It serveth for many good uses and for none better then for betinge of stubborne boyes that ether lye or will not learne.
Of the wild hyacinth he writes: "The boyes in North[=u]berland scrape the roote of the herbe and glew theyr arrowes and bokes wyth that slyme that they scrape of.
A litle after that a Mareschal, or ferrier, or Smith felled on of his boyes at the Scotes Walk because he demanded money of him, escaped to Lusignan, wheir he was taken.
Marcus, Euen thou hast stroke vpon my Crest, And with these Boyes mine Honour thou hast wounded, My foes I doe repute you euery one.
Giue me thy poyniard, you shal know my boyes Your Mothers hand shall right your Mothers wrong Deme.
The boyes tooke much delight in its shade, and it furnish't them with their scoopes and nutt-crackers.
He is my old acquaintance, and I desired him to tell me freely if the Irish Boyes had as good witte as the English; because some of our severe witts have ridiculed the Irish understanding.
One of the boyes wore a little dagger by his side, which was melted in the scabbard, and the scabbard not hurt.
IN the reigne of King James 1st, as boyes were at play in Amesbury- street, it thundred and lightened.
Brabant is a wild daredevil, who rushes on like a mountain torrentBoyes is brainy; careful, and yet dashing.
I haue two Boyes Seeke Percy and thy selfe about the Field: But seeing thou fall'st on me so luckily, I will assay thee: so defend thy selfe Dow.
And therefore is Loue said to be a childe, Because in choise he is often beguil'd, As waggish boyes in game themselues forsweare; So the boy Loue is periur'd euery where.
Call hither Clifford, bid him come amaine, To say, if that the Bastard boyes of Yorke Shall be the Surety for their Traitor Father Yorke.
Yes, yes, he teaches boyes the Horne-booke: What is Ab speld backward with the horn on his head?
These boyes are boyes of Ice, they'le none haue heere: sure they are bastards to the English, the French nere got em La.
Oh wither'd is the Garland of the Warre, The Souldiers pole is falne: young Boyes and Gyrles Are leuell now with men: The oddes is gone, And there is nothing left remarkeable Beneath the visiting Moone Char.
I invitedBoyes to turn into the Temple Club for half an hour.
That a man should have played the host to him in a club of which that host was not a member was to Boyes the unforgivable offence.
Boyes was a most highly respectable person, the very pink of propriety, and an inordinate stickler for les convenances.
In Salem, in 1676, it was ordered by the town that "all ye boyes of ye towne are appointed to sitt upon ye three paire of stairs in ye meeting-house, and Wm.
Three boyes on hobbie-horses with three penny halberts, Would beat you all.
I[~t]m the forsaied daye paied to thomas Ogull for vj dayes meales for the saied boyes after v d.
This onys[207] had, boyes lyvis be such as no man leddys.
Wee will cause all the boyes in the streete to hisse at thee.
Yea (to bring these examples neerer home) the like hath hapned both before and sithence, amongst boyes in other places.
Therefore I haue agreed with these two boyes to serue the worshipfull companie foure yeeres a piece.
The boyes in the streetes crie out and make a noyse in the meanetime, with very dishonest wordes.
Nay you shall finde no Boyes play heere, I can tell you.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "boyes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
