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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Scarlok stode full stil and loughe, And sayd, ‘By God Almyght, Johnn may gyve hym gode mesure, For it costeth hym but lyght.’
From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Sidgwick, Frank
She sought for chains to gyve about her soul and, in her relationship with Traill, she fondly dreamed that she had found them.
From Sally Bishop A Romance by Thurston, E. Temple (Ernest Temple)
‘Yf it be so,’ than sayd our kynge, ‘It may no better be; Seven nyght I gyve thee leve, No lengre, to dwell fro me.’
From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Sidgwick, Frank
Then came Raffles with soap and water, and the gyve was wheedled from one wrist, as you withdraw a ring for which the finger has grown too large.
From Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
‘I gyve it hym with my charter, And sele it with my honde, To have and holde for ever more, In all mery Englonde.’
From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Sidgwick, Frank
Bloom wound a skein round four forkfingers, stretched it, relaxed, and wound it round his troubled double, fourfold, in octave, gyved them fast.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
With these fetters I gyved my own hands; Truly I became a much-deceived man.
From More Translations from the Chinese by Waley, Arthur
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
By God, with me it is all wrong, I have a pair of sore buttocks, All in irons was my song, Even now I sat gyved in a pair of stocks.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by Hazlitt, William Carew
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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