Your Maiestie hath beene this fort-night ill, And these vnseason'd howres perforce must adde Vnto your Sicknesse King.
Thou hast stolne that, which after some few howres Were thine, without offence: and at my death Thou hast seal'd vp my expectation.
I pray you beare witnesse, that me haue stay, sixe or seuen, two tree howres for him, and hee is nocome Shal.
Eightie odde yeeres of sorrow haue I seene, And each howres ioy wrackt with a weeke of teene Qu.
If thou beest Prospero Giue vs particulars of thy preseruation, How thou hast met vs heere, whom three howres since Were wrackt vpon this shore?
And Louers absent howres More tedious then the Diall, eight score times?
But I can tell you one thing my Lord, and which I heare from common rumours, now Lord Timons happie howres are done and past, and his estate shrinkes from him Lucius.
Beleeue me this may be: he promis'd to meete me two howres since, and he was euer precise in promise keeping 2.
At Southam I did leaue him with his forces, And doe expect him here some two howres hence War.
The two first stanzas may be found accompanied with musical notes in "An howres recreation in musicke, &c.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "howres" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
