Careful Words

speaking (n.)

speaking (adv.)

speaking (adj.)

  They think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

New Testament: Matthew vi. 7.

  Busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

New Testament: 1 Timothy v. 13.

The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear

So charming left his voice, that he awhile

Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 1.

  The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882): English Traits. Race.