A word spoke is an arrow let fly. [ Proverb ]
Where did you get that pearly ear?
God spoke and it came out to hear. [ George MacDonald ]
I will set a spoke in your cart for you. [ Proverb ]
A fool when he hath spoke hath done all. [ Proverb ]
Things are often spoke and seldom meant. [ William Shakespeare ]
The worst spoke in a cart is broke first. [ Proverb ]
Some asked how pearls did grow, and where,
Then spoke I to my girle,
To part her lips, and showed them there
The quarrelets of pearl. [ Robert Herrick ]
Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes. [ Homer ]
But words once spoke can never be recalled. [ Wentworth Dillon ]
When he spoke, what tender words he used!
So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow.
They melted as they fell. [ Dryden ]
We understood
Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood
Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought.
That one might almost say her body thought. [ Donne ]
His words seem'd oracles
That pierced their bosoms; and each man would turn
And gaze in wonder on his neighbour's face,
That with the like dumb wonder answer'd him.
You could have heard
The beating of your pulses while he spoke. [ George Croly ]
Her eye (I am very fond of handsome eyes).
Was large and dark, suppressing half its fire
Until she spoke, then through its soft disguise
Flashed an expression more of pride than ire,
And love than either; and there would arise,
A something in them which was not desire,
But would have been, perhaps, but for the soul,
Which struggled through and chastened down the whole. [ Byron ]
The highest spoke in fortune's wheel may soon turn lowest. [ Proverb ]
No earnest man, in any time, ever spoke what was wholly meaningless. [ Carlyle ]
The eloquent blood spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, you might have almost said her body thought. [ Donne ]
Sir Anthony Absolute, two or three years before Evelina appeared, spoke the sense of the great body of sober fathers and husbands when he pronounced the circulating library an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. [ Macaulay ]
There was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. He'll never get fat. I believe it is better to support schools than jails. [ Mark Twain, "Public Education Association" Speech ]