syke
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Well, then, fur the syke of 'is wife we mustn't be too sorry 'e's 'ere.
From The Convert by Robins, Elizabeth
And because his wyfe and other perceyued hym very syke and lyke to dye, they exortyd hym to be confessyd, and brought the curate vnto hym.
From Shakespeare Jest-Books Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare by Hazlitt, William Carew
It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh; But at the gates o' Paradise, That birk grew fair eneugh.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
Now certes, eem, to-morwe, and I him see, I shal ther-of as ful excusen me 810 As ever dide womman, if him lyke'; And with that word she gan ful sore syke.
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)
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