Lexicographical Neighbors of Forspeaks
Literary usage of Forspeaks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shakspere's predecessors in the English drama by John Addington Symonds (1884)
"... And being ignorant of myself, they go About to teach me how to be one ; urging
That my bad tongue, by their bad usage made so, forspeaks their cattle, ..."
2. The Bride of Lammermoor: And, A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott (1878)
"... that she threatens me wi' mischief, and forspeaks me. If onything but gude
happens to me ..."
3. Shakspere's predecessors in the English drama by JOHN ADDINGTON. SYMONDS (1884)
"... And being ignorant of myself, they go About to teach me how to be one ; urging
That my bad tongue, by their bad usage made so, forspeaks their cattle, ..."
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