A document written or printed, or spoken words, 3.
He took her hand and held it in his own, and it seemed as though some sacred pledge were at the moment, with no spoken words, given and received.
To this sort of remark Maud had no need of any other reply than that easiest and most natural of all to feminine lips, which dispenses with the necessity of spoken words.
Maud knew the tone in which he spoke as well as spoken words.
This understanding of spoken words is the more surprising, as his repetition of them continues still to be of a very rudimentary character.
But in many of the above cases--and they might without difficulty be multiplied by diligent observation--there is not the least indication of any influence of spoken words.
In the eighteenth month this ability of the ear to discriminate, and with it the understanding of spoken words, increases.
I was watching for the expressman, and did not notice you had come in; you made a mistake," came the quick-spoken words.
The matter was dismissed with a laugh, though memory lingered long over the plain-spoken words; but in his secret heart Mr. Sherwood was glad that Dexie had so answered this New York gentleman.
Furthermore, he is by nature unable to hear any remark addressed to him, and is incapable of expressing himself in spoken words.
And with tactful feeling he indicated the gesture of propelling an antagonist over the side of a precipice rather than allude to the disagreeable contingency in spoken words.
The inference is self-evident," acknowledged the Emperor uneasily, "but the logical development is one which this diffident Monarch hesitates to commit to spoken words.
If she decided that the story should be told to her mother it would be easier to tell it by letter than by spoken words, face to face.
Melmotte had never required from him service that was actually fraudulent,--had at any rate never required it by spoken words.
To slander a person is to utter a false and injurious report concerning him; to defame is specifically and directly to attack one's reputation; to defame byspoken words is to slander, by written words, to libel.
Thus oral applies to that which is given by spoken words in distinction from that which is written or printed; as, oral tradition; an oral examination.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spoken words" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
