To reach it, you take the Rue Courte du Jour and the Rue Neuve St. Pierre, to the large square known as the Plaine St. Pierre, partly obtained by demolition of the monastery buildings.
In plaine English, zeale is nothing but heate: from whence it is, that zealous men are oft in Scripture sayd to burne in the spirit.
The confiding Puritan child who read The Plain Man's Pathway to Heaven, under the promise that it was a "plaine and perfite" book, must have been sorely disappointed.
Come Frier Francis, be briefe, onely to the plaine forme of marriage, and you shal recount their particular duties afterwards Fran.
The stock of his piece is not made calieuerwise, but with a plaine and straite stocke (somewhat like a fouling piece) the barrel is rudely and vnartificially made, very heauie, yet shooteth but a very small bullet.
There is a very great riuer which runneth through the plaine of Iauat, which falleth into the Caspian sea, by a towne called Bachu, neere vnto which towne is a strange thing to behold.
And when that death through everye limbe 185 Had showde its greatest spite, Her chiefest foes did plaine confesse Shee was a glorious wighte.
And therewithall he fetcht a sigh, 125 As though his heart would breake: And Rosamonde, for very griefe, Not one plaine word could speake.
There is very little plaine ground and no grasse, except a little which is much like vnto mosse that groweth on soft ground, such as we get Turffes in.
The Norther lands haue lesse store of snow, more grasse, and are more plaine Countreys: the cause whereof may be, for that the Souther Ilands receiue all the snow, that the cold winds and piercing ayre bring out of the North.
And therefore hee desired them to deliuer their plaine and honest opinion, whether the Pinnesse were sufficient for him so to aduenture in or no.
Iosephus Moletius is of that minde, not onely in his plaine Hemispheres of the world, but also in his Sea card.
Terra vniuersa [Marginal note: In the south side of Newefoundland, there is store of plaine and champion Countrey, as Richard Clarke found.
The Plaine was probably the Plainedes Sablons; for the Cours, see page 164, note 2.
Christian man willingly giueth ouer to search into such hidden secrets and he accounteth it vnlawful to receiue or deliuer vnto others, opinions (grounded vpon no plaine and manifest places of Scripture) for certainties and trueths, Deut.
Therefore it is plaine that these miracles of ise are grounded vpon a more slippery foundation then ise it selfe.
But let vs see what trueth and plaine dealing is to be found in these men.
Walsingham maketh plaine and euident mention of a farre greater Fleete of the same king; namely, of 1100.
Well he wist and remembred, that he was faine to stay till he had a Westerne winde, and somewhat Northerly: and thence he sailed plaine East along the coast still so far as he was able in the space of 4.
For to what purpose should an Historiographer make leasings, if history be a report of plaine trueth?
Melpomene, signified vnto the Portugales in plaine termes; that Africa, except the small Isthmus between the Arabian gulfe and the Mediterran sea, was on all sides enuironed with the Ocean?
The Iland, most part thereof, is mountainous and vntilled But that part which is plaine doth greatly abound with fodder, which is so ranke, that they are faine to driue their cattell from the pasture, least they surfet or be choaked.
To offer advise, unrequested: what is it els but to vaunt youre selfe wiser then he is, whom you do counsell: nay rather it is a plaine checke to him, for his Ignoraunce and folly.
And, that this is true, that which allwayes happens to all men, dothe shewe it plaine inoughe.
The Britains were imbattelled in such order, that their fore ward stood in the plaine ground, and the other on the side of an hill, as though they had risen on heigth one ranke aboue another.
And therefore to séeke it with Hector Boetius in Scotland, or with Polydor Virgil so far as Doncaster or Pontfret, it maie be thought a plaine error.
Marry sir, by a rule as plaine as the plaine bald pate of Father time himselfe Ant.
See, among other authorities, A Plaine Declaration of Barmudas, in black letter, 1613, written by one of the party.
The writer of the Plaine Declaration makes old Sir George Somers the resourceful hero of their marvelous escape, and it was from him that the islands took the name of Somers or Summer Islands.
The cry rolled up and swelled with the violence of a tempest, till little by little it filled the distance, the depths of the Bois as far as Mont Valerien, the meadows of Longchamps and the Plaine de Boulogne.
The avenue was part of the luxurious quarter at that time springing up in the vague district which had once been the Plaine Monceau.
The king beeing the more kindled herewith, protested inplaine words, that Anselme could not kéepe his faith and allegiance towards him, and his obedience also to the see of Rome, against his will and pleasure.
The south side is plaine low ground, and the north side high mountaines, the rockes being of a grauelly nature, interlaced with many vains of glistring spangles.
I speake to thee plaine Souldier: If thou canst loue me for this, take me?
When we had gone a good part of our journey, over the plaine and easie fields, we fortuned to come to a little towne, where we lodged at a certaine Captaines house.
Then sayd I unto Socrates, Leave off this high and mysticall kinde of talke, and tell the matter in a more plaine and simple fashion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plaine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
