See spak on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1806, Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3):",
"text": "Then spak the lord, hight Hamilton, And to the nobil king said he, \"My sovereign prince, sum counsell take, First at your nobilis, syne at me.",
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"ref": "1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, David Balfour, Second Part:",
"text": "But whan he spak, it was mair in sorrow than in anger.",
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{
"ref": "1898, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, Scottish sketches:",
"text": "And I'll do this messenger justice; he laid down no law to me, he only spak o' the duty laid on his own conscience; but my conscience said 'Amen' to his--that's about it.",
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{
"ref": "1896, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Adventures in Criticism:",
"text": "Ful wel she song the service divyne, Entuned in hir nose ful semely; And Frensh she spak ful faire and fetisly, After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For Frensh of Paris was to hir unknowe...\"",
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"ref": "1919, Frederic Moorman, More Tales of the Ridings:",
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"ref": "1857, Various, The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV.:",
"text": "I went unto her mother, and I argued and I fleech'd, I spak o' love and honesty, and mair and mair beseech'd; But she was deaf to a' my grief, she wadna look on me; O poverty!",
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"ref": "1904, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Merry Men:",
"text": "Het as he was, he took a kind o' cauld grue in the marrow o' his banes; but up he spak for a' that; an' says he: 'My friend, are you a stranger in this place?'",
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"ref": "1898, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, Scottish sketches:",
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"ref": "1896, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Adventures in Criticism:",
"text": "Ful wel she song the service divyne, Entuned in hir nose ful semely; And Frensh she spak ful faire and fetisly, After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For Frensh of Paris was to hir unknowe...\"",
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"ref": "1919, Frederic Moorman, More Tales of the Ridings:",
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"ref": "1857, Various, The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV.:",
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"ref": "1904, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Merry Men:",
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