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Meanings of bespeak in English

Portuguese
sugerir
Catalan
indicar
Spanish
indicar

Be a signal for or a symptom of.

        sugerir
        Portuguese
        pedir
        Catalan
        sol·licitar
        Spanish
        pedir

        Express the need or desire for; ask for.

              pedir
              Usage of bespeak in English
              1
              His olive features bespeak Sicily; his voice is pure urban New Jersey.
              The world without us
              2
              His verses here bespeak his good intention, but no facility in rhyming.
              Gossip in a Library
              3
              My friend will send a man in advance to bespeak your comfort.
              Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy
              4
              I am page to Sir Percival, and I would bespeak your name.
              In the Court of King Arthur
              5
              I didn't dare bespeak him, but I was on nettles all night.
              The Harvester
              6
              Yet sometimes one must become a guide-book, and bespeak his reader's imagination.
              The Land of Footprints
              7
              Quoth they, 'Lewd fellow that thou art, dost thou bespeak us thus?
              Tales from the Arabic — Volume 02
              8
              Thus, Lovelace, it is plain she means to bespeak her last house!
              Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 8
              9
              It doesn't entirely bespeak a new maturity in the approach to the science.
              The Guardian
              10
              I bespeak this very piece of oak for the figure-head of the Cynosure.
              Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories
              11
              Under the chin were the suggestions of fulness which bespeak an easy mind.
              The Damnation of Theron Ware
              12
              To describe it-butlet me first bespeak the indulgence of my feminine readers.
              The Gates of Chance
              13
              Such words as the foregoing bespeak a large and dignified point of view.
              The Passing of the Frontier: A Chronicle of the Old West
              14
              Who was about to bespeak a Play one evening at the Dumfries Theatre.
              The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs,...
              15
              Their interest in strangers, and their politeness under ruin, bespeak their amiable nature.
              Reprinted Pieces
              16
              We bespeak your indulgence, you understand, as young performers; we bespeak your indulgence.
              Mansfield Park
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