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Meanings of bespeak in English
Usage of bespeak in English
1
His olive features bespeak Sicily; his voice is pure urban New Jersey.
2
His verses here bespeak his good intention, but no facility in rhyming.
3
My friend will send a man in advance to bespeak your comfort.
4
I am page to Sir Percival, and I would bespeak your name.
5
I didn't dare bespeak him, but I was on nettles all night.
6
Yet sometimes one must become a guide-book, and bespeak his reader's imagination.
7
Quoth they, 'Lewd fellow that thou art, dost thou bespeak us thus?
8
Thus, Lovelace, it is plain she means to bespeak her last house!
9
It doesn't entirely bespeak a new maturity in the approach to the science.
10
I bespeak this very piece of oak for the figure-head of the Cynosure.
11
Under the chin were the suggestions of fulness which bespeak an easy mind.
12
To describe it-butlet me first bespeak the indulgence of my feminine readers.
13
Such words as the foregoing bespeak a large and dignified point of view.
14
Who was about to bespeak a Play one evening at the Dumfries Theatre.
15
Their interest in strangers, and their politeness under ruin, bespeak their amiable nature.
16
We bespeak your indulgence, you understand, as young performers; we bespeak your indulgence.
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