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Example sentences for "thus spake"

  • Now was Ulysses desolate, fear made no friend remain, He thus spake to his mighty mind: "What doth my state sustain?

  • Thus spake he, and he was so smitten with love of her, that he would not let her depart from his house.

  • Thus spake he full of anger, and threw himself weeping on the ground.

  • A woman needs children, man is always only a means, thus spake Zarathustra.

  • Obviously there is no new or even deformed Nietzsche here, because he is still faithful to the position which he assumed in Thus spake Zarathustra, five years previously, and is perfectly conscious of this fidelity (see p.

  • Thus spake Antilochus, and his horses were afraid, and sped on more swiftly.

  • All men believed Proculus when he thus spake, and the people ceased from their sorrow when they knew that King Romulus had been taken up into heaven.

  • Then Dido, her eyes bent on the ground, thus spake: "Fear not, men of Troy.

  • Thus spake one of the leading citizens, a Roman Catholic, dead against Home Rule.

  • Thus spake a well-to-do Protestant, born in Galway some sixty years ago, a half-breed Irish and Scotchman.

  • It has been illustrated by Hans Lindlof, in the same spirit in which Richard Strauss has written a musical composition on the theme of Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra.

  • The best known of Nietzsche's poems forms the conclusion of Thus Spake Zarathustra, the most impressive work of Nietzsche, and is called by him "The Drunken Song.

  • Alexander Tille, the English translator of Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra, translates the word Uebermensch by "beyond-man.

  • He knowing well the miserable hags Who tend the queen of endless woe, thus spake: "Mark thou each dire Erinnys.

  • At sight whereof I, stung with grief, thus spake: "O say, my guide!

  • And as he thus spake, Morven opened the door of the house and looked forth, and saw that they were quite alone; then he seized the old man by the throat, and ceased not his grip till he was quite dead.

  • Then mounting on a huge fragment of rock, he thus spake to the multitude: "Princes, wantons and bards!

  • Thus spake Agenor's son; and his friend straightway came near leading two sheep from the flock.

  • Thus spake Agenor's son, and close at hand the twin sons of Thracian Boreas came darting from the sky and set their swift feet upon the threshold; and the heroes rose up from their seats when they saw them present.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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