bespake

[ bih-speyk ]

verbArchaic.
  1. simple past tense of bespeak.

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How to use bespake in a sentence

  • These two smiled on him and bespake him kindly, but would not help him when he bade them set shoulder to her bows and shove.

  • So one voice bespake me; whence my master said: "Reply; And ask, if upward hence the passage lead."

  • Long as this spirit mov'd the bones and pulp My mother gave me, less my deeds bespake The nature of the lion than the fox.

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  • They their hooks Protruding, one the other thus bespake: "Wilt thou I touch him on the hip?"

  • Yet soon as by her symmetry of neck, By her love-kindling breasts and luminous eyes470 She knew the Goddess, her she thus bespake.