" Then they noticed for the first time how straight and smooth the walls of the spring were and how far down Grandfather Frog was, and they knew that he spoke the truth.
Finally the first one spoke.
" Grandfather Frog patted his white and yellow waistcoat as he spoke and looked admiringly at the reflection of his handsome green coat in the Smiling Pool.
But before he could say anything more, Little Joe Otter spoke.
" As she spoke she swam about nervously.
" "Perfectly," spoke up Jerry Muskrat, who had been listening from the top of the Big Rock, where he was lunching on a clam, "unless you are not smart enough to keep out of the clutches of Reddy Fox or Old Man Coyote or Hooty the Owl or Redtail the Hawk.
After a long time, during which Peter thought and thought, and Prickly Porky ate and ate, the latter spoke again.
" There was something in the way Granny spoke that told Reddy she was speaking the truth.
So instead of replying politely to Sammy, as he should have done, Peter spoke crossly: "Fly away, Sammy, fly away!
But when at last he saw that Reddy was beginning to get uneasy, Blacky spoke.
Finally Blacky spoke.
Tranquil and reserved, he spoke little and coveted neither fame nor fortune.
Yet she had seen something in Aunt Elizabeth's eyes when she had flung that last stinging sentence at her—something that spoke of bitter hurt.
When he spoke of Athens as "the City of the Violet Crown" Emily realized afresh what magic is made when the right words are wedded; and she loved to think of284 Rome as "the City of the Seven Hills.
That was a Murray tradition—you looked people in the face when you spoke to them.
Aunt Elizabeth spoke up and said, "I do wish, Ruth, that you and Wallace would leave that child alone.
Aunt Laura wepped when she came home and then spoke to Mrs.
Before that she spoke English.
She always spoke crisply and used no unnecessary words.
In they came; down they sat around the room; Emily held her breath; for a few minutes nobody spoke, though Aunt Eva sighed long and heavily.
