Giue me your hand: much ioy & fauour to you; You are the Kings now Gard.
In all our rigours and afflicting tortures We cannot say that we the men subdu'd, Because their ioy was louder than our conquest.
What power is that can fortifie a man To ioy in death, since all we can expect Is but fruition of the ioyes of life?
Tis ioy above my ioy: oh, had you scene What these eyes saw, you would not then Disswade me from it; nor will I leave that power By whom I finde such infinite contentments.
Also the cleargie met him with procession, and such ioy appeared in the countenances of the people, vttering the same also with words, as the like not lightlie béene séene.
But the obteining of possession of Chierburg brought not so much ioy to the English nation, as the mishap that happened at the going foorth of the said earles did cause lamentation and heauinesse.
As for the duke, he was receiued with all the ioy and pompe that might be of the Londoners, and was lodged in the bishops palace, by Paules church.
Rom: But that a ioy, past ioycryes out on me, It were a griefe so breefe to part with thee.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ioy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
