swich
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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For ye, that been of torment in swich rage, May to no long prologe as now entende; And her-upon ye may answere him sende.
From Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer, Geoffrey
But al to litel, weylawey the whyle, Lasteth swich Ioye, y-thonked be Fortune!
From Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Grimm, Florence M.
I shal thy proces sette in swich a kinde, And god to-forn, that it shall thee suffyse, 335 For it shal been right as thou wolt devyse.
From Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer, Geoffrey
And ther thou woost that I have ought miswent, Eschewe thou that, for swich thing to thee scole is; Thus ofte wyse men ben war by folis.
From Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer, Geoffrey
But swich a nede was to preye him thenne, As for to bidde a wood man for to renne.
From Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer, Geoffrey
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