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Sentence Examples
| It doth also portend in some genitures sudden preferment, but an unlucky end thereof. |
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| He that doth usurp upon it, the Law doth intend that he hath purposed the destruction of the Prince. |
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| O noble, prudent folk in happier case! Your dice-box doth not tumble out ambsace. |
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| And I say unto you, ye are come unto the mountain of Amorites, which the Lord our God doth give unto us. |
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| She that a clinquant outside doth adore, Dotes on a gilded statue and no more. |
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| To think and speak of that day with horror doth well become the impenitent sinner, but ill the believing saint. |
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| Who deserts his father's race, seeks the black blood to debase, which thro' his own veins doth chase, he be accurst! |
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| The fairness of her face no tongue can tell, For she the daughters of all women's race, And angels eke, in beauty doth excell. |
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| My dear hearers, this very straitness of the path, this narrowness of the path, doth have in it something discouraging. |
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| The thirst that from the soul doth rise, doth ask a drink divine, but might I of Jove's nectar cup, I will not change for thine. |
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| Marry he doth consider, that by the King's Majesty, with all your advices and the consent of the nobles of the realm, he was called to the place. |
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| Not much of note, except for this section where methinks he doth protest too much about being more than just a legislator. |
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| Nay, we hurl the Truth against falsehood, and it knocks out its brain, and behold, falsehood doth perish! |
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| Marry, he doth not use to wear a night-cap, for his horns will not let him. |
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| Thus doth he annihilate himself, that he may omnify his Master, that Christ may be all in all. |
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| Whate'er my God ordains is right, I will be still whate'er He doth. |
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| Marry, doth my cousin Silence know, is he advised of the matter? |
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| He tries ever so hard to play down the significance of this glaring omission from an otherwise impeccable CV but he doth protest too much, methinks. |
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| O light of my life, o most beautiful goddess, who doth hold my heart and soul, would it please thee to give this gift unto me, this most miserable servant of thine? |
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| His cold experience tempers all his heat, And inbred worth doth boasting valour slight. |
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| The best of us doth not so much feare to wrong him, as he doth to injurie his neighbour, his kinsman, or his master. |
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| Yet it doth make a man fatte, and doth inflate the bely, as it doth appere by the doche mennes faces and belyes. |
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| The plasterer doth make his figures by addition, and the carver by substraction. |
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| The white of an egg with spirit of wine, doth bake the egg into clots, as if it began to poach. |
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| Marl is binding, and saddening of land is the great prejudice it doth to clay lands. |
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| The eye...Doth serue to stale her here and there where she doth come and go. |
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| In all Penelope's devotion to her husband there is an ever present sense that the lady doth protest too much. |
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| What notes and garments he doth give thee, Bring to the traject, to the common ferry, Which trades to Venice. |
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| Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, if it doth, then none dare call it treason. |
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| For, there is no vertue, doth so easily spread it selfe as military valiancie. |
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| The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth not attend the unskilful words of the passenger. |
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| Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt. |
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| And because the proceeding by interrogatories doth in my opinion much dilucidate things... I will make use of that artifice. |
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| An empiric oftentimes, and a silly chirurgeon, doth more strange cures than a rational physician. |
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| The remembrance whereof representing me her visage and Idea so lively and so naturally, doth in some sort reconcile me unto her. |
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| After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening of the earth. |
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| This doctrine doth abolish quite the doctrine of the law, of repentaunce,..and commaundeth a mammering doubtfulnesse. |
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| Love doth seldom suffer itself to be confined by other matches than those of its own making. |
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| I believe that the whole frame of a beast doth perish, and is left in the same state after death as before it was materialled unto life. |
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| It seldom doth happen, in any way of life, that a sluggard and a rakehell do not go together. |
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| There is one creeping beast, or long creeple, that hath a rattle at his tail that doth discover his age. |
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| When atheists and profane persons do hear of so many discordant and contrary opinions in religion, it doth avert them from the church. |
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| Our mind doth likewise take revenge of it, they lie, they cog, and deceive one another a vie. |
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| But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils. |
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| He that puts all upon adventures doth oftentimes break, and come to poverty. |
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| So the circuit or compass of Ireland is 1,800 miles, which is 200 less than Caesar doth reckon or account. |
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| What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in! |
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| The closeness and compactness of the parts resting together doth much confer to the strength of the union. |
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| Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume. |
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| What differences of sense and reason, what contrarietie of imaginations doth the diversitie of our passions present unto us? |
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| And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night, who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp so tediously away. |
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| This mathematical discipline, by the help of geometrical principles, doth teach to contrive several weights and powers unto motion or rest. |
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| Dreadly, in sooth, dreadly doth the wise augur move me, who approve not, nor am able to deny. |
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| From men besotted he doth honour steale, And yet with his effrontit shamelesse face, Seemes to command the diuell that gaue him place. |
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| And how doth my cousin, your bedfellow? and your fairest daughter and mine, my god-daughter Ellen? |
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| Truth, which wise men say doth lye in a Well, is not recoverable, but by exantlation. |
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| Human reason doth not only gradually, but specifically, differ from the fantastic reason of brutes. |
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| Then his food doth taste savourily, then his divertisements and recreations have a lively gustfulness. |
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| And that I have thowght that pardons doth profect them that be ded. And I have dowbted whether they profect them that be on lyef or not. |
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| The daughter of debate, that eke discord doth sowe Shal reap no gaine where formor rule hath taught stil peace to growe. |
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| For we see the vapour of quick-silver doth principally affect the brain and nervose parts. |
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| A trustier gloss than thou canst give From all wise scrolls demonstrative, The sea doth sigh and the wind sing. |
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| Industry doth beget by producing good habits, and facility of acting things expedient for us to do. |
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| Such a degree of heat, which doth neither melt nor scorch, doth mellow, and not adure. |
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| It seemeth, that the generality of things doth in some sort suffer for our annullation, and takes compassion of our state. |
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| Iron or a stone laid to the neck doth stanch the bleeding of the nose. |
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| The seigniorie also and principality of this part doth in great measure exceede all other prouinces that are vnder the protection of the great King. |
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| But how upon the winds being laid, doth the ship cease to move? |
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| To deliberate, be it but in slight matters, doth importune me. |
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| A pox vpon him for a Rogue sayes one And with that word he throwes at me a stone, A second my estate doth seeme to pitty, And sayes my Action's good, my speeches witty. |
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| How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? |
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| In all things desuetude doth contract and narrow our faculties. |
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| If a man should cast up his accounts once a week, or once a month, he may not be able to discern that he doth grow rich, and yet he may grow rich. |
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| Assuetude of things hurtful doth make them lose their force to hurt. |
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| Wher neuer cessing soyle doth steelebright stuff send out from mines. |
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| A Tyrant doth not only rapine his Subjects, but spoils and robs Churches. |
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| He buskling vp his burning Mane, doth dry the dropping south. |
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| Thus wisdom wishes to appear most bright When it doth tax itself, as these black masks Proclaim an enshield beauty ten times louder Than beauty could, displayed. |
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| Deliver'd with good respect. And how doth the Martlemas, your master? |
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| Doth that betoken its issue was with us getting a druye olders at all? |
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| To bring you thus together, 'tis no sin, Sith that the justice of your title to him Doth flourish the deceit. |
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| Doth it seem good to thee that thou shouldst calumniate me, and oppress me, the work of thy own hands, and help the counsel of the wicked? |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| How often would I have gathered you together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her winge, and ye would not? |
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| This blessedness then, doth it remain in the circumcision only or in the uncircumcision also? |
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| Yet I own, it doth increase it, and not so only, but dispraise doth diminish it. |
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| All good is in him or from him, and he that is best and doth most good is likest him. |
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| But who is this that goeth into Sherwood after Robin Hood, and why doth he go to seek him? |
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| For like as winter rasure doth alway arase and deface green summer, so fareth it by unstable love in man and woman. |
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| Birlady, birlady sir, you of all the rest are most welcome, what how doth your stomack after your carrowsing banquet? |
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| And in this sense and acceptation of the words, the natural frame and contexture doth well and pregnantly administer unto us. |
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| So doth the geometrician and arithmetician, in their diverse sorts of quantities. |
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| He that uses many words for the explaining of any subject doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself in his own ink. |
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| The author of the booke, intituled Eulogium historiarum, doth call this stret the Lelme. |
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| Much dining-out doth breed dyspepsia, and atrabilious views are apt to be a leetle lop-sided. |
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| The fly that will fall on none but the galled, ulcerous place, doth feed accordingly. |
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| But doth not Horatio doat on me, and may he not in despair break his heart if I abandon him? |
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| Or why the Noble Antoninus in some sence doth call the soul it self a rhombus? |
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| Thus have I, asked by thee, narrated to thee why Vindhya doth not increase in bulk, by reason of the power of Agastya. |
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| For as for that which doth not, it is its own fault and loss, if it bereave itself of her light. |
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| Nothing doth countervail a faithful friend, and his excellency is unvaluable. |
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| Thus doth the master give free scope to his slaves, and even enjoyeth their presumptuousness. |
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| He is choleric, and a little matter doth set him in a flame, so old as he is. |
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| The reason is, I opine, that each doth wait for his neighbour to make a move. |
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| But how passing well doth he time his absence from the haunts of the werewolf. |
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| Well doth it become Harmachis, who never was forsworn, to speak to me of oaths! |
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| Here Euclide doth by congruency comprehende two peripheries in one, and so doe we comprehend them. |
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| And from hence lastly doth arise the solidity of the section, by addition and subduction. |
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| For the law indifferently doth punish euery man, that without the Magistrates order taketh authority to venge his own wrong. |
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| Hence doth heav'nly justice Temper so evenly affection in us, It ne'er can warp to any wrongfulness. |
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| Dost thou accuse the son of thy brother of being a feigner of that which he doth not feel? |
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| And otherwhile, yt which hee carveth, doth not like him to whom it is geven. |
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| Of so many black ill-willers, which should he be that doth so hardily outface us? |
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| But, by my faith, I looked more at my Fritz than she doth at the Muscovite. |
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| And that which doth very much move me hereto is, because your converse hath been much in, and about the Counties of Devon. |
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| Her boreal bloom doth win Our eyes to feasting rare On rich delight of nacreous skin, And a wealth of whiteness fair. |
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| Go only to Father Balthazar, housefather, and see if he doth not call it a sending of a lamb among wolves. |
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| How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! |
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| My noble master thee doth scorn, And all thy cowardly crew, Such silly imps unable are Bold Robin to subdue. |
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| Of a truth it doth indeed, fair lord, albeit 'tis passing hard to say, though peradventure that will not tarry but better speed with usage. |
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| What doth the blackbird in the boughs Sing all day to his nested spouse? |
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| Bristol doth every year send away a shipload at least of such. |
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| Monsieur my brother, doth it please you that I shall explain in good French vernacular that Greek word which is written yonder on the wall? |
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| It happed them, as doth among folk, the one to cast the mind to the other. |
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| It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on. |
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| In which the drowzie God of sleepe his lither limbes doth rest. |
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| Thus doth benignant Heaven lighten the heavy pressure of toilful industry! |
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| Therefore his people return, and the waters of a full cup are wrung out to them, and they say, How doth God know? |
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| This house is dark and dull and drear No light doth shine from far or near Nor ever could. |
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| Tempt not the woman that doth incline her ear to thee, but harken to the voice of him that calleth. |
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| What is a plexus of the sun, and how doth it blow on a bull? |
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| Nobody scarce doth any good, yet they all agree in praising those who do. |
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| It is a hardy question, fair sir and Boss, since it doth go far to impugn the wisdom of even our holy Mother Church herself. |
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| For so this doth, and rids away as we call it, as fast as a man can run. |
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| He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart. |
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| Indeed, sir, if the book itself doth not make you ashamed of your commendations, nothing that I can here write will, or ought. |
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| Therefore it doth much add to a man's reputation, and is like perpetual letters commendatory, to have good forms. |
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| He doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men. |
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| Each lance for each man of the three doth its own pennon bear. |
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| But doth he aver that his people were used to plant fish with the corn? |
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| My first doth affliction denote, Which my second is destin'd to feel And my whole is the best antidote That affliction to soften and heal. |
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| It doth but need one good stroke to bring his crown in the dust. |
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| And by whom doth it most appear that temporally ye shall be punished? |
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| As Spring, Mother of many-coloured birth, doth rear The young light-hearted world, so Autumn drains The nectar of the world's maturity. |
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| In truth, the law of prophecy doth contradict the likelihoods, most strangely making the difficult easy, and the easy difficult. |
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| The deathwatch, like conscience, doth make cowards of us all. |
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| They shall haue moste thanke of hir that first doth it bring. |
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| And midst them all, perchance, my love Is waking, and doth gently move And stretch her soft arms out to me, Forgetting thousand leagues of sea. |
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| On most Sundays doth he preach here in the nave to all sorts of folk. |
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| Little green toad whose leg doth twist, Go to the corner of which you wist, And bring to me the large old kist. |
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| My friend, if cause doth wrest thee, Ere folly hath much oppressed thee, Far from acquaintance kest thee Where country may digest thee. |
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| Nor doth the Moon no nourishment exhale From her moist Continent to higher Orbes. |
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| The lealest lover time can show, Doomed for a lady-love to languish, Among these solitudes doth go, A prey to every kind of anguish. |
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| It doth seem to me that the name is not altogether strange to mine ears. |
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| Each mocking day doth fleece A blossom, and lay bare her poverty. |
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| And how doth Demeas, of the village of Colyttus, get his livelihood? |
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| My guardian angel is asleep At least he doth no vigil keep But far doth roam. |
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| The year is gone, we still unite To joke and laugh and read, And tread the path of literature That doth to glory lead. |
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| What they done, is laid up wheer neither moth or rust doth corrupt, and wheer thieves do not break through nor steal. |
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| Besides their clothes, the Abyssins have no movables or furniture of much value, or doth their manner of living admit of them. |
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| Yet, on the other hand, I cannot but think it shame that a man should turn God's mercy on and off, as a cellarman doth wine with a spigot. |
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| This house is dark and dull and dreer No light doth shine from far or near Its like the tomb. |
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| And if he was so good to forgive me a word spoken in haste or so, it doth not become such a one as you to twitter me. |
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| There, with that jingle in his head, a bracer on his left hand, a shooting glove on his right, and a farthing's-worth of wax in his girdle, what more doth a bowman need? |
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| The sixth, that it doth dull and damp all industries, improvements, and new inventions, wherein money would be stirring, if it were not for this slug. |
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| To be sure, one can't help pitying the poor young man, and yet he doth not deserve much pity neither, for demeaning himself with such kind of trumpery. |
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| As for mercenary forces, all examples show, that whatsoever estate or prince doth rest upon them, he may spread his feathers for a time, but he will mew them soon after. |
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| It is the decree of the court that she forfeit to the said lord bishop all her goods, even to the last farthing that she doth possess, and be thereto mulcted in the costs. |
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| Doth jealousy smile so benignantly and offer its house to the bride? |
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| Doth the universe lie within the compass of yonder town, which only a little time ago was but a leaf-strewn desert, as lonely as this around us? |
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| Doth not the true sage willingly walk on the crookedest paths? |
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