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Meanings of speak plainly in English

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Usage of speak plainly in English
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What are you talking about? Why couldn't his father just speak plainly?
The Winds of Dune
2
This was probably intended to make Dr. Leonov speak plainly and quickly.
A Tale of Time City
3
He suggests that Mr Crowley is unable or unwilling to speak plainly.
The Irish Times
4
You speak plainly, and I will answer you in the same way.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 1...
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I demand the word, and I claim the right to speak plainly.
Pausanias, the Spartan; The Haunted and the Haunters / An Unfini...
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The situation was not comfortable-intruth, to speak plainly, it was frightful.
Roughing It
7
Well, he would speak plainly; there had been too much underhand doing.
Beyond
8
She was trying to muster the courage to speak plainly to him.
Gordon Keith
9
I speak plainly, for you are at the bottom of a pit.
Poor Relations
10
To speak plainly, they were running down the loveliest of her sex.
Hard Cash
11
There is a false reverence that fears to speak plainly of God.
Quiet Talks with World Winners
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Therefore, I am going to speak plainly and plumply on this subject.
International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science —...
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And I shall speak plainly, for there is no time to hesitate.
A Prisoner of Morro; Or, In the Hands of the Enemy
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We have, then, a certain invariable rule whenever the Scriptures speak plainly.
Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope
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To speak plainly, these Woodvilles must be bravely breasted and determinately abashed.
The Last of the Barons — Volume 06
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But after awhile her fury abated, and she began to speak plainly.
Stories from the Greek Tragedians
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United Kingdom
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