For this thing that I shal telle thee now ne shal nat seme lasse wonderful; but of the thinges that ben taken also it is necessarie;' as who seyth, it folweth of that which that is purposed biforn.
Eek thee ne oughte nat ben yvel apayed, Though I desyre with thee for to bere 650 Thyn hevy charge; it shal the lasse dere.
She nas not with the leste of hir stature, But alle hir limes so wel answeringe Weren to womanhode, that creature Was neuerlasse mannish in seminge.
Quod Pandarus, 'thou shalt the bettre pleyne, And hast the lasse nede to countrefete; For him men demen hoot that men seen swete.
And sin I shal no ferthere out of Troye Than I may ryde ayein on half a morwe, It oughte lasse causen us to sorwe.
For wel fele I alwey my love encresse, And hope is lasse and lasse alwey, Pandare!
Certes, unworthinesse of wikked men sholde be the lasse y-sene, yif they nere renomed of none honours.
Thow hast here maad an argument, for fyn, How that it sholde lasse peyne be Criseyde to for-goon, for she was myn, And live in ese and in felicitee.
The lasse wofulle of hem bothe niste Wher that he was, ne mighte o word out-bringe, As I seyde erst, for wo and for sobbinge.
But natheles the thing that I shal telle thee yit ne sheweth nat lasse to loken.
Fix and Lasse also had their turns; it was true they had done nothing wrong, but they might.
The more vertu, the lasse is the pryde; Vertu so digne is, and so noble in kynde That vyce and she wol not in-fere abyde.
Right so it is in propertee of my servauntes, that they ben more affiched in steringe of litel thinge in his desyr than of mokel other mater lasse in his conscience.
Borne to indure what fortune can containe, Ah lasse the deed is too apparant now: But oh mine eyes were you as bent to hide, As my poore heart is forward to forgiue.
Frolicke young king, the Lasse shall bee your owne, Ile make her blyth and wanton by my wit.
Thus finde I greefe of that whereon I ioy, And doubt, in greatest hope, and death in weale, Ah lasse what hell may be compared with mine, Since in extreames my comforts do consist?
But I have the lasse marvaylle, be cause that thei ben the moste sotyle men in alle sciences and in alle craftes, that ben in the world.
And of that moneye, is som of gretter prys, and som of lasse prys, aftre the dyversitee of his statutes.
And after hem, the marchauntis and the apotecaries countrefeten it eftsones, and that it is lasse worthe, and a gret del worse.
And it schalle be don sunnere, and with lasse cost, than and a man made it in his owne hous.
Her feature all as fresh aboue, As is the grasse that grows by Doue, as lyth as lasse of Kent: Her skin as soft as Lemster wooll, As white as snow on peakish hull, or Swanne that swims in Trent.
Thou dearer to me than money; I'le lose my little lambe, And gladly give the damme, To be lov'd by a lasse so bonny.
When Willy once he stayed, To fetch home a lamb that straied, Under a hill-side, A bonny lasse he spide, Of whom he was well apaied.
The skillful darning which his father had taught him was not put into practice here; the holes were simply cobbled together, so that Father Lasse would have sunk into the earth for shame.
Lasse hovered about him, brushing him here and there with his sleeve, and was even more nervous than the boy.
Lasse and Pelle pumped water to rinse them in, and cleaned out the big salt-barrels that the men rolled up from the cellar; and two of the elder women were entrusted with the task of mixing.
Down in their room, Lasse sat watching Pelle, who lay talking and laughing in delirium, so that his father hardly knew whether to laugh or to cry.
At a quarter-past the hour they went toward the basement, with Karl Johan at their head, and Lasse and Pelle also turned out and hurried to the servants' room, with every sign of a good appetite.
Now and again, too, he got a little help from Lasse, but Lasse found it more and more difficult to spare anything.
Lasse was looking at Anna's child, which lay side by side with Kalle's thirteenth.
The strange thing about this calf was that the first day it was let out, it would not stir, and at last the boy left it behind for Lasse to take in again.
And wheither be lighter to breke, And lasse boost maketh, A beggeris bagge Than an yren bounde cofre?
I'l fetch my doughter That hath no lightnes in her, currant too As any lasse i'th cittye.
The pesent with his homespoon lasse As many merry howers may passe As coortiers with there sattin guerles, Though ritchly dect in gould and pearles; And, though but pleyne, to purpose wooe, Nay ofttymes with lesse danger too.
And of Criseyde thou hast seyd as thee liste, That maketh men to wommen lasse triste, That ben as trewe as ever was any steel.
For trust wel, yif so be that the planete be on the right syde of the meridional lyne, so that his seconde altitude be lasse than his firste altitude 10 was, thanne is the planete directe.
And yif the altitude of the planete be lasse than the degree of the sonne, thanne is the planete south fro the wey of the sonne swich a quantite of latitude as sheweth by thyn almikanteras.
Father and mother had forbidden this, but Little Lasse forgot.
Some of the shells got broken, some remained whole, and when all were ready Lasse had twelve boats.
When the dreams had sung their song they skipped away, and Nukku Matti carried Lasse back to the boat.
He came to Little Lasse and said, 'Would you like to sail round the world?
Well,' he said, 'where has Little Lasse been so long?
Little Lasse crept into the pea bed where the pea stalks rose high above his cap, and he picked seventeen large shells, the longest and straightest he could find.
Little Lasse thought, perhaps, that no one saw him; but that was foolish, for God sees everywhere.
Fylax was barking on the steps, and when he saw Little Lasse he wagged his tail.
Little Lasse There was once a little boy whose name was Lars, and because he was so little he was called Little Lasse; he was a brave little man, for he sailed round the world in a pea-shell boat.
And now Little Lasse saw that the kitchen door was open, and from within there was heard a low, pleasant frizzling, like that which is heard when one whisks yellow batter with a wooden ladle into a hot frying-pan.
But Little Lasse remained in Europe, and threw small stones out into the great sea.
Little Lasse put all the twelve into the water, and they floated as splendidly and as proudly as any great ships over the waves of the ocean.
But another time Little Lasse must ask leave to go and look for boats in the pea bed.
Each merit is rewarded by God, and consequently the benefit of it cannot be applicable to any one who pays: "As Peter held his pees in grauntinge of siche thingis, so shulden thei holden ther pees, sith thei ben lasse worth than Petir.
The see geth him al aboute · he stond as in an yle, Of fon hii dorre the lasse doute · bote hit be thorgh gyle .
Then open your hand and say, loe, If you can hold a pretty Lasse no faster, when you have her, I will not give a pin for your skill.
The beautiful motet, Ich lasse dich nicht, has long been known to be by one of Bach's uncles (Johann Christoph).
But all who are hanging on the gallows are not dead, and this time Lasse was the greater fool of the two.
Everything was attended to with alarming rapidity, and soon all was exactly as it had been before Lasse had decamped.
Then Lasse came to the duke one day, and though he did not look much better than before, he was more civil and did not venture to grin and carry on.
When the duke reached home, Lassehad a lively time of it, for he was given any number of commissions.
Yet he had time enough to reflect about his mistake in not contenting himself with an inch instead of reaching out at once for an ell; and that he had so foolishly given back the scrap of paper to Lasse annoyed him most of all.
Lasse thanked him, and said all the duke need do, would be to lay the paper on the chair beside his bed, when he went to sleep, and that he would fetch it during the night.
The princess herself was not much better off, though she had kept her clothes; for they had been given her by her father, and Lasse had no power over them.
But adversity teaches one to be wise, so people say, and the duke now began to attend to most things himself, and to see to it that Lasse did not have to wear out so many pairs of shoes.
Little Lasse laughed, and every time he laughed his sister screeched with delight in her cradle, as though she understood it all.
To drive Young Lasse out of his thoughts--that would be the hardest thing of all; he must see if he could not get him away from Ellen in a friendly manner.
Lasse and Pelle carried the last things over to the new home, and put everything tidy; then they dressed themselves in their best and set out for the Stoples' home.
When Young Lasse looked through the tunnel-entry into the darkness of the "Ark" he did not want to go in.
And now you be off, before the old woman comes back," said Lasse anxiously.
When Lasse had finished his song the people clapped and threw down coins wrapped in paper, and he went round picking them up.
Marie read out the different notices, and Lasse made his comments on every one, and when the bystanders laughed Lasse gazed at them uncomprehendingly, then laughed with them, and nodded his head merrily.
Lasse was always gentle and amiable, and appeared contented, but there was a curious veil over his eyes, as though some disappointment were gnawing at his heart.
Lasse had not yet properly wished Pelle happiness; he had waited until they should be alone.
During my whole childhood you stood behind everything, protecting me; if anything happened to me I always used to think; 'Father Lasse will soon set that right!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lasse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
