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- verb archaic Simple past of
bespeak .
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Examples
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So she went whilst Masrur held his peace and bespake not the lady, who suddenly improvised these lines,
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So she returned, as she were a rending lioness, and bespake none for the space of three hours, when her brow cleared and her wrath cooled.
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Whenever the lad bespake him, he answered him kindly, trembling the while and would turn to him groaning and crying, and thus he did till supper was brought in, when he fell to eating, with his eyes on the boy but refrained not from shedding tears.
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Sindbad the Seaman bespake them and related to them the narrative of
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Now as he bespake her thus and strave to comfort her, what while she answered him not a syllable, lo! there came a knocking at the palace-gate.
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The King summoned the twain forthwith, as he loved them for their fidelity and piety; and, sending for the woman, that he might hear from her own lips what she had to say against them, thus bespake her, “O woman, what hath betided thee from these two men in whom I trust?”
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Accordingly, Shimas went in to the King and bespake him, saying,
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Stoker girthed his ass for flight and bespake himself, saying,
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Shah son of Fakhr Taj thus bespake his mother, she rejoiced in his speech.
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This Hagen bespake with Etzel, and it was told them soon.
The Nibelungenlied 2007
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