"Wex" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... blawen to e depe; Sail{yn} forthe soberly, somyn but a while, Noght fyftene forlong fairly to the end. . . . . . . . . . . . When sodenly the softe aire unsoberly rose; The cloudis overcast, claterrit aboute; Wyndes full wodely walt up the ythes; Wex merke as the mydnighte mystes full thicke: Thunret in the thestur throly with all; With a launchant laite lightonyd the water; And a ropand rayne raiked fro the heuyn. The storme was full stithe with mony stout ...
— Early English Alliterative Poems - in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century • Various
... divisio{u}n made as it is opened{e} before]] That done ought or nought most be the residue. If it be nought, It is open that the nombre p{ro}posed{e} was a cubik{e} nombre, And his rote a digit founde last w{i}t{h} the vnder-triples: If the rote therof wex bad{e} in hym-self{e}, and afterward{e} p{ro}duct they shall{e} make the first fig{ur}es. And yf ought be in residue, kepe that w{i}t{h}out in the table; and it is open{e} that the nombre was not a cubik{e}. but a digit last founde w{i}t{h} the vndirtriplis is rote of the most cubik{e} ...
— The Earliest Arithmetics in English • Anonymous
... and spirits; and many and many's the night that I've had to support him home. And you may be sure that Miss Betsy did not now desert her sister: she was at our place mornink, noon, and night; not much to my mayster's liking, though he was too good-natured to wex ...
— Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush - The Yellowplush Papers • William Makepeace Thackeray |
