"Speak out" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... may be your pleasure or business with me? You may speak out," said Carlton, noticing the glance that his visitor threw at the surgeon, "that gentleman is my most intimate friend ...
— Vellenaux - A Novel • Edmund William Forrest
... such training, though perhaps not exactly as they desired, for I hated a lie, and my chief desire was to show myself such as I was, proud and frank in all my dealings with men. I am convinced grandfather had no hand in this plot, but he was too weak to speak out and set his face against it. Sometimes, however, he gave me needlework to do, and he had a strong aversion to Dr. Darkins. Disputes arose between him and Sir John, and he shortly after moved to ...
— Major Frank • A. L. G. Bosboom-Toussaint
... both officers looked at me with undisguised sympathy. They themselves dared not put into words such incendiary thoughts, but they welcomed their expression from another. This was not the first time I had worded the inner thoughts of a company who dared not speak out themselves, but, as catspaws are invariably burned, I cannot lay to my soul the flattering unction that I have escaped their common lot. Bee says I am ...
— Abroad with the Jimmies • Lilian Bell
... should observe on these dangerous topics a profound silence, both in her letters and her conversation; that as long as the lady continued under the protection of her husband, the world might whisper, but would not speak out; that as to Belinda's own principles, she would be utterly inexcusable if, after the education she had received, they could be hurt by any bad examples; that she could not be too cautious in her management of a man of ——'s character; that she could have no serious ...
— Tales and Novels, Vol. III - Belinda • Maria Edgeworth
... "Speak out," they cried. Said John: "Last night, Being in bed, I saw a light; I rose, as if I'd had a call— There was a hole in the house wall, 'Gainst which his back a certain friar Placed, thereby blinding it entire, Lest, as he said, some curious eye ...
— Signelil - a Tale from the Cornish, and Other Ballads • Anonymous
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