Here folwen the Wordes of the Worthy Hoost to the Frankeleyn; Pt.
In all this tyme Richard of Clare, That wes the Kyngis luf-tenand, 255 Of all of the barnage of Irland A gret hoost he assemblit had.
Thus, as I said, Richard of Clare And his gret hoost rebutit war.
In a wode thai enbuschit wer: The Scottis hoost raid by thame nere; For thai na schawing of thame maid.
That gret hoost roydly ruschit wes; 305 Bot Schir Edward leit no man chas; Bot with presoners, that thai had tane, Thai till the wod agane ar gane, Quhar that thair harnes levit wer.
Rycht to thar hoost thai can thame chass, 445 And syne agane thair wayis tais.
The Skirmish at Melrose] He thoucht till wirk apon this wis; And Inglis men with gret mastris 260 Com with thar hoost in Lowdiane, And soyne till Edinburgh ar gane, And thair abaid thai dayis thre.
Bot thai war met with all, and tane, And brocht richt till the hoost agane.
And with hishoost all still he lay At Culros, for he walde assay Till ger his fais throu fasting 255 Be feblist, and throu lang walking; And fra he feblist had thair mycht Assemmyll he wald with thame till ficht.
TRuely this is myne opinion / that he whiche shall be a gouernour of an hoost / ought to haue these foure property- es in hym.
And zif it befalle, that ony of the hoost dye, anon thei putten another in his place; so that the nombre schal evere more ben hool.
And another hoost gothe in the right syde of the emperour, nygh half a journeye fro him.
And whan this emperour wille ryde from o contree to another, he ordeynethe 4 hostes of his folk; of the whiche, the firste hoost gothe before him, a dayes iourneye.
And no man dar not come nyghe the chariot by a bowe draught, but tho lordes only, that ben about him: and alle the hoost cometh fayrely aftre him, in gret multitude.
For that hoost schalle ben logged the nyght, where the emperour schalle lygge upon the morwe.
And every hoost hathe his iourneyes ordeyned in certeyn places, where thei schulle be logged at nyght; and there thei schulle have alle, that hem nedethe.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hoost" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
