bespake

[ bih-speyk ]

verb

, Archaic.

1. simple past tense of bespeak.

Example Sentences

These two smiled on him and bespake him kindly, but would not help him when he bade them set shoulder to her bows and shove.

From Project Gutenberg

So one voice Bespake me; whence my master said: "Reply; And ask, if upward hence the passage lead."

From Project Gutenberg

Long as this spirit mov'd the bones and pulp My mother gave me, less my deeds bespake The nature of the lion than the fox.

From Project Gutenberg

They their hooks Protruding, one the other thus bespake: "Wilt thou I touch him on the hip?"

From Project Gutenberg

Yet soon as by her symmetry of neck, By her love-kindling breasts and luminous eyes470 She knew the Goddess, her she thus bespake.

From Project Gutenberg