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Meanings of speak well in English

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Usage of speak well in English
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Your trade is to speak well, both in public and in private.
Letters to His Son, 1750 / On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of ...
2
He rarely speaks in the House, and then does not speak well.
Phineas Finn / The Irish Member
3
Senor, you speak well; you have made me a picture of him.
The Second Class Passenger: Fifteen Stories
4
The king listened to the old man, and said: 'You speak well.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6
5
One must not speak well of one's self; mum is the word.
Devereux — Complete
6
It is easy for him to speak well of Lambertus Van Linden.
The Bow of Orange Ribbon: A Romance of New York
7
A true woman loving one man will speak well of all men.
Searchlights on Health: The Science of Eugenics
8
I, of all human beings, have reason to speak well of him.
The Uninhabited House
9
You always speak well of Martinsson, and he always follows where you lead.
Firewall
10
Our school was a good one; I ought to speak well of it.
Ernest Bracebridge: School Days
11
Socrates asks whether he can speak well about everything in Homer.
Ion
12
Doesn't speak well of his character, does it? Inspector Herbert turned to me.
An impartial witness: a bess crawford mystery
13
You don't have to speak well of him just because I'm his son.
Earth Unaware
14
I speak well of them, with all the strength I have.
The Symposium
15
But he persuaded not the people, though appearing to speak well.
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
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Alexander, whose tongue was sharpened to speak well and wisely, greets the king.
Cliges: A Romance
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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