"Brede" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... out-toke me thare amang Fra my faas that war sa strang, And fra tha me that hated ai; For samen strenghthed over me war thai 18. Thai forcome me in daie of twinging, And made es Layered mi forhiling. 19. And he led me in brede to be; Sauf made he me, for he wald me; 20. And foryhelde to me Laverd sal After mi rightwisenes al. And after clensing of mi hende Sal he yhelde to ...
— English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day • Walter W. Skeat
... Passing down the Brede Kirk Straet they saw Joan at the door. Reicht said to her, "Eh, woman, she has been to your hermit, and heard no ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade
... tresoier Sette into the cupbort Vostre pain, vostre fourmage, Your brede, your chese, 4 Vostre bure, vostre viande, Your butter, your mete, Et aultres companages, And othir white mete, Le relief de la table. The leuynge of the table. Faictes quil y aist du seel Doo that ther be salte ...
— Dialogues in French and English • William Caxton
... degwamlich geof us to daeg. Ur ilk day brede give us to day. Give to us this day oure breed ovir othir substaunce, Geve us this day ur ...
— A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 (of 2) • John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
... When Heaven, for some divine offence, Smote Florence with the pestilence; And in that garden's odorous shade, The dames of the Decameron, With each a loyal lover, strayed, To laugh and sing, at sorest need, To lie in the lilies in the sun With glint of plume and silver brede! And while she whispered in my ear, The pleasant Arno murmured near, The dewy, slim chameleons run Through twenty colors in the sun; The breezes broke the fountain's glass, And woke aeolian melodies, And shook from out the scented trees The lemon-blossoms on the grass. The tale? I have forgot ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 • Various
... oo nombre into a-nother, wherfor it is called{e} sup{er}ficial, for it hath{e} .2. nombres notyng or mesuryng{e} hym, as a sup{er}ficiall{e} thyng{e} hath{e} .2. dimensions, {a}t is to sey length{e} and brede. And for bycause a nombre may be had{e} in a-nother by .2. man{er}s, {a}t is to sey other in hym-self{e}, o{er} in ano{er}, Vnderstond{e} yf it be had in hym-self, It is a quadrat. ffor dyvisio{u}n write by vnytes, hath{e} .4. sides even as a quadrangill{e}. and yf the nombre be had{e} ...
— The Earliest Arithmetics in English • Anonymous
... the tables, ichon by hem selve Sixe foote in brede, and xii in length is beste To clense and ...
— The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare • Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
... stone faces kindle in the glow, And into the blank eyes the irids grow, And through the dawning irids ambushed meanings show. Illumined this wise on, He threads securely the far intricacies, With brede from Heaven's wrought vesture overstrewn; Swift Tellus' purfled tunic, girt upon With the blown chlamys of her fluttering seas; And the freaked kirtle of the pearled moon: Until he gain the structure's core, ...
— Sister Songs • Francis Thompson
... they had intended or foreseen, perhaps; Montesquieu, despite the wise moderation of his great and strong mind, had been the first to awaken that yearning for novelty and reforms which had been silently brooding at the bottom of men's hearts. Born in 1689 at the castle of La Brede, near Bordeaux, Montesquieu really belonged, in point of age, to the reign of Louis XIV., of which he bears the powerful imprint even amidst the boldness of his thoughts and expressions. Grandeur is the distinctive characteristic ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume VI. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot |
