When we get elected, for instance, we get one of these, and we are pretty much told what is in it, and it is our responsibility to read it and understand it, and if we do not, the Ethics Committee, we can call them any time of day and ask them to spell it out for us[...]
The letters spelled cat.
The dry spell has turned the region into a vast tinderbox. (BBC)
Sit down and take the weight off your feet for a spell.
And one day the ax just fell.
But I never did like it all that much
Workin' as a cook for a spell.
I had a job in the great North Woods
Despite his ill-fated spell at Anfield, he received a warm reception from the same Liverpool fans he struggled to win over before being sacked midway through last season.
A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.
They spelled the horses and rested in the shade of some trees near a brook.
to spell the helmsman
the Saxon heptarchy, when seven kings put together did spell but one in effect
He cast a spell to cure warts.
Please spell it out for me.
This spells trouble.
In Esperanto each letter has only one sound, and each sound is represented in only one way. The words are pronounced exactly as spelt, every letter being sounded.
The letters “a”, “n” and “d” spell “and”.
I find it difficult to spell because I'm dyslexic.
"He'll do," said Bildad, eyeing me, and then went on spelling away at his book in a mumbling tone quite audible.
He was much spelled with Eleanor Talbot.
Spelled with words of power.
Might I that legend find, / By fairies spelt in mystic rhymes.
O who can tell / The hidden power of herbes, and might of Magicke spell?