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Example sentences for "lightnesse"

Lexicographically close words:
lightless; lightlie; lightly; lightned; lightness; lightning; lightnings; lights; lightship; lightships
  1. Eke whan that he, by lightnesse or folie, misseyeth or scorneth his neighebore.

  2. Somtyme, to shewe his lightnesse and maistrye, He pleyeth Herodes on a scaffold hye.

  3. Oftentimes these men, through their too muche lightnesse of beléefe, fall into great daungers.

  4. But sith there is no enemy in the field, and that but simple suspicion doth assayle me, why breake I not the same, and deface the entier remembraunce of the lightnesse of my brayne?

  5. Well, he may sleep in Security, for he hath the horne of Abundance: and the lightnesse of his Wife shines through it, and yet cannot he see, though he haue his owne Lanthorne to light him.

  6. For wher-for elles bereth lightnesse the flaumbes up, and the weighte presseth the erthe a-doun, but for as moche as thilke places and thilke 100 moevinges ben covenable to everich of hem?

  7. Have now heer and understonde, in the lightnesse of swich pryde and veine glorie, how a man scornede festivaly and merily 85 swich vanitee.

  8. And other beestes, by the wandringe lightnesse of hir winges, beten the windes, and over-swimmen the spaces of 5 the longe eyr by moist fleeinge.


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