And the worship of chevalrie and knighthode ys that they shulde peinehem to wynne.
I once knew of such a case, where a woman was accused of murdering her husband; she held her mute of malice at her trial, and was adjudged to suffer peine forte et dure.
The peine forte et dure, which was the recognised punishment for this misdemeanour, was practically starvation to death.
No more "marble halls" for us, if we had to undergo the peine forte et dure as the condition of our presence!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
