Wythe mie hondes I'lle dente the brieres Rounde his hallie corse to gre, Ouphante fairie, lyghte youre fyres, Heere mie boddie stylle schalle bee.
As Elynour bie the green lesselle was syttynge, As from the sones hete she harried, She sayde, as herr whytte hondes whyte hosen was knyttynge, 210 Whatte pleasure ytt ys to be married!
And now have the hethene men holden that lond in here hondes 40 zeere and more: but thei schulle not holde it longe, zif God wole.
And aftre mete, thei wypen here hondes upon here skyrtes: and thei eten not but ones a day.
For God wole not, that it be longe in thehondes of trytoures ne of synneres, be thei Cristene or othere.
Thanne I trowe wel, that within a lytyl tyme, our righte heritage before seyd scholde be reconsyled and put in the hondes of the right heires of Jesu Crist.
And thy love shalle honged be, His hondes bou«n»de him byhynde.
Tho was he caught, he mygħt not flee, he is taken His hondes thai bounden̄ faste 1412 And lad him forth to here Cite, and led away.
Saracens; Gye slowe the kinge of Babyloyne tho; The Babyloynes of his hors him drowe, but Guy, overpowered And with force him drowe there by the Babylonians, And bounde his hondes ful fast.
And sith ye will receyve money in your hertes and not with youre handes, it seemeth that ye holde more holinesse in your hondes than in your 230 hertes; and than be ye false to god.
Sampson, this noble almighty champioun, Withouten wepen save his hondes tweye, He slow and al to-rente the leoun, 3215 Toward his wedding walking by the weye.
And he anon, with-outen taryinge, Dide his message; and whan that he it tolde, Urban for Ioye his hondesgan up holde.
And of the same suyte he cladde Arcite; Upon his hondes hadde he gloves whyte; [82: T.
Myn hondesand my tonge goon so yerne, (70) That it is Ioye to see my bisinesse.
For though I hadde hem in myn hondes two, The savour mighte in me no depper go.
And whan thei han eten, thei wypen hire hondes upon hire skirtes: for thei use non naperye, ne towaylles, but zif it be before grete lordes: but the common peple hathe none.
And aftre that, thei kutten his mete, and putten it in his mouthe; for he touchethe no thing ne handlethe nought, but holdethe evere more his hondes before him, upon the table.
Ye[a] haue they not for all that translated ynto theyre hondes from your grace half your kyngdome thoroughly?
Here may your grace well perceyue that except ye suffer theyre ypocrisie to be disclosed all is like to runne ynto theire hondes and as long as it is couered so long shall it seme to euery man to be a greate ympiete not to gyue theim.
And who is abill to nombre this idell rauinous sort whiche (setting all laboure a side) haue begged so importunatly that they haue gotten ynto theyre hondes more then the therd part of all youre Realme.
So fowle / that it be lothsom on to see Wasshe with water / your hondes so cleene That in the towel shal no spotte be sene 266 THE ORIEL TEXT.
I fele now so sharpe a newe peyne, Sin that ther is no remedie in this cas, 1270 That bet were it I with myn hondes tweyne My-selven slow, than alwey thus to pleyne.
Fil Pandarus on knees, and up his eyen To hevene threw, and held his hondes hye, `Immortal god!
The godlihede or beautee which that kinde 1730 In any other lady hadde y-set Can not the mountaunce of a knot unbinde, A-boute his herte, of al Criseydes net.
For men knowen wel that coveitise Is of kene wille, And hath hondes and armes Of ful greet lengthe; And poverte nys but a petit thyng, Apereth noght to his navele; And lovely layk was it nevere Bitwene the longe and the shorte.
Poul, after his prechyng, Paniers he made, And wan with hise hondes That his wombe neded.
Fil Pandarus on knees, and up his yen To hevene threw, and held his hondes hye, 'Immortal god!
This Geant wot he mai noght longe Endure under so harde bondes, And thoghte he wolde out of hise hondes Be sleyhte in som manere ascape.
Tho fame with hire swifte wynges Aboute flyh and bar tidinges, And made it cowth in alle londes How that Horestes with hise hondes 2110 Climestre his oghne Moder slowh.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hondes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
