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Example sentences for "divers sorts"

  • So she had that bain prepared of tepid water, and it was very strong and potent with spices and powerful herbs of divers sorts.

  • Also she wore around her breast and throat a chain of shining silver studded with bright and sparkling gems of divers sorts.

  • Nor was it long before he gave his teachers a settled residence suited to their degree in his metropolis of Canterbury, with such possessions of divers sorts as were necessary for them.

  • It also produces vines in some places, and has plenty of land and water fowl of divers sorts; it is remarkable also for rivers abounding in fish, and plentiful springs.

  • And the table was spread with all manner of meats, and there was wine of divers sorts, both red and white, and they ate and drank with much appetite and great good-will.

  • After that I descended to the hall of that castle, and there I beheld that it was all hung with tapestries and fabrics of divers sorts and of very rich and beautiful designs.

  • And the damsel wore about her neck several shining necklaces of gold inset with jewels of divers sorts, and she wore armlets of gold also inset with jewels upon her arms, and her hair was gathered into a net of gold.

  • And Sir Ewaine beheld that here was a large and noble apartment hung with woven hangings representing pictures of battle and of court, and he beheld that the floor was spread with finely woven fabrics of divers sorts.

  • We dare not say he was a man of mixed principles, or one who wore a garment of divers sorts, of woollen and linen.

  • The garment which Lot wore was of divers sorts, of woollen and of linen.

  • There were then in this city weavers of divers sorts; to wit, of drapery, or tapery, and napery.

  • Of divers sorts of these many of my company brought also into England, every one taking the fairest for the best, which is not general.

  • We first discovered the whale by the fowls; for indeed I did never see so many fowls at once in my life before, their numbers being inconceivably great: they were of divers sorts, in bigness, shape and colour.

  • The soil in general is good, naturally producing very large trees of divers sorts, and fit for any uses.

  • Thus dismissed by their new queen the gay company sauntered gently through a garden, the young men saying sweet things to the fair ladies, who wove fair garlands of divers sorts of leaves and sang love-songs.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ambassador from; armed party; cannot come; divers colours; divers kinds; divers manners; divers parts; divers places; divers sorts; diverse forms; diverse kinds; elaborate report; eternal punishment; feet high; full page; important feature; knocked down; large dimensions; little note; moist places; ninety days; printing from; quench fire; rich loam; skimmed milk; warm through