Verb (used without object) : He was too ill to speak. ,to speak to a person of various matters. ,She spoke with him for an hour. ,to speak at a meeting. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : to speak words of praise. ,to speak the truth. ,to speak French. ,We spoke a whaler on the fourth day at sea. From Dictionary.com.
When one thought is spoken, all others become speakable. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860] Reference
A number of commands, or “speakable items,” are already created for you. From Wordnik.com. [KN | Kitsune Noir » Why Can’t We Talk To Our Computers?] Reference
“The end” ran through his mind, to the exclusion of all speakable thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll] Reference
I suspect that the “speakable” talking points in these blogs come down from on high. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: The Education of Blitzer Continues] Reference
The things that are not to be said in English are not worth thinking -- if they are speakable at all; and some things are not. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
I wonder if the administration has one single thought on that issue in its pretty little head if its desires are publicly speakable. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Ssssh, he’s “deciding.”] Reference
Comments in art, everything must be fair game, everything must be explorable, everything must be speakable, or we go BACKWARDS! we go DOWN!. From Wordnik.com. [Holly Cara Price: Weekend Horoscoop* for May 8-10, 2009 ~ feliz d��a de la madre edition] Reference
No matter how good Lucas's ideas are, he still has no excuse for not getting an intelligent scriptwriter to convert the ideas into speakable English. From Wordnik.com. [Sithing Ducks] Reference
The requests tend to become increasingly strident as I make my way to a speakable distance, I find myself increasingly impatient with their impatience. From Wordnik.com. [Without a sound] Reference
Our English Speech is speakable because there were. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference
"Cmd-C" combination stops working -- linked to speakable items / voice over. From Wordnik.com. [MacFixIt] Reference
He often talked to his dog; he told it every speakable thought that he had. From Wordnik.com. [This Is the End] Reference
I am so confused about all the terminology its not even speakable these days. From Wordnik.com. [The Tech Report: News]
Hero-Poets of our blood and lineage; speakable in proportion to the number of these. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference
Finnish reporters feel Russia and its circumstance is a taboo not freely and openly speakable. From Wordnik.com. [Indymedia Ireland] Reference
You can make Address Book names speakable, open files, switch between applications, and so on. From Wordnik.com. [Mac360 - All about the Mac] Reference
If no speakable charge exist against a man, or Batch of men, Fouquier has always this: a Plot in the. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
In fact, the prose is sometimes indistinguishable from simple speakable verse, usually iambic in rhythm. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online]
Yeats's formulae point in a single direction, but leave unanswered questions: "simple speakable prose", "idiomatic prose". From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online]
It's the ends justify the means, and it's a metaphor that hides three un-speakable themes; nationalism and racism and sexism. From Wordnik.com. ["BANPC" via James Bow in Google Reader] Reference
And insofar as the non-lyric dialogue aims at "simple speakable prose", it is actually verse-compatible prose that it aims at. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online]
Shakspeare lies hid; his sorrows, his silent struggles known to himself; much that was not known at all, not speakable at all; like. From Wordnik.com. [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference
Our English Speech is speakable because there were Hero-Poets of our blood and lineage; speakable in proportion to the number of these. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present] Reference
A puzzle, which is somehow not about dandruff, athlete's foot, or other, less speakable malady. From Wordnik.com. [Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle] Reference
A moment the effect on his companion of this emphasis; then he gave a small sigh that mourned the limits of the speakable. From Wordnik.com. [What Maisie Knew] Reference
'spoken,' and by things not yet spoken or very speakable, but only felt and very unendurable, to be wholly a Reforming People. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference
The speakable, imaginable best. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
If the name be speakable, speak out!. From Wordnik.com. [Hippolytus/The Bacchae] Reference
What joy, not speakable by mortal tongue. From Wordnik.com. [Poems on Serious and Sacred Subjects Printed only as Private Tokens of Regard, for the Particular Friends of the Author] Reference
How camest thou speakable of mute, and how. From Wordnik.com. [Paradise Lost] Reference
How camst thou speakable of mute, and how. From Wordnik.com. [Paradise Lost: The Ninth Book] Reference
… and probably the least unspeakable (most speakable?) thing said was "with the price of fuel oil being what it is, how can you afford. From Wordnik.com. [dispatches from TJICistan] Reference
563: How cam'st thou speakable of mute, and how. From Wordnik.com. [Paradise Lost (1667)] Reference
"Un-speakable!. From Wordnik.com. [His Own People] Reference
Un-speakable! ". From Wordnik.com. [His Own People] Reference
It isn't speakable. ". From Wordnik.com. [Questionable Shapes] Reference
Is there any speakable reason? ". From Wordnik.com. [The Grafters] Reference
The void is all too speakable in Auster’s work. From Wordnik.com. [Why James Wood is so Good…] Reference
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