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Example sentences for "fained"

Lexicographically close words:
faim; faimily; fain; faine; faineant; faining; faint; fainted; fainter; faintest
  1. In the meane season, Thrasillus fained much sorrow for the death of Lepolemus, but in his heart he was well pleased and joyfull.

  2. No state so sure, no seate within this life But that maie fall, thoughe longe the same haue stoode: Here fauninge foes, here fained frendes are rife.

  3. Wherein haue I deserued thys discurtesy, if not by louyng thee more than thy beauty and fained loue deserue?

  4. If my passion were not vehement, and my torment without comparison, I would wish my fained griefs to be laughed to scorne, and my dissembled payne rewarded with flouts.

  5. And thus I kept still within doores at my worke, and fained my selfe not well at ease, and that I would labour as I might to get me new clothes.

  6. Indians in a small canoe with a fained message to view the manner of the brigandines, and what weapons they had.

  7. For, as he was by office Collector of the Peter pence to the Popes gaine and lucre, so sheweth he himselfe throughout by profession, a coveteous gatherer of lying fables, fained to advance the Popish religion, kingdome and myter.

  8. He brought with him from Jerusalem some date-tree leaves, and a pocke full of stones, which he fained were taken out of the pillar to which Christ was bound when he was scourged.

  9. Then shall Lombards and other fained friends Make her chalenges by colour false offends, And say their chaffare in the shippes is, And chalenge al.

  10. I am like other clerkes which so frowardly them gyde, That after they are once come unto promotion, They give them to pleasure, their study set aside, Their avarice covering with fained devotion.

  11. The sayd Poulet and the other fained themselues onely to be come to visit Donnacona, and bring him certaine presents, because they had beene together a good while in the sayd Donnaconas Towne.

  12. M638) Which was nothing els but a fained plot.

  13. How Donnacona came to Stadacona againe with a great number of people, and because he would not come to visit our Captaine, fained himselfe to be sore sicke, which he did only to haue the Captaine come see him.

  14. For by them we may talke at large and win men by persuasion, if we declare beforehand that these tales were not fained of such wisemen without cause.

  15. In the later, it is, as hath beene saide, one of the principall Portions of learning, and is nothing else but Fained History, which may be stiled as well in Prose as in Verse.

  16. With smiles, with flatt'ring wordes, and fained cheere, With sighes and flattering woordes and teares.

  17. Well, now Mountney is gone, I'll stay behind to solicit my love; for I imagine that I shall find this but a fained invention, thereby to have us leave off our suits.

  18. Tell me, sweet Em, hast thou but fained all this while for his love, that hath so descourteously forsaken thee?

  19. Why may not this be fained subteltie, by Mountneys invention, to the intent that I seeing such occasion should leave off my suit and not any more persist to solicit her of love?

  20. In the morning, when he beheld his bloudy face all mangled and torne, he fained to be very sicke, and that he could abide no light, til the company were gone from his house.

  21. But what she should be, it was beyond my compasse to imagine, and I stood as suspicious thereof, as the deceiued Socia with the fained Atlantiades.

  22. Asterie the daughter to Cæus, and Alchmena with hir fained husband.

  23. There must thou fashion eke a godly zeale, Such as no carpers may contrayre reveale: For each thing fained ought more warie bee.

  24. All these through fained crimes he thrust adowne, Or made them dwell in darknes of disgrace: For none but whom he list might come in place.

  25. All these through fained crimes he thrust adowne, Or made them dwell in darknes of disgrace; For none, but whom he list, might come in place.

  26. There must thou fashion eke a godly zeale, Such as no carpers may contrayre reveale; For each thing fained ought more warie bee.

  27. Herein did he much inueie against the surmised and false fained law Salike, which the Frenchmen alledge euer against the kings of England in barre of their iust title to the crowne of France.


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