syke
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Up-on my sorwes syke Have mercy, swete herte myn, Cryseyde!
From Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer, Geoffrey
It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh; But at the gates o' Paradise, That birk grew fair eneugh.
From Ballad Book by Bates, Katherine Lee
Quod Pandarus, `For ought I can espyen, 1135 This light, nor I ne serven here of nought; Light is not good for syke folkes yen.
From Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer, Geoffrey
In these lay a gret multitude of syke men, blinde, crokid, and drye.—Wicliffe,
From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
For Gawd's syke," he exclaimed, "don't yer know as 'ow we are goin' hout?
From Private Peat by Peat, Harold Reginald
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