Let th’Goth his strongest chaines prepare, The Scythian hence mee captive teare, My mind being free with you, I’le stare The Tyrants in the face.
My hart shall be the prison for my fayre; Ile fetter her in chainesof purest loue, My sighs shall stop the passage of the ayre: This punishment the pittilesse may moue.
Then Chaines which on St. George's Day are showne, 10 Are proper to the wearers?
Which thing they granted, and gaue mee two men which I put in chaines for feare they should escape away, as I knew well they were instructed to doe.
They led these Indians in chaines with yron collars about their neckes: and they serued to carrie their stuffe, and to grind their Maiz, and for other seruices that such captiues should doe.
Of them they make beads, and weare them about their necks, euen as we doe chaines of gold and siluer, accounting it the preciousest thing in the world.
Describing their progress up the river Monckton says, "We came too off Point aux Chaines to sound.
Point aux Chaines in English means Oak Point, and the identity of the situation of Oak Point and of Monckton's Point aux Chainesis clearly shown in the plan of the river.
The image shaketh his chaines ouer his head, as he sate writing.
Certaine as wayes unto the blinde, More reall then her flatt'ries are; Gentle as chaines that honour binde, More faithfull then an Hebrew Jew, But as the divel not halfe so true.
This Queen of Prey (now prey to you), Fast to that pirch of ivory In silver chaines and silken clue, Hath now made full thy victory: II.
Assure your selves, you both shall suffer death: But for Fallerio, he shall hang inchaines After he's dead, for he was principall.
A Flourish; Enter Henricke the Prince, Bellizarius, Hubert, leading Eugenius in Chaines with other Prisoners and Souldiers.
Whereupon hanged two crownes, a bigger and a lesse, with three chaines of a maruellous length, and often doubled; besides a bagge of the herbe Tabah.
Mon oeil a parcouru la terre J'y trouve a peine la pouissiere D'un dome a ton nom consacre, Un tyran siege aux Thermopyles Et sous les chaines les plus viles Le capitole est encombre.
Could I shake those Chaines off I would cutt Capers: poore Dick Pike would dance though Death pip'd to him; yes, and spitt in your Hangman's face.
Sidenote: These are like chaines of Esurnoy in Canada and Hochelage.
Among other things of golde that our men bought of them for exchange of their wares, were certaine dog-chaines and collers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chaines" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
