For hem ne list not, sikirly; For sadde burdens that men taken Make folkes shuldres aken.
Nay, but the diuell take mocking: speake sadde brow, and true maid Cel.
Which wordes caused her to departe all saddeand sore abasshed.
And fyrst of all he thought on a feder, a straw, a pynnes poynte, and suche other; but nothynge could he deuyse but that it was somwhat; wherfore he came home all sadde and pencyfe for sorowe of losynge of his xl.
By sadde tokenes and by wordes bolde, How that his wyf had doon hir lecherye, Him to gret shame and to gret vileinye; 260 And tolde him ofte, he saugh it with his yën.
Thus seyden sadde folk in that citee, Whan that the peple gazed up and doun, For they were glad, right for the noveltee, To han a newe lady of hir toun.
Perchaunce one of a sadde wyt wyl be loth so to play the child among chyldren.
Austyn the olde Herof made bokes, And hymself ordeyned To sadde us in bileve.
It is a mery tale too laugh at, but this bourd induceth verye graue and sadde thynges.
We should haue made no mention in thys place of ryches and prefermente, for they bryng wyth them no pleasaunt lyfe, but rather a sadde and a pêsiue.
Item to Appoint some sadde personne to be tresourer of her chamber for the tyme.
The sadde Man whistled in a dismall sort, And the poore thinge slunk away, and hid his Tayle.
The sadde old Man was silent--I arose, And felt great Grief and Horrour in my Breste.
The sadde old Man sate down upon a Stone, And I sate on another by his Side; He heaved mournfullie a pyteous Grone, And then, to ease my doubts, himself applied.
I wishd myself agen uponn the Playnes, Yet cold not but that sadde old Man attende.
At last I met an old sadde Man, and asked Where a tired Traveller maye finde repose.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sadde" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
