As bare as erst when Vulcan took them short, And how the rest roll, glide and move, I see, How their aspects benign or froward be.
No doubt a very froward Impe, and a towarde Champion for the diuel's Theatre: and as it is sayd hereafter, so goodly a yong man in Stature and other externe qualities of the body, as Nature could not frame a better.
I woulde to God shee sawe the bottome of my heart, and viewed the Closet of my mynde, that shee might iudge of my firme fayth and know the wrong she doth me by hir rigor and froward will.
When Sir Galahad heard her say so he was sore adread to be known: therewith he smote his horse with his spurs, and rode a great pace froward them.
When king Mark saw him do so, as fast as Sir Dinadan rode toward them king Mark rode froward them with all his menial company.
And ever Sir Tristram traced and traversed, and went froward him here and there, and covered him with his shield as he might all weakly, that all men said he was overcome.
Ah, froward Clarence, how evil it beseems the To flatter Henry and forsake thy brother!
How many sensible Husbands endure the teizing Tongue of a froward Wife only because she is the weaker Vessel?
What Pity it was thesefroward Misses and Masters of Musick had not been engag'd to entertain the Court of some King of Morocco, that could have known a good Opera from a bad one!
Grant, then, that they may go straight on in the path of Thy Cause, the path wherein have slipped the footsteps of the doubters among Thy people and the froward among Thy servants.
I have been wild, I have been wanton, I have ever followed my fancy and will: I have been to my father a froward son, And from day to day continued still.
Lord, thou knowest Jacob to be thy servant true, And Esau all froward thy ways to ensue.
For by this foolish froward fashion they sometimes fall in great disgrace and take by it no little harm.
But that is his goodness ever ready to do, unless there be hindrance through the untowardness of our own froward will.
Fye, fye, what moves you to thys froward wellcome?
These humours of yours, my beloved child, your froward temper, which estranges you from your friends and sisters, and carries you into the arms of trifling persons, is a disease and perversion of your character.
People say too, this wild animal would marry that froward girl Dorothea.
Sidenote: The froward dealing of the erles of Hereford & Marshall.
A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright; 18:26 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.
He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.
For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.
All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
The froward woman knows chastity to be the first merit in a woman; and therefore, since no one can call her one ugly name, she calls all mankind all the rest.
If by observing such a piece as that of his taking a bowl of poison with so much magnanimity, a man, the next time he has a fit of the spleen, is less froward to his friend or his servants; thus far is some improvement.
Methinks he wakes out of his long sleep like a froward child, that wrangles and fights with all that comes near it.
Husht master, heres some good pastime toward; That wench is starke mad, or wonderfull froward Lucen.
See where she comes, and brings your froward Wiues As prisoners to her womanlie perswasion: Katerine, that Cap of yours becomes you not, Off with that bable, throw it vnderfoote Wid.
I thought I'd given my heart Long since to every man that mingles here; But grieve to find it trusted with such tempers That can't forgive my froward age its weakness.
At a new author's play see one but sit, Making his snarling froward face of wit, The merit he allows, and praise he grants, Comes like a tax from a poor wretch that wants.
So Belehwan the froward abode king in his father's room and his affairs prospered, what while the young Melik Shah lay in the underground dungeon four full-told years, till his charms faded and his favour changed.
Make them not froward by your froward carriage, and then say, we cannot love them.
Weakness naturally inclineth persons to be froward and hard to please; as we see in children, old people, and sick persons.
If one party only were froward and impatient, the stedfastness of the other might make it the more tolerable; but we are all sick, in some measure, of the same disease.
That there be a nature competently quiet and patient, and not intolerably froward and unpleasable.
A physician hath to do with a frowardand intemperate patient, who will please his appetite, or else if he be denied, his passion will increase his disease and kill him.
Be not discontented at them, repine not, nor grow peevish and froward to those about you.
A peevish, froward mind is like a sore and ulcerated member, that will be hurt if it be touched.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "froward" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
