consult any one, even the missionary, he does so by stealth and at night; he seems to have lost his voice and speaks only in whispers.
Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Mariotti speaks of a Giovanni di Pintoricchio who was a canon of the Cathedral of Perugia in 1525; but Pintoricchio's own sons would have then been too young to hold such a post, and we hear nothing in later years of his descendants.
Vasari speaks of the Cardinal (not the Pope) as having brought it to the not quite finished Library, which would put the transit before September 1503.
Giambattista Caporali, the historian, speaks of a supper at which they were all present at the house of Bramante.
Mantegna has left a graphic description of his appearance in a letter written from Rome in 1485, in which he speaks of his fierce aspect, his wonderful seat on a horse, and his turban made of "thirty thousand ells of fine linen.
Vasari speaks of his having painted such an altar-piece, but this, if the same, was entirely repainted in 1834.
Vasari speaks of him as an assistant and friend of the older master.
The people that live here have both minds and hearts and good sense, but it seems as if the Great Father all at once thought differently, and speaks of us as people that are very bad.
He speaks of having heard reports that troops were going out to punish the hostiles, but thought he would have time to do his hunting and trading and get out of the way before a battle occurred.
He then speaks of Custer's approach and fight with its tragic details as an unwilling spectator, rather than a participant, who, during its progress, remained quietly in his lodge in the centre of the Indian village.
She felt as alert, and cool and refreshed as she looked, which speakswell for her comfort.
Miracles or no miracles," said Sancho, "let everyone mind how he speaks or writes about people, and not set down at random the first thing that comes into his head.
And when we come to that line your worship speaks of," said Sancho, "how far shall we have gone?
In a word, Senor Don Alvaro Tarfe, I am Don Quixote of La Mancha, the one that fame speaks of, and not the unlucky one that has attempted to usurp my name and deck himself out in my ideas.
Thou art a governor's wife; take care that nobodyspeaks evil of thee behind thy back.
The minister speaks to folk, and sometimes the elders; and that's all.
But, Shenac, your Allister speaks kindly of our Evan--in the letter your mother got, I mean.
He speaks in high terms of you, and regretted your leaving them; but the reason you gave for so doing in your letter to me more than justified the course you took, and showed that you were thoughtful in other than military matters.
He speaks French very well, and might certainly be of great use to me in any enterprise that your lordship might be good enough to entrust me with.
America is the paradise of the economists; is the favorable exception invariably quoted to the rules of ruin; but when he speaks directly of the Americans, the islander forgets his philosophy, and remembers his disparaging anecdotes.
There is an air of freedom even in their advertising columns, which speaks well for England to a foreigner.
The solidity of the structures that compose the townsspeaks the industry of ages.
It speaks out bluff and bold, and sticks to what it says.
On this condition, that if he speaks of it again, to my knowledge, to anyone, anywhere, I must then confront him and prove it a lie on your own showing.
He speaks sometimes as if he regarded the Church as the great storehouse of necessary authority for the intellectually feeble; but he accepted the main dogmas himself, being satisfied of them by intuition and reason.
Lloyd speaks of "the grace wherewith he could relate magnarum rerum minutias, the little circumstances of great matters.
He is a Servian of the old school, speaks Servian and Turkish, but no European language.
The narrative and descriptive portion of this work speaks for itself.
His English is very good for a Frenchman, and he says he speaks it the least well of five languages.
And this is quite satisfactory to his audience, who, indeed, are rather prejudiced against the man who speaks too glibly.
She speaks English like a native, insomuch that I should never have suspected her to be anything else.
Colonel Erskine says that he has never seen a head with more than fourteen tines, but Jerdon speaks of seventeen.
He gives the Emir advice, and in privatespeaks his mind, only appearing to the outer world as the obsequious follower of his prince.
It speaks well for the quality of the workmanship that it has so long stood the weather and the wear, for it is out of doors, and forms the pavement in the courtyard of a house.
He is in a very moody state, but never speaks of any change of mind to me.
Herodotus speaks of the hempen robes of the Thracians as equal to linen in fineness.
Ellida (turns towards him, looks firmly at him, and speaks in a resolute voice).
Now and again she speaksto herself in a low voice, and breaks off.
He bows to those in the boat, turns and speaks to them.
Then Chester leans forward impulsively, andspeaks with a new intensity.
Yes, if my brother has not a forked tongue: if he speaks the truth, so soon as we land on the bank, he will be free to go where he pleases.
My father's words are true," the chief answered with a bow: "wisdom speaks through his lips.
Sakit kaáyung musulti si Pidru, Pedro speaksin a hurting way.
Arti kaáyu nga manulti ning buánga, mu rag unsay nakamauhan, The fool speaks in an affected way.
Somewhere between one-quarter and one-third of the population of the Philippines speaks Cebuano natively.
Kubad siyang musulti, mu rag gihanginan siya, He speaksoff the subject as if he were crazy.
Kintà siyang musulti, mu rag siya ray kamau, He speaks so self-confidently—as if he were the only one who knew how.
Miugtak ang íyang sinultihan karung kwartáhan na siya, He speaks in a loud and gruff tone now that he has become rich.
Yungit ang sinultihan sa Insik kay dì makaluwas sa íri, The Chinaman still speaks with an accent because he cannot pronounce r.
Sakit kaáyu siya nga manulti, He speaks in a very hurting way.
She speaks of going abroad or to New York to study, when political affairs are quite settled.
Bishop Heber speaks of a Ceylon monkey that attacked a huntsman friend of his, and broke his gun-barrel!
Strabo, the Greek geographer and historian, speaks of this.
Almost every stranger, upon first landing at the capital, speaks of the effeminate appearance of the men.
We pause, and gaze thoughtfully at the desolation which speaks so emphatically in its dumb way.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "speaks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
