gyve
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
verb
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of gyve
1175–1225; Middle English give < ?
Example Sentences
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And still in the white neat bed I strive Most impotently against that gyve; Being less now than a thought, even, To you alone with your hills and heaven.
From The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke by Brooke, Rupert
God save you good life and honour gyve you God.
From An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly by Du Wés, Giles
L. If this be all the prayse you can gyve him, you will no more offend me with tediousnes.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony
"Say, rather, to melt the iron links which gyve soul to body," said Clifton, in constrained articulation, through which a moaning undertone seemed ever trying to be heard.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 by Various
“Bli’ me,” he said, “they’ve gawn an’ gyve me a ticket to th’ bloomink end o’ Scotland!”
From The Black Watch A Record in Action by Cassells, Joe
To escape with a lifeless form gyved to his hand was out of the question.
From The Gray Phantom's Return by Landon, Herman
So gyved, lagged the hope of the independents to his task.
From The Henchman by Luther, Mark Lee
He twisted his two gyved hands around and got one of them into his coat pocket.
From A Pagan of the Hills by Buck, Charles Neville
"Prithee, good Motley," he questioned, "what should bring so rare a Fool to lie in dungeon fettered and gyved along of innocent rogues and roguish robber?"
From The Geste of Duke Jocelyn by Farnol, Jeffery
They are fettered and gyved by what they have said and done.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen by Hubbard, Elbert
To mourn in plasmic Temple's fold With gyving sod no King can shirk!
From Betelguese A Trip Through Hell by de Esque, Jean
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