For when men han wel cryed, than wol they roune; A wonder last but nyne night never in toune.
But nyne thowzand, ther was no moo, 25 The cronykle wyll not layne; Forty thowsande Skottes and fowre That day fowght them agayne.
Ther was slayne uppon the Ynglyssh perte, 145 For soth as I yow saye, Of nyne thowsand Ynglyssh men Fyve hondert cam awaye.
Then I wrought myselfe through and came on dry land againe about nyne of the clock in the morning.
In this confidence I made shift to get to the top of it, and having prepared me a place wherin I might lye both secret and warme I fell presently a sleepe, not wakeing till aboutnyne of the clock.
This presse house was very full of lumber, and their was amongst the rest a great coupe or fat about nyne foot high and seaven foot wide.
Wherefore," asks old Leigh, "have you used the number of nyne in all your demonstracions more than any other?
Ther was slayne upon the Ynglyssh perte, For soth as I yow saye, Of nynethowsand Ynglyssh men Fyve hondert cam awaye.
But nyne thowzand, ther was no moo, The cronykle wyll not layne; Forty thowsande of Skottes and fowre That day fowght them agayne.
Crist seith that 'as wel shal ther be Ioye in hevene upon a sinful man that doth penitence, as up-on nynety and nyne rightful men that neden no penitence?
By that the maunciple hadde his tale al ended, The sonne fro the south lyne was descended So lowe, that he nas nat, to my sighte, Degreës nyne and twenty as in highte.
The gold of nyne kinges londes Ne scholde him save fro myn hondes, In my pouer if that he were; Bot yit him stant of me no fere For noght that evere I can manace.
Whairat the said Johne and his servandis war offended, and thairfoir maid the said persuyt, upoun a Setterday, at nycht, betwixnyne and ten.
And this wes proclamet at the Croce efter nyne houris at nycht; and sa that truble quyetted.
Ye sustren nyne eek, that by Elicone In hil Parnaso listen for tabyde.
We too will therefore hope that old Lydgate's sowle be gon (To) the sterred paleys above the dappled skye, Ther to syng Sanctus insessavntly Emonge the mvses nyne celestyall, Before the hyeste Iubyter of all.
Amonge the muses nyne celestyalle Byfore the hyest Iubyter of alle 371 THE ORIEL TEXT.
Given under our hands at Borrowstownes, the twentie-nynt day of November, ane thousande six hunder and seventie nyne yeirs.
By these hilts, such another swash-buckler lives not in the nynequarters of the world.
Than puttyng why before it, we shall have: Why have I me, why have I the, why have I hym; and this is nyne wayes in the affyrmatyve.
And thus thai festyng days nyne at all, With large pompe, and kyngly apparall, 20 Accordyng sych a spowsage as was this.
Than shewed he him the litel erthe, that heer is, At regard of the hevenes quantite; And after shewed he him the nyne speres.
Mawand thar was in till a medow fairNyne stout carllis, all serwandis to that knycht; Sythis thai hynt, and ran in all thair mycht To the fechtaris.
Twenty and nynethai left in to that steide, Off Sothroun men that bertynit war to dede.
Bot nyne or ten he kest a gait befor, Langis the schauld, maid it bath dep and schor.
Nyne sonnys scho had, was lykly men and wicht; Ane ayth till him scho gart thaim swer full rycht.
Bot Maistir Blayr, and als Schir Thomas Gray, Eftir Wallace thai lestit mony day, Thir twa knew best off gud Schir Wilyhamys deid, 1425 Fra sexteyn yer quhill nyne and twenty yeid.
Mony trew Scot was semblyt in that land, 995 To Wallace com weill ma than nyne thowsand; Off presone part, sum had in lawbour wrocht, Fra athir part hill fast till him thai socht.
Thow sall ws se or nyne houris to morn, “Battaill to gyff, magre off all thi kyn; “For falsly thow sekis our rewme to wyn.
Sexty war slayne of Inglissmen in that place, And nyne off Scottis thair tynt was throuch that cace.
He held his way with his baner 535 Till the gret rout, quhar sammyn wer The nyne battales that wes so braid, That so feill baneris with thame had, And of men sa gret quantite, That it war wonder for to se.
Then wald he preson hald no mare, Bot on thame ran with suerd al bare, 260 And hewit and slew with all his mayn Till he hadnyne and fourty slane.
The constabill his way is gane, And nyne and fourty with him has tane, Swa that he with thame maid fifty.
Armes, the second day of June In the yere of the nativitie of our Lorde Jesus Christ A thousande five hundred sixty nyne And in the eleventh yere .
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nyne" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
