Spoke
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1716 examples of Spoke in a sentence
He
spoke.
Then there was the internal administration: he read the statutes,
spoke
of the congresses, pointed out the growing importance of the work, the enlargement of the programme, which, starting from the discussion of wages, was now working towards a social liquidation, to have done with the wage system.
They had made up their minds to it, and no one
spoke
of surrender.
No one
spoke
any more; all were becoming benumbed beneath this aggravation of their evils; the grandfather, coughing and spitting out the black phlegm, taken again by rheumatism which was turning to dropsy; the father asthmatic, and with knees swollen with water; the mother and the little ones scarred by scrofula and hereditary anaemia.
What she saw was far from encouraging; the house
spoke
of misery even more than her own.
But his voice was not fierce; he
spoke
in the cold tones of a simple envoy of the people, who was rendering his account.
At first he
spoke
of his dislike to the strike; the miners had not desired it, it was the management which had provoked it with the new timbering tariff.
He had foreseen everything; he
spoke
of it as of a machine which he could put together in two hours, and he stuck at neither fire nor blood.
When they
spoke
of this part of the pit, the miners of the region grew pale, and lowered their voices, as if they had spoken of hell; and most often they were content to shake their heads as men who would rather not speak of these depths of fiery furnace.
No one
spoke
now, only their feet moved with a low sound; while the lamps, like travelling stars, spaced out from below upward, formed a continually increasing line.
Chaval twice
spoke
to Catherine without obtaining any reply.
Then their nephew arrived, this Paul to whom she became a mother, and to whom she
spoke
of her dead heart buried for ever beneath the ashes.
He rose and
spoke
aloud, breaking into the flood of coarseness with which his parched throat was bursting in spite of himself.
They all then got down from the carriage, and Négrel gallantly leapt off his horse; while the peasant-woman, alarmed by all these fine people, rushed about, and
spoke
of laying a cloth before serving the milk.
Bonnemort's swollen legs bore him so badly, that he had great difficulty in dragging himself so far; no one knew what curiosity impelled him, for his face had the earthy look of those days when he never
spoke
a word.
M. Hennebeau
spoke
of going out to chase away the brawlers by himself, and to meet the carriage, when Hippolyte appeared, exclaiming:"Sir! sir, here is madame!
He
spoke
of the strike, this terrible wretchedness, this exasperated rancour of famine, with the ardour of a missionary who is preaching to savages for the glory of religion.
He began again, and
spoke
of the deplorable misunderstanding between the Church and the people.
As soon as he
spoke
to them of razing society to the ground like a ripe harvest--as soon as he even pronounced the infantile word "republic"--he felt that he was misunderstood and a disturber, henceforth unclassed, enrolled among the lost leaders of cosmopolitan revolution.
And neither of them
spoke
any more; they tramped on at random through the roads which were becoming rivers of mud.
He
spoke
out loudly:"By God! this is idiotic!
Not one of them spoke, many shook their heads, others went away with trailing steps, without changing one line in their motionless faces.
She
spoke
of Alzire; she wished the others might have that child's luck.
She
spoke
of Bébert, her youngster, killed by a bullet, and cried:"Yes, there are cowards who get children murdered!
They seldom spoke, and the captain never left them.
She
spoke
in a low voice, with suspicious glances round.
At last she
spoke
for the sake of speaking.
That was all; they
spoke
no more.
Now then, justly or unjustly, it was the "monster" who stood accused of their disappearance; and since, thanks to it, travel between the various continents had become more and more dangerous, the public
spoke
up and demanded straight out that, at all cost, the seas be purged of this fearsome cetacean.
Captain Nemo
spoke
with winning eloquence.
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