For lakke of her, the her eldest daughters, and forlakke of them the L Marget to be gouuernres after as is aforsaid, til sume heire masle be borne, and then the mother of that child to be gouuernres.
For lakke of such issu, To th’eires masles of the L Janes daughters.
For no fors is of lakke of thy nature; 615 Go, lewed be thou, whyl the world may dure!
Certes,' quod she, 'and he that hath lakke or nede of aught nis nat in every wey suffisaunt to himself?
And thou,' quod she, 'in al the plentee of thy richesses haddest thilke lakke of suffisaunse?
If that your yën can nat seen aright, Loke that your minde lakke nought his sight.
And with this speche the cook wex wrooth and wraw, And on the maunciple he gan nodde faste For lakke of speche, and doun the hors him caste, Wher as he lay, til that men up him took; This was a fayr chivachee of a cook!
And if ye lakke our predicacioun, Than gooth the world al to destruccioun.
And to the tree she gooth ful hastily, And on this faucon loketh pitously, 440 And heeld hir lappe abrood, for wel she wiste The faucon moste fallen fro the twiste, When that it swowned next, for lakkeof blood.
For-thi lakkethow nevere logik, Lawe ne hise custumes; 7640 Ne countreplede clerkes, I counseille thee for evere.
For-thi lakkeno lif oother, Though he moore Latyn knowe; Ne under-nyme noght foule; For is noon withoute defaute.
No thyng that is pryve, Publice thow it nevere; Neither for love preise it noght, Ne lakke it for envye.
Spera-in-Deo speketh of preestes That have no spendyng silver, That if thei travaille truweliche And truste in God almyghty, Hem sholde lakke no liflode, Neyther lynnen ne wollen.
Gif the lakke liiflode, Lene the ich wille Swich good as God hath sent; Go we, leeve brother.
It is the Anglo-Saxon poetic phrase, sweorda ge-lac, the play of swords lakke (A.
Wherffor he thynketh that he sholde have as grete a lakke off yow as off any one man in that contre, willyng me to wryght on to yowe, and to late yow weete off hys comynge.
I have, suche as weer lykly; ffor I lakke off my retynwe, that I have neer so many.
It is not pouerte that kepith Ffrenchmen ffro rysinge, but it is cowardisse andlakke off hartes and corage, wich no Ffrenchman hath like vnto a Englysh man.
Wherfore it is not pouerte, but it is lakke off harte and cowardisse, that kepith the Ffrenchmen ffro rysynge.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lakke" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
