Give me a little leave then ere mygreife Surround my reason.
Deere madam, Greife overwhelmes me for you, that your guilt Has damp'd the eyes of mercy and undone All intercession.
I shall grow childish, too; my passions strive For my dead love to keepe my greife alive.
Good sir, desist The agravation of your sad report; [Weepe Ive to much greife already.
Alas, beleive her not; greife for her sonne Has made her franticke.
It was but now The sullen heauen had vail'd its mournfull brow With a black maske: the clouds with child by Greife Traueld th' Olympian plaines to find releife.
Did euer greife and joy in one poore heart Soe soone change part?
Make hast, and come, or e're my greife and I Make hast, and dy.
I am with greifesoe broken and soe torne, As I all day in heart and habit mourne.
When I was silent I consum'd away, And pyninge greife did waste mee day by day; Thy hand on mee was heauy still, whereby My moisture grewe like draught in Summer drie.
Thy face To see my desolate and wither'd case; Enlarged is my greife and heauines, But Lord, enlarge Thou mee from my distresse!
Because it was Sunday I beheld all the inhabitants merry and joviall below, while I was ready to faint for hunger and greife above.
VVhich when I well considered My greife for outward crosses ceast, Being not much discouraged Although afflictions still encreast, Knowing right well that Tribulacion No token is of Reprobacion.
Excessive worldy Greife the Soule devouers And spoyles the activnesse of all the Powers, Through indisposing them to exercise What should demonstrate their abilities, By practicall improvment of the same Unto the Glory of the givers name.
All this while Morayzel could gett no newes of his daughter, which was no small greife to him.
That our heartes wth the heartes of the country in generall are surrounded wth feare and greife for the removall of Collonell Massey from us, whose endeavors amongst us God hath soe wonderfullie prospered.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "greife" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
