Fynden out Do-best, Which shal save mannes soule; Thus seith Piers the Plowman.
It is freletee of flesshe, Ye fynden it in bokes, And a cours of kynde Wherof we comen alle.
And alle kynne crafty-men, That konne lyven in truthe, I shal fyndenhem fode, That feithfulliche libbeth.
And thanne freres in hir fraytour Shul fynden a keye Of Costantyns cofres, In which is the catel That Gregories god-children Han yvele despended.
Sikerli I can nought fynden Who hem first founded; But the foles foundeden hemselfe Freres of the Pye, 130 And maken hem mendynans, And marre the puple.
Then havest thow londes to lyve by,' Quath Reson, 'other lynage ryche That fynden the thy fode?
For I can nought my Crede, I care wel harde; For I can fynden no man That fulli byleveth, To techen me the heyghe weie, And therfore I wepe.
And in the lond of Macedoyne men fynden dyamaundes also.
This watre rennethe, flowynge and ebbynge, be a syde of the mountayne: and in that ryver men fynden precious stones and perles, gret plentee.
And the first day next aftre, men fynden in the ashes a worm; and the secunde day next aftre, men fynden a brid quyk and perfyt; and the thridde day next aftre, he fleethe his wey.
In that flomme men fynden eles of 30 fote long and more.
And so fynden thei in here scriptures and in here cronycles.
And alle be it that menfynden gode dyamandes in Ynde, zit natheles men fynden hem more comounly upon the roches in the see, and upon hilles where the myne of gold is.
Fro Cathay go men toward the est, be many iourneyes: and than men fynden a gode cytee, betwene theise othere, that men clepen Sugarmago.
And other dyamandes also men fynden in the ile of Cipre, that ben zit more tendre; and hem men may wel pollische.
In that ryvere men fynden many precyouse stones, and meche also of lignum aloes: and it is a manere of wode, that comethe out of Paradys terrestre, the whiche is good for manye dyverse medicynes: and it is righte dereworthe.
Fro that abbeye men gon up the mountayne of Moyses, be many degrees: and there men fynden first a Chirche of oure Lady, where that sche mette the monkes, whan thei fledden awey for the vermyn aboveseyd.
And aftre that, thei passen an arm of the see, and thanne thei gon to another cytee that is clept Golbache: and there thei fynden marchandises, and of popengayes, as gret plentee as men fynden here of gees.
And alle be it that it have no watre, zit men fynden there in and on the bankes, fulle gode fissche of other maner of kynde and schappe, thanne men fynden in ony other see; and thei ben of right goode tast, and delycious to mannes mete.
And thanne thei schullen dyggen and mynen so strongly, tille that thei fynden the zates, that Kyng Alisandre leet make of grete stones and passynge huge, wel symented and made stronge for the maystrie.
And zif that zee wil wyte, how that thei schulle fynden hire Weye, aftre that I have herd seye, I schalle telle zou.
And whan this man the pot hath by the stele, 50 And fully is in his possessioun, With that woman he kepeth not to dele, After if he may fynden in the toun Any woman, his blinde affeccioun On to bestowe; evel mote he preve!
For as they fynden cause in the matere Upon the poynt, what afterward betyde, 55 The lawe of right shal nat be layd a-syde.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fynden" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
