Dictionary Entry

spake

Part of SpeechadjectivePronunciation/speɪk/Used In Literature ↓

Quiet; tame.

Origin

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Common Phrases

unto spakezarathustra spake. spakespake thusspake lordspake god

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Poetry examples for “spake”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Forth thrust a white neck, and red crest.
'Te-he,' cried ladies; clerke nought spake:
Miss stared; and gray ducke crieth 'Quaake.'

Not like a king : three days he feasted us,
And on the fourth I spake of why we came,
And my betroth’d. “You do us, Prince,” he said,

Then Bedivere, the first of all his knights
Knighted by Arthur at his crowning, spake—
For bold in heart and act and word was he,

Now, while they spake, I saw my father’s face
Grow long and troubled, like a rising moon,

Then spake the hoary chamberlain and said,
‘Sir King, there be but two old men that know:

Whose glory was, redressing human wrong;
Who spake no slander, no, nor listen’d to it;
Who loved one only and who clave to her—’

To pluck from fight what he lost of right,
By council and judgment of Gods that spake
And gave great Pallas the strife’s fair stake,

She rose up radiant in her right,
And spake, and put to fear and flight
The lawless rule of awless will

And sank as a flame sinks under;
Then spake, and the speech was thunder,
And the cheek as he heard it paled

WAS it light that spake from the darkness,
or music that shone from the word,