General) Sentir le coude à gauche, to feel certain of the support of friends.
Popular) Frimer, to make a good appearance; to look well; to pretend.
Rogues who practise it are in most cases apprehended, detectives being in the habit of impersonating drunkards asleep on benches late at night.
Me lacketh witte / I haue none eloquence To gyue hym lawde / after his excellence For I dar saye / he lefte hym not a lyue That coude his connyng / sufficiently discriue 392 THE ORIEL TEXT.
Beholde Oclyff in his translacion, In goodly langage and sentence passing wyse, Yevyng the prince suche exortacion 353 As to his highnesse he coude best devyse.
Albert knewe not of/ ner coude fynde in all hys bookes ony suche money to hym due And this lyar coude not brynge no wytnessis/ but began to braye.
Ther-to she coude skippe and make game, As any kide or calf folwinge his dame.
Wel coude she carie a morsel, and wel kepe, Thatte no drope ne fell upon hire brest.
His ship was rent so lowe, in swich manere, That carpenter ne coude hit nat amende.
And wel coude I, yif that me leste so, 2470 Tellen al his doing to and fro.
So derk hit was, hecoude nowher go; 2415 And with a wawe brosten was his stere.
Her suster Anne, as she that coude her good, Seide as her thoughte, and somdel hit with-stood.
Tho stoden forth, on every rowe, Of hem which that I coude knowe, Thogh I hem noght by ordre telle, To make yow to long to dwelle.
And mochel sorwe hadde he in his minde Er that he coude his felawshippe finde.
For, says the poet, "He that it wroughte coude ful many a gin; He wayted many a constellacioun, Er he had doon this operacioun.
It is held to the lower edge of the coude by a rivet.
The Rerebrace is strapped over the mail, and the disc at the bend of the Coudeor elbow-piece is held in place by Aiguillettes or laces--called at a later period Arming-points.
The coude and genouilliere are both smaller than in the Gothic suit, and fit more closely to the limbs.
In the next example (Plate III, 5) we find the mail still worn on the legs and arms, but on the latter the vambrace and the coude plate seem to be hinged in the manner adopted during the period of full armour.
The coude is sometimes pivoted in the same manner, but more often it is rigid and of such circumference that the arm can bend within it and yet be very adequately protected.
But for that he coude nat fynde certayne ende of goodnes and hyest felicite in naturall thinges: nor induce men to the same, he gaue the hye contemplacions of his mynde to moral vertues.
Mannys fourme is disfigured with euery degre As Knyght Squyer yeman Jentilman and knaue, For al in theyr goynge vngoodely them behaue The tyme hath ben, nat longe before our dayes Whan men with honest ray coude holde them self content.
Coude nat the damsell (by name Danes) defende But that Jupiter fonde a cautell and trayne In a golden shoure into hir to discende And to be short, at conclusyon and ende This mayde for all this Toure was there defylyd.
Wel coude he knowe, he well knew how to distinguish.
Short was his gowne, with sleves long and wide, Wel coude he sitte on hors, and fayre ride.
He coude songes make, and wel endite, Juste and eke dance, and wel poutraie and write.
So moche he perswaded hym selfe, that nothyng coude plese them that was well and truely spoken.
Of the Welcheman that coude nat gette but a lytell male.
The man said, the breche was so openly founde, that he coude nat hyde it.
There was a mery felowe in hygh Almayn, the whiche, with his scoffynge and iestynge, had so moche displeased a great lorde of the countreye, that he thretned to hange hym, if euer he coude take hym in his countrey.
The franklyn, perceyuynge that he coude no good nor wold not depart by none other meanes, answeryd hym shortely and sayd: by God!
The rude fole, nat knowinge the cause, behelde here and there aboute, and whan he coude se no skrappes nor parynges, he was sore troubled in his mynde.
A rude vplandisshe ploughman, on a tyme[185] reprouynge a good holy father sayd, that hecoude saye all his prayers with a hole mynde and stedfaste intention, without thinkyng on any other thynge.
This mayde, whan she had longe sought for wode to dresse the sayde mete, told her maystres that she coude fynde no wode that was drye, except onelye the pycture of olde John that lyeth under the bed.
He was but a poore man, and yet the greatnes of the gyft coude nothinge moue hym.
For he was wys, and coude sone aspye Of every servaunt, which that serveth here.
Wel coude he fortunen the ascendent Of his images for his pacient.
Or half the blisse who coudewryte or tel Whan the holy goost to thee was obumbred, Wherthrough fendes were utterly encombred?
Power me thought that I had to kepe fro myne enemyes, and me semed to shyne in glorie of renome as manhood asketh in mene; for no wight in myne administracion coudenon yvels ne trechery by sothe cause on me putte.
Me were lever her honour, her plesaunce, and her good chere thorow me for to be mayntayned and kept, and I of suche thinge in her lykinge to be cause, than al the welthe of bodily goodes ye coude recken.
They wiste how sotilly they coude assayle 255 Hem, and what falshood they in herte mente; And thise clerkes they in hir daunger hente.
This time Tarzan did not start, but again De Coude knew that he had hit.
De Coude took his wife's hands in his, and gazed upon her pale and troubled countenance for some time before he spoke, as though he would wrest from those beautiful eyes the real reason which prompted her to shield this man.
De Coude hesitated, as though waiting to see his antagonist crumple to the ground.
Several times De Coude had called, and when he found that Tarzan was anxious for employment of some nature he promised to see what could be done to find a berth for him.
Then through the palace of the Count de Coude rang the awesome challenge of the bull ape that has made a kill.
In startled guilt they looked suddenly into each other's eyes, and where Olga de Coude should have been strong she was weak, for she crept closer into the man's arms, and clasped her own about his neck.
A moment later De Coudewas apologizing to his host as he tore open the envelope.
Occasionally De Coude dropped in, but the multitudinous affairs of his official position and the never-ending demands of politics kept him from home usually until late at night.
De Coudeis accredited with being a master with the sword, and a splendid shot.
Rokoff and the Countess de Coude both in the same evening," he soliloquized; "Paris is not so large, after all.
As to leaving Paris at this time, I rather think that Raoul de Coude may be expected to have something to say on that subject before long.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coude" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
