And if men lyvede as mesure wolde, Sholde nevere moore be defaute Amonges cristene creatures, If Cristes wordes ben trewe.
I pray, parceyve now The pursut of a frere, In what mesure of a mekenesse Thise men deleth.
But money may maken Mesureof the peyne; After that his power is to payen, His penaunce shal fayle.
Therfore mesure is muche worth, 9060 It may noght be to deere; For the meschief and the meschaunce Amonges men of Sodome, Weex thorugh plentee of payn, And of pure sleuthe.
Prendre la mesure du cul avec le pied (obsolete), to bring one’s foot in violent contact with another’s posteriors.
The tothir fled to seyk warrand, That out-our mesuredede can dreid.
For he led hym with mesure ay, And with gret wit his chevelry 668 He governit ay sa worthely, That he oft full unlikly thing Brocht rycht weill to gud ending.
She nas to sobre ne to glad; 880 In alle thinges more mesure Had never, I trowe, creature.
Tho was I war wher that ther sat a quene That, as of light the somer-sonne shene Passeth the sterre, right so over mesure 300 She fairer was than any creature.
Tyll this small sore, at the last become mortall Suche wyll no counsell ensue, nor mesure haue Nor temper theym selfe in lesse nor yet in more.
The proverb, "A brebis pres tondue, Dieu luy mesure le vent," is to be found in Jan.
And charged me to labour fer out of mesure ¶ {that} it was grete merueyl how I might endure Original has ¶ The com of my swete wyll testyfy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mesure" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
