So as Anchises had, apon this wys, Rehersit, as said is, all thingis at devys, Sibilla and his son togidder at schort 5 He leit depart furth at the evor port.
Be this was said, a grondyn dart leit he glide, And persit the bos hill at the braid syde; Furth at the ilke port wyndis brade in a rout, And with a quhirl blew all the erth about.
Al wery of our vayage thidder we steir, And come onon afor the litil town, 5 And of our forschip ankyrris leit we down: Endlang the costis syde our navy raid.
And as he thus was trublit in entent, Mesapus, that on cace was neirhand by, And in hys left neif haldis all reddy 10 Twa sowpill castyng speris hedit with steill, Of quham that ane full sovirly and weill Towart Ene addressit leit he glyde.
Than James leit dryfe at Jhone with boith his fistis.
He rais and his leysche till him drew he, And leit his houndis gang all fre.
So suddanly on thame schot thai, 410 That thai war sa abaysit all, That thai leit all thair wapnys fall, And mercy pitwysly can cry.
Quhen the King saw he wald nocht let, Bot ay cum on fenyheand falset, He tasit the vyre and leit it fle, And hit the fader in the e, 624 Till it rycht in the harnys ran; And he backward fell doun rycht than.
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.
Bot Northir men wald no-thing swa, That dred thar friendis for till tyne, And mast part of thar gudis syne Throu Scottis mennys cruelte; Thai wald he leit the sege be 850 And raid for till reskew the land.
The Scottis men saw thair cummyng, 565 And had of thame sic abasyng, That thai all sammyn raid thame fra, And the land letles leit thame ta.
Nor learnt they the reason till later on, no time being then allowed them to think of it; for scarce had the rafts emerged from the narrow leit when the birds, sighting them, rose up into the air, uttering shrill cries of alarm.
After passing the point where the leit terminated, they still found no flow; instead, the water stagnant as in a tan-pit.
It was out of his first conviction that the musical embodiment of a mood having once been found should not be changed that the leit motif system grew.
Crawfurd leit draw the saill a litill we, 140 The capdane sone lap in, and wald nocht stynt.
The buschement than, as weryouris wyss and wicht, Leit thaim allayne, and to the houss past rycht.
The blessit men, that was off Scotland borne, Fwnde at his faith Wallace gert thaim be sworn; 870 Restorit thaim to thar landis, but less: He leit sla nayne that wald cum till his pes.
Wallace assayd at all placis about, Leit as he wald at ony place brek out; Quhill Butleris men sum part fra him can ga To helpe the lawe, quhen thai saw it was sa.
The wedowis son, fra thai had passit dout, A serwand send, and leit the women out, To pass fra Arth quhar at thaim likit best.
Than kest he thus, how he suld mend that myss; And so he dyd, in Ingland at his will Na Scottis man he leit with Bruce bid still; Bot quhar he past held him in subiectioun 735 Off Inglissmen, held him in gret bandoun.
The woman than, quhilk was full will off wayne, The perell saw, with fellone noyis and dyne, Gat wp the yett, and leit thaim entir in.
The fyrst leit draw at Wallace with his sith; Deliuer he was, and heich our lappyt swyth, And awkwart straik that churl apon the hed; Derffly on ground he has him left for ded.
On bak he drew, and leit his curage slaik: The worthi Scottis prewyt weill for Scotlandis saik.
Na speris thai had, bot suerdys off gud steyll; Thar with in stour thai leit thair enemyss feill, How thai full oft had prewyt beyn in press; Off Inglissmen thai maid feill to decess.
The captenys wiff, wemen, and childer thre, Pass quhar thai wald, for Wallas leit thaim be.
The leit motif of all Beardsley's art was to epater les bourgeois, to horrify the ordinary stolid Philistine, and he would hesitate at nothing, however outre, to attain this end.
In the majority of his poems, the beauties of nature, flowers, the song of birds and the music of running water are introduced either incidentally or as the leit motif.
The leit motif and other fads credited to the Bayreuth master, though not wholly his, are conspicuous by their absence.
The leit motiv system was not so extensively used by Wagner in his earlier works as in his later ones, when the system had become fully developed and he had obtained a complete mastery of its difficult musical technic.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
