And he lyfte vp his eyes & behelde his brother Ben Iamin his mothers sonne/ & sayde: is this youre yongest brother of whome ye sayde vnto me?
The thirde daye Abraham lyfte vp his eyes and sawe the place a farr of/ and sayde vnto his yong men: byde here with the asse.
Aryse and lyfte vp the lad/ and take hym in thy hande/ for I will make off him a greate people.
Then Iacob lyftevp his fete & w[~e]t toward the east countre.
And he lyfte vp his eyes & loked/ & beholde y^e camels were cominge.
And she satt doune out of syghte/ and lyfte vp hyr voyce and wepte.
And when he harde/ that I lyfte vp my voyce and cryed/ he left his garment with me and fled awaye and got him out.
And he lyfte vp his eyes and looked: ad lo/ thre men stode not farr from hym.
And he sayde: lyfte vp thyne eyes ad see/ how all the rames that leape vpon the shepe are straked/ spotted and partie: for I haue sene all that Laban doth vnto y^e.
Iacob lyfte vp his eyes and sawe hys brother Esau come/ & with him .
The sixthe pawn whiche standeth to fore the Alphyn on the lyfte syde is made in thys forme.
For hit is a man that hath the right hande stracched oute as for to calle men/ And holdeth in his lyfte hande a loof of breed and a cuppe of wyn/ And on his gurdell hangynge a boudell of keyes/ And this resembleth the Tauerners.
And in hislyfte hand a dolabre and he ought to haue on his gyrdell a trowell For by this is signefied all maner of werkemen/ as goldsmithes.
For he must sitte in a chayer clothed in purpure/ crowned on his heed in his ryght hand a ceptre and in thelyfte hande an apple of gold/.
Swa stent eall weoruld still on tille streamas ymbutan lagufloda gelac lyfte and tungla and sio scire scell scritheth ymbutan dogora gehwilce.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lyfte" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
