Then blow some trumpet loud and free, And give thine oaten pipe away, Ah, leave the hills of Arcady!
Piers, I have piped erst so long with pain, That all mine oaten reeds be rent and wore, And my poor Muse hath spent her spared store, Yet little good hath got, and much less gain.
Since the morning of the day before I had not broken fast, but now I ate hungrily of oatenand barley cake.
All day he sat by me and watched me at my work, looking up in my face at whiles with a wistful gaze, and I gave him a morsel of oaten cake, which he ate greedily, seeming to be half-starved of hunger.
Thorkell dived down into the kitchen, and rooted about in the meal casks for the oaten cake, and into the larder for the cheese, and into the cupboard for the bread-basket known as the "peck.
Finally, he invited all and sundry to partake freely of the oaten cake and ale that he had himself brought from Ballamona in his car for the refreshment of his own tenants there present.
They drove in the open springless car in which he had brought down the oaten cake and ale.
And now salute an Oaten Reed, For surely Oates deserves to be Exalted far 'bove any Tree.
I will depart, re-tune the songs I framed In verse Chalcidian to the oaten reed Of the Sicilian swain.
Now, Varus, I- For lack there will not who would laud thy deeds, And treat of dolorous wars- will rather tune To the slim oaten reed my silvan lay.
I went over the fields to the nearest point where I perceived a light, and found a provision shop; there I purchased three oaten cakes, at a penny each, and a pound of cheese for eightpence.
Presently comes an attack but little disguised on Philips: "Thou will not find my shepherdesses idly piping on oaten reeds, but milking the kine, tying up the sheaves, or if the hogs are astray driving them to their styes.
No more, my son, the rural reed employ, Nor trill the trifling strain of empty joy; No more thy love-resounding sonnets suit To notes of pastoral pipe or oaten flute.
Thus he secured his audience, who knew nothing about oaten reeds, and instead of the plaudits of the dilettanti secured the true fame of popular comprehension and knowledge.
She answered John's look with a sweet, grave smile, and a slight nod towards the little round table, upon which there was a plate of smoked goose and some oaten cake for his supper.
He looked pleasantly at the blazing fire and the table on the hearthrug, with its basket of oaten cakes, its pitcher of cream, and its whiskey-bottle and toddy glasses.
Oaten bread and cheese and milk were set before him, and the winter's pile of knitted stockings and mittens brought out whilst he refreshed.
At the same time, in the large oven built into the wall on the right of the fireplace, she and her helpers had been baking spiced cake and oaten bread the whole of the morning, as if providing for a regiment of soldiers.
Then the fox had fine oatenbread all the year, and the other one had fodder.
That oaten pipe of hers is mute Or thrown away; but with a flute Her loneliness she cheers; This flute, made of a hemlock stalk, At evening in his homeward walk The Quantock woodman hears.
Meanwhile the rural ditties were not mute; Temper'd to the oaten flute, Rough Satyrs danced, and Fauns with cloven heel From the glad sound would not be absent long; And old Damoetas loved to hear our song.
One by one the neighbours began to send their children in to get some learning from him, and with what they brought, a few eggs or an oaten cake or a couple of sods of turf, he made out a way of living.
Here I find four oaten cakes and a cold knuckle of ham.
Some oaten bread, butter and cheese, and a cup of homely ale was put before him; and while he ate, the pretty Gwenny carried a portion to Twm, as he held the horses in the yard.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oaten" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
