And ich a faucoun on hond bere, And riden on haukin bi o riuere.
More light it is to kepe than to make; But that we founden mad to-fore the hond We kepe nat, but lete it lightly slake; 220 The pees of Crist hath al to-broke his bond.
Upon his hond he bar for his deduyt[106] hand, delight An egle tame, as eny lylie whyt.
The devil himself must ha' hod a hondun the brewun' o' ut, ut was thot fearsome.
The two men was lashed tull the wheel, but he would be ready tull hond un the case they was kult.
But natheles, fortune it nought ne wolde, Of others hond that either deyen sholde.
Why good feath I think so too; for by all I can see, we are like to make no great hond on't.
Is there ony genelmen there as can len' a hond here?
Give us thee hond, mun; I'm darned but I must shak thee by the hond for thot.
Lo, thus he seide, and with that word He threw tofore hem on the bord The gold out of his hond anon, And seide hem that he wolde non: So that he kepte his liberte To do justice and equite, Withoute lucre of such richesse.
With that the king com forth anon, And sih the Flees, hou that it schon; And whan Jason cam to the lond, The king himselve tok his hond And kist him, and gret joie him made.
He goth to loke in what astat The Schip was come, and there he fond Forth with a child upon hire hond This lady, wher sche was al one.
Fulofte also be lyhte of day Yit wole he stele and make assay; Under the cote his hond he put, Til he the mannes Purs have cut, 6520 And rifleth that he fint therinne.
But by the croys which that seint Eleyne fond, I wolde I hadde thy coillons in myn hond In stede of relikes or of seintuarie; Lat cutte hem of, I wol thee helpe hem carie; Thay shul be shryned in an hogges tord.
Eek on his heed a croune of laurer grene, 2875 And in his hond a swerd ful bright and kene.
And in his sleve (as ye biforn-hond Herde me telle) he hadde a silver teyne.
He that his hond wol putte in this miteyn, He shal have multiplying of his greyn, Whan he hath sowen, be it whete or otes, 375 So that he offre pens, or elles grotes.
His slepy yerde in hond he bar uprighte; An hat he werede up-on his heres brighte.
For as the lomb toward his deeth is broght, So stant this innocent bifore the king; (520) This false knight that hath this tresoun wroght Berth hir on hond that she hath doon this thing.
He yaf me al the brydel in myn hond To han the governance of hous and lond, And of his tonge and of his hond also, 815 And made him brenne his book anon right tho.
And somtyme grucching sourdeth of Envye; whan men discovereth a mannes harm that was privee, or bereth him on hond thing that is fals.
This lady brought in hir right hond 3705 Of brenning fyr a blasing brond; Wherof the flawme and hote fyr Hath many a lady in desyr Of love brought, and sore het, And in hir servise hir hertes set.
With that my hond in his he took anoon, Of which I comfort caughte, and wente in faste; 170 But lord!
I fond him cruel in his rage, 3400 And in his hond a gret burdoun.
In that partie is a welle, that in the day it is so cold, that no man may drynke there offe; and in the nyght it so hoot, that no man may suffre his hond there in.
Thei ben grete folk and wel fyghtynge; and thei han a gret targe, that coverethe alle the body, and a spere in here hond to fighte with.
And be that hond thei maken alle here juggementes, in the contree, whoso hathe righte or wrong.
And aftre that, he byddethe hem to don here hond a wey; and thei don so.
And men wolden many tymes put the appulle into the ymages hond azen, but it wil not holde it.
And the tother hond he lifteth up azenst the est, in tokene to manace the mysdoeres.
Thou shalt be here and defend the lond From that fals trayto{r}s hond And take the ordre of a knyght.
I yeve the here oute of my hond 1385 To thy doughter aAEsAEs my lond, Yf that I end th{o}re.
A knave child there he ffond, There was closud in his hond 1955 A gold ryng riche and good.
The quene was curtes of that lond And toke the lady be the hond And said: aEuro~Welcom, my lady gent!
XXVI But Robyn toke out a two-hond sworde, That hangit down be his kne; Ther as the Schereff and his men stode thyckust, Thethurwarde wolde he.
He bears thee that much grudge that if he could lay his hond on thee, while th' heat's on him, he'd kill thee or dee.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hond" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
