Speke

[ speek ]

noun

1. John Han·ning [han, -ing], 1827–64, English explorer in Africa.

Example Sentences

Stories of these adventurers, like Livingstone and Speke and Burton, had a cult status in Victorian society.

From The Daily Beast

Perhaps speke (better speken) is an infinitive in l. 350, but it may also be the pt.

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And likewyse must we do whan we haue any mater to speke or comun of.

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The sources of his power were as mysterious as were the sources of the Nile before Speke and Baker.

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Enterlaced -418-with a double new invention, which teacheth to speke truely, speedily and volubly the French Tongue.

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I envy you the acquaintance of a genuine non-bookish man like Captain Speke.

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