And the Scottes comen into Engelond and deden muche harme, and distroyden the contreye tyl they comen to the park of Stanhope in Wyrdale, where they helden them in a busshement in the parke.
I wolde That no cardynal coome Among the comune peple; But in hir holynesse Helden hem stille At Avynone among the Jewes,-- Cum sancto sanctus eris, etc.
Ne loutede faire; That folk helden me a fool, And in that folie I raved.
And there was Conscience conestable Cristene to save, And bisegede soothly With sevene grete geauntz {438} That with Antechrist helden Harde ayein Conscience.
And men seye in theise contrees, that philosophres som tyme wenten upon theise hilles, and helden to here nose a spounge moysted with watre, for to have eyr; for the eyr above was so drye.
And there besyde, was the synagoge, where the bysshoppes of Jewes and the pharyses camen to gidere, and helden here conseille.
Alle helden hem un-hardy, And hir counseil feble; And leten hire labour lost And al hire longe studie.
Lyveris to-forn us Useden to marke For selkouthes that thei seighen, Hir sones for to teche; And helden it an heigh science Hir wittes to knowe.
And mynstrales and messagers Mette with hym ones, And helden hym an half-yeer And ellevene dayes.
It is this entirely one-sided conception of the antique which is gradually evolved from that expressed in Götter, Heldenund Wieland, and which finally leads Goethe to write Homeric poems like Achilleïs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "helden" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
