Beshrew the man who on such a day as this, the general festival, should affect to stand aloof.
Beshrew the uncomfortable manager who abolished them!
Beshrew your heart, Fair daughter, you do draw my spirits from me With new lamenting ancient oversights!
Now, beshrewhis heart," quoth jolly Robin, "that would deny a butcher.
When Robin Hood heard what had been proclaimed he was vexed, and said, "Now beshrew this Sheriff that he should offer such a prize that none but shepherd hinds will care to shoot for it!
Whereupon my armed guards-- beshrewthem for cowards!
Mary, beshrewmy hand If it should give your age such cause of fear.
Now much beshrew my manners and my pride, If Hermia meant to say Lysander lied!
Beshrew me, if I would do such a wrong For the whole world.
Beshrew your heart, Fair daughter, you do draw my spirits from me With new lamenting ancient oversights.
Beshrew me, I would, And venture maidenhead for 't; and so would you, For all this spice of your hypocrisy.
Honest Bardolph, welcome; if thou want'st anything and wilt not call, beshrew thy heart.
Beshrew your heart for sending me about To catch my death with jauncing up and down!
I fear'd he did but trifle And meant to wrack thee; but beshrew my jealousy!
Beshrew my heart else," answered the tapster, "since there are but four miles betwixt us and Oxford.
Beshrew me, Flibbertigibbet," replied Wayland, "but thou art sharper than a Sheffield whittle!
Bright paragon, pass on in joy and bliss;-- Beshrew the gate that opes not wide at such a sight as this!
Beshrew me, but I think thou art distraught already," answered the Queen.
Beshrew me," said Christie, "if it looked not like a man's hand holding a sword.
The bishop and I are strong enough to carry the matter; beshrew me, am I not the one to judge who is the best workman?
Beshrew me if they will not soon persuade me that I am an old dotard, knowing neither what I say nor what I do!
Beshrew me, but it is the monkey boy, as my little Nell persists in calling him!
Beshrew me, but were I in his place I should feel the same!
There's the wine, an it's not better than your temper, beshrew me for the enemy of true hospitality.
Beshrew me," said the king, modifying his last observation, "if women are not all eyes and ears!
Beshrew me, I thought the jester was a craven," growled he of the boar.
Beshrew me, if my wife and thee could not make exchange of some portion of her spirit and thy meekness to the advantage of both.
Mr. Rookwood declares he is more contented with his son's choice than if he married Mistress Spencer, or any other heiress; and beshrew me, if I be not contented also.
Beshrew me, but I think she did it to show the poor dean how much better her memory served her than his had done, for she looked round to where he was standing ere she resumed her discourse.
Beshrew me, if I had not deemed you to be made of other metal than the common herd.
Why, Mistress Mason," he cried, "beshrew me if you are not rehearsing a rare piece of poesy!
And when it reached the landing-place, beshrew me if I did not at once see a man dressed in some kind of a merchant suit, which, from the marks I had of his features from Master Parsons, I made sure was the reverend father.
And beshrew me if I would either rob thee of it, mine own good Nan, or its old walls of thy sweet presence when I shall be dead.
But beshrew me if I liked not better Master Basil, albeit he was sometimes very troublesome, but not techey or rude as some boys be.
Now let us go apace; And I be last there, I beshrewmy face!
Now I beshrew his heart, that to that will not agree; But yet because the time shall not seem very long, Ere we depart, let us have a merry song.
If there be any wine to sell, They shall no longer together dwell; No, then I beshrew my heart.
Marriage or marriage not, beshrew me then, I have but one master, and I will serve no mo, And if he anger me, I will forsake him too.
Sonnet 133, written to the woman, is decisive: "Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan For that deep wound it gives my friend and me!
Beshrew him for me, that is last out of this place.
I speak as I think now, else I beshrew Even my next fellow's head!
Beshrew your heart, (Faire Daughter) you doe draw my Spirits from me, With new lamenting ancient Ouer-sights.
Honest Bardolfe, welcome: If thou want'st any thing, and wilt not call, beshrew thy heart.
Beshrew me, if, at a distance, I did not imagine the casks of wine to be houses, and the heaps of corn mountains.
Guy, with an air of perplexity; 'beshrew me if I ever before heard of their names.
Beshrew me, sir Templar, if I deem not this caliph foolhardy to run the risk of being attacked, without fighting men to defend him.
Beshrew him for't: How comes this Tricke vpon him?
Beshrew me if I drink the king's health, or that of his minion, Anne Boleyn!
Beshrew me if I go not to his Majesty myself and tell him the whole truth.
Death tarries for no man, and, beshrew me, it will not tarry for us either.
And, beshrew me, that's enough for any man"; and the Lord of Haddon reverently crossed himself to show that the trial had had the approval of his conscience.
Beshrew me, Wat, let but a scare be started and she would hang every ill-favoured fellow she clapped eyes on.
I like thy spirit, and, beshrew me, 'twill serve thee better with a sensible maiden than any amount of pretty speeches and cooing verses.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beshrew" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
