Sentence examples for Was spoken of from inspiring English sources

This time, the state was spoken of with appropriate gravity.

It was spoken of with such enthusiasm and excitement; however, I didn't fully understand why.

And it was broadly accessible, or at least it was spoken of that way.

To those of us in the Midwest it was spoken of with envious awe.

Bizarrely, each was spoken of as a possible "C", or head of the secret service.

New Yorkers loved it, and after the financing collapsed, and it was gone, it was spoken of as "much-missed".

Furthermore, the concept of soul seemed familiar because it was spoken of in the way people speak about ordinary "things".

Back in the day, Sarah Bernhardt's performance in "La Dame aux Camélias" was spoken of with reverence.

He entered Parliament at 27, and from the very beginning was spoken of as "the coming man".

Return, the duty of return and the dream of return, was spoken of endlessly while eating platefuls of goat curry and hilsa fish.

That may be so in the 1920s Edith Sitwell was spoken of in the same breath as Yeats and Eliot but her reputation has declined.