Far to the right of the good guest, we descry the parasite; far to the left, the churl again.
There is no churl that does not rejoice with it in its strength, and in the swiftness and cunning that baffle its pursuer, who, he too, when the chase is over, bears it no ill will at all for its escapade.
Nothing that we know of Lucullus suggests that he was less inhuman than the churl of Arden.
Call me not butcher andchurl too often, Lord King, ere thou hast found whether thou needest me or not.
If it were not for his brown face and short hair, he is as like the fellow as a churl can be to a knight.
How will you take an island where four kings such as you (if the world would hold four such at once) could not stop one churl from ploughing the land, or one bird-catcher from setting lime-twigs?
A Birmingham artisan, whose churl ancestor would have deemed it an honour to run beside the stirrup of my forefathers, now dwells in the hall of the Mandeville.
I sent back the Podesta of Trieste's daughter to her father safe, and without ransom, when the villain churl refused to pay it.
Elfric, "thou canst not expect that the life of a churl can ever be priced so high as that of a noble, or that the same doom shall await the man that kills a Lord and the man that kills a peasant!
Aye," said one of the serfs, "but the value of the life of a churl was not more than the price of a few bullocks; whereas hides of land or the worth of hundreds of bullocks was to be paid by him that slew a thane.
The churl from Tottington grew quite pale, and said, "I dare not do it!
Grettir climbed over the stones into the cave, and there he saw a great fire flaming from amidst brands of drift-wood; and there was the Stream-churl seated there, a great Troll with a hideous face.
I have no doubt that she told Grettir about this, and also that she believed that the Stream-churl who lived under Goda-foss had carried off both her husband and the servant.
He had got a house-churl called Finn, and he and Finn had some talk together.
The churl answered sullenly that he would speak, and he had nothing to conceal.
There now they abode peaceably, and Grettir told his brother and his churl Glaum the story of what had taken place at the assize, and thus the summer wore away.
Many curses were heaped on the churl who had befooled them, but they could not find him when the went after him to chastise him.
So Illugi drove the churl from the hut every morning, notwithstanding his angry remonstrances; and Glaum was in the worst of humours.
Wherever there was a cataract, there the Stream-churl was believed to live, hidden away behind the curtain of falling water.
The Emperor did do slit the belly of him with a knife from the breast down to the navel, and said withal to the Knight, that never should the son of that churl have to wife his daughter, nor be emperor after him.
When the Emperor had hearkened this a great while, he said to the knight: "Hast thou heard it of yonder churl how he prayeth that his wife may be delivered of her child, and another while prayeth that she may not be delivered?
The fierce warrior went, his weapon he raised, His shield for a shelter; to the soldier he came; The chief to the churl a challenge addressed; Each to the other had evil intent.
The horse which Mary Queen of Scots had sent with the message of the birth of her son was being led to the Queen by the dark browed, pale-faced churl who had brought it from Scotland.
The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.
The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
The Churlput on his coat and took his stick in his hand.
Oh, he is an unkind man, my gossip, the Churlof the Townland of Mischance.
One day the Churl said to him, "Go into the town for salt for my supper, take the short way across the pasture-field, and be sure not to let the grass grow under your feet.
The mummers were dancing before they began the play when the Churl came into the barn.
The Churl stood up, and then put his glass to his head and drained what was in it.
Now I'll tell you what my gossip the Churl of the Townland of Mischance does: he makes a bargain with the youth that goes into his service, telling him he will give him a guinea, a groat and a tester for his three months' service.
This thought made the Churl very downcast, because, for many months now, he had got hard labor out of his serving-boys, without giving them a single cross for wages.
The Churl sat on the bench with the farmer who had a score of cows, with the blacksmith who shod the King's horses, and with the merchant who had been in foreign parts and who wore big silver rings in his ears.
The Spae-Woman wiped the tears from her face with her apron, gave Gilly a cake with her blessing, and he started off with the Churl for the Townland of Mischance.
And what sort of a man is your gossip, the Churl of the Townland of Mischance?
After that the Churl was very careful when he gave Gilly an order to speak to him very exactly.
Then, after that, came the troubles and pilgrimage of my husband into my mind, and also how like a churl I had carried it to him as to that.
But as the churl was walking away while he was speaking, I cannot say that these were his ipsissima verba.
Then there is this: if a man be slain we reckon all equally dear, English and Dane, at eight half marks of pure gold, except the churl who dwells on gavel land and their leisings, they are also equally dear at two hundred shillings.
On this he answered, "I am the emperor's viceregent here, And will not that each peasant churl should build At his own pleasure, bearing him as freely As though he were the master in the land.
I am not such a base, degenerate churl As love's dominion rudely to assail.
She hated and despised the Saxon churl given her for a lord, kind, generous, and pious though he was; and having set her affections on a young Norman, herself became the accuser of her husband.
William Etheling is reported to have been as proud as his sister Maude, and to have talked of using the churl Saxons as beasts of burden.
Such handsel is not new unto mine ears; Therefore let Fortune turn her wheel around As it may please her, and the churl his mattock.
For all the towns of Italy are full Of tyrants, and becometh a Marcellus Each peasant churlwho plays the partisan!
Alsi's face became black at that, for here was not the friendless churl he was scoffing at.
So presently it seemed to the princess that the churlwas gone, as it were, and in his place was a wandering atheling, at least, who was not a terror at all.
He was a malevolent churl too, Hildegarde thought; indeed she was sure of it.
Her heart burned with indignation against the graceless, thankless churlwho could rob the man on whose charity he had been living for two years.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "churl" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
