Contemporaries, friend and foe, ascribe the actual translation to him.
Lene me a mark,' quod he, 'but dayes three, And at my day I wol it quyten thee.
Yet were me lever that I were unborn Than me were doon a sclaundre or vileinye; And if myn housbond eek it mighte espye, I nere but lost, and therfore I yow preye 1375 Lene me this somme, or elles moot I deye.
Daun Iohn, I seye, lene me thise hundred frankes; Pardee, I wol nat faille yow my thankes, If that yow list to doon that I yow praye.
Ful riche he was astored prively, His lord wel coude he plesen subtilly, 610 To yeve and lene him of his owne good, And have a thank, and yet a cote and hood.
His sleep, his mete, his drink is him biraft, That lene he wex, and drye as is a shaft.
The speces of misericorde been, as for to leneand for to yeve and to foryeven and relesse, and for to han pitee in herte, and compassioun of the meschief of his evene-cristene, and eek to chastyse there as nede is.
But there was ones a frere that saide to her that it was not wel done that the dogges were fedde and made so fatte, and the pore pepill so lene and famished for hunger.
Any one of the lene consonants, as p, k, or i (or Gr.
Her heped vertu hath swich excellence That al to lene is mannes facultee To declare it, and therfor in suspence Her due preysing put mot nedes be.
Wherfore I pray to the holy gost, he lene of his oyntmentes, mennes wittes to clere; and, for goddes love, no man wonder why or how this question come to my mynde.
She stretched forth her arms--her mantle she flung to the wind, And swam o'er Loch Lene her outlawed lover to find.
LENE (comes in at the right with the coffee service, places the tray containing the coffee-pot, cream-pitcher and cake on the table between the cups.
LENE and FRITZ have completed their work and go out at the right.
Yes, Auntie, please tell Lene to go around and tell my wife we have callers.
LENE (opens the door at the right and stands in the door).
LENE and FRITZ, in livery, move to and fro, serving.
LENE casts a curious glance at the two, then at PAUL, and goes out at the right.
LENE and FRITZ clear the table and carry out the dishes.
AUNT CLARA (comes forward in the direction of the passage, inspects the whole arrangement and speaks to LENE who is occupied in the background, where she cannot be seen).
LENE (has come forward with the dishes, shrinks so that the tray and dishes clatter).
It would rather, like fathers and horses, add the lene sibilant.
Lene at this recognises, of course, that here is that reprobate thing, a lover, and remembers her first duty as a duenna, to keep off all such from her young charge.
Conspicuous among them is David, so forgetful for the moment of Lene and himself as to imprint a glowing kiss on his partner's cheek.
Lene sees in the very loneliness of the place a reason the more for departing with all speed,--but Fate again helps Walther.
But they stabbed Lene Hebers as she lay in childbed, speared the child, and flung it over Claus Peer's hedge among the nettles, where it was yet lying when they came away.
Magh Lene was near Durrow, and not far from Clonmacnoise; but Durrow was Columbian, and its abbot remained away.
On the other hand the religious houses of the south and south-eastern parts of Ireland, in obedience to the directions of Pope Honorious, convoked a Synod at Magh Lene in King's County to discuss this most important question.
Bot natheles it me forthenketh; For wel I wot that wol noght be, For every day the betre I se 4460 That hou so evere I yive or lene Mi love in place ther I mene, For oght that evere I axe or crave, I can nothing ayeinward have.
Bot yit for that I wol noght lete, What so befalle of mi beyete, That I ne schal hire yive and lene Mi love and al mi thoght so clene, That toward me schal noght beleve.
Lene was betrothed in 1538 to the worthy treasurer of the University of Wittenberg, Ambrosius Berndt, and Luther gave the wedding.
At this time Luther had two orphan nieces living with him, Lene and Else Kaufmann of Mansfeld, sisters of Cyriac, whom we found with him at Coburg, and also a young relative, of whom we know nothing further than that her name was Anna.
From Wittenberg there came to nurse him a niece, who lived in his house: probably Lene Kaufmann, the daughter of his sister.
Gif the lakke liiflode, Lene the ich wille Swich good as God hath sent; Go we, leeve brother.
Men beth merciable To mendinauntz and to poore, And wollen lene ther thei leve 9930 Lelly to ben paied.
Now the Welsh grammarians deal with the changes from sharp to flat, and from lene to aspirate, alike; since, in respect to the grammar of their language, they are enabled to state that they take place under the same circumstances.
Such the changes from sharp to flat, and from lene to aspirate.
This change in Irish extends only to the change from lene to aspirate.
Little Lene took out of her pocket A box of cigarettes, Weeping took one Out and smoked.
Lene Levi stopped On a bridge, catching her breath, And she lifted her blurred blue Drunken glances in the wide Sweet darkness above The street lamps and the houses.
Smoke on the Field Lene Levi went out in the evening, Mincing, her skirt bunched up, Through the long, empty streets Of a suburb.
Falling in the River Drunk, Lene Levi walked In the neighboring streets nightly Back and forth, screaming, "auto.
Seven horny little men chased Lene Levi for her body, Thinking about what it costs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lene" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
