O, haddest thou in thy conquest deed y-be, Ful mikel untrouthe had ther dyed with thee!
O where hast thou be so longe commensal, that hast so 25 mikel eeten of the potages of foryetfulnesse, and dronken so of ignorance, that the olde souking[es] whiche thou haddest of me arn amaystred and lorn fro al maner of knowing?
To the gracious king art thou mikel holden, of whos grace and goodnesse somtyme hereafter I thinke thee enforme, whan I shew the ground where-as moral vertue groweth.
Trewly, I wol that thou it wel knowe; for I see thee so set, and not chaunginge herte haddest in my service; and I made thou haddest grace of thy kinge, in 120 foryevenesse of mikel misdede.
I than, wening mikel meryte have deserved in furthering and mayntenaunce of tho thinges, besyed and laboured, with al my diligence, in werkinge of thilke maters 60 to the ende.
He hailsed me withmikel pride; Ic haved wel mykel ferly wat he was; I saide, Wel mote the bityde!
An hundred ſo mikel wex hiſ tile, So may god friðe ðor he wile.
And als mikelthe tother day Sal it sattel and wit away.
Mikel said: "Sometimes they cannot be separated and have to be killed.
Mikel was still snoring, and I looked at him and thought I would let him snore a little more.
When I returned I saw that Mikelhad prepared our supper.
Here I said good-bye to the good Mikel and thanked him cordially for the care he had taken of me.
After our breakfast that morning, Mikel said: "We must go and tell some of the folks who live in a little hamlet not far from here to come with us.
So I followed Mikel closely, as he had bade me, but what thumps our sleighs would sometimes get on the now uneven ice of the river!
Before leaving the little house of refuge Mikel swept the floor, and made it as clean as we had found it--for it is the custom of the people to do this before they leave.
Towards midnight Mikel said: "Our reindeer are tired, we must rest; but we will not sleep more than three or four hours, for we must reach a station where we can procure fresh reindeer.
After looking at Mikel I stretched myself on the snow, but quite a distance from him, not to be disturbed by his snoring.
When I returned Mikel was stretched on his back on the snow with his arms spread out, and was snoring like a good fellow.
At about three o'clock Mikel awoke me, saying, "Paulus, it is about time to go.
Mikel took a big pinch of snuff and replied: "Paulus, I think I am the only one, that knows where this bear is sleeping, for I have kept it a secret.
Ful sori was þat seli knaue, Mikel dred he mouthe haue, For at hise herte he saw a knif, For to reuen him hise lyf.
Of hire haue ich michel kare; Sho is mikel in mi þouth, Of me self is me rith nowt.
Mikel plente upon þe bok: He ys hire yaf, and she as tok.
Biforn here fet þanne lay a tre, And putten with a mikel ston, &c.
And I'd have pictures hung on the wall of Mikel and Magdaline and them old fallen men castin' stuns at fallen wimmen and what the Lord said about it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mikel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
