And that done he sent for all the thryfty commoners within the sayd cytie, and theym exortyd in lyke maner, whiche for the more partye granted to hym the wages of halfe a man for a yere, the whiche amounted to iiijli.
Who taketh a wyfe receyveth a great charge, In whiche he is full lyketo have a fall: With tempest tossed, as is a besy barge; There he was fre he maketh hymselfe thrall.
And so the furste sheet in lyke wyse, and then to trusse in both sheete and fustyan rownde about the bedde of downe.
If I go to bowles or shuffel bord, I shall lyke of your company, if the place be not made up with strangers.
They that have a lyttle chinne, are much to be avoyded and taken heede of, for besydes all vices with the whyche they are fylled they are full of impietye and wyckednes and are spyes, lyke unto serpents.
And the M{rs} of the Anathomye y{t} be about the bodye to have lyke aprons and sleves every daye bothe white and cleane.
Thy people Israel also, in their wealth dyd evermore runne astray, abusinge thy manifold mercies; lyke as all fleshe contynually rageth when it hath gotten libertie and external prosperitie.
O Lord God Almightie, and Father moste mcrcifull, there is none lyke thee in heaven nor in earthe, which workest all thinges for the glorie of thy name and the comfort of thyne elect.
Of towne and towre it beris [th]e belle; In erthe es none lyke it vn-till.
I hes sett down the cowrse, it vill be ane very esy done twrne, and nocht far by that forme, vith the lyke stratagem, qhairof ve had conference in Cap.
Stormes, Tempestes, and Spoutes: and such lyke Meteorologicall effectes, daungerous on Sea.
In lyke sorte, the necessary, wonderfull and Secret doctrine of Proportion, and proportionalytie hath purchased vnto it selfe a peculier maner of handlyng and workyng: and so may seme an other forme of Arithmetike.
And Pandarus, to quike alwey the fyr, Was evere y-lyke prest and diligent; 485 To ese his frend was set al his desyr.
The readers of Strype and Fox will see that the threats which both contain were no idle ones, and that men were indeed "corrected and punisshed for theyr contempte and disobedience, to the terrible example of other lyke trangressours.
Eyn hee hadde lyke to a hawke, Soothe I saye, so sharpe was hee That hee e'en mought see you talke Whenne you talkynge did not bee.
Some make them lyke men, whereof the kynge is the highest, and the queene (which some name amasone or ladye) is the next, bothe two crowned.
The bishoppes some name alphins, some fooles, and some princes, lyke as also they are next unto the kynge and queene, other some cal them archers, and they are fashioned accordinge to the wyll of the workeman.
But if it lyke to this companye, I wol yow of a somnour telle a game.
Sir, ye ne be nat alwey in lyke disposicioun; / for certes, som thing that somtyme semeth to yow that it is good for to do, another tyme it semeth to yow the contrarie.
Y-lyke wel, whan they han al y-do; 850 This is to seyn, they faylen bothe two.
For the worke of the philosophers stoone, following the worke of nature, hathe lyke color in the same degree.
Whiche scutes in lyke manner, in the tyme of kinge Henry the sixte were of the same valewe, as apperethe in Fortescues commentaries of the lawes of Englande.
I speake not this," says he, "in disprayse of the faukons, but of them which keepeth them lyke cockneyes.
I say, thou madde marche hare, I wondre how ye dare Open your ianglyng iawes, To preche in any clawes Lyke pratynge poppyng dawes.
Paston Mestresse Bylyngford, ye belyke to be bretheryn.
Wyntyrton, we ar lyke to have but lytyll mor mony besyd the barly.
Wherffor iff it lyke yow by the next messenger or karyer to sende hem in a daye, I shall have them dressyd heer; and iff any off them be claymyd here aftre, in feythe I wyll restoor it.
Please it yow to weete that I receyvyd a letter from yow, wretyn the Saterdaye next byffor Candelmesse; for answer wheroff, lyke it yow to weete, that as for the bokys that weer Sir James (God have hys sowle!
Our frayle bodyes wandreth in care and payne And lyke to botes troubled with tempest sore From rocke to rocke cast in this se mundayne, Before our iyen beholde we ever more The deth of them that passed are before.
Why doo they not lyke wyse gyue vs to kysse the spottel, & other fylthe & dyrt of the body?
With these (as they say) saynt Thomas dyd wype a way the swett of hys face or hys neke, ye fylthe of hys nose, or other lyke fylthynes with whiche mannes body dothe abownde.
Some thyng have they in writing lefte behynde them concerning into this mater, for the ease and furtheraunce as well of suche as shilde in lyke charge after them succede, as of them whiche from tyme to tyme in that tong were to be instructed .
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lyke" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
