Crassus saythin Tullies first booke, De Oratore: that a Lawyer's house is the oracle of the whole citie.
By this our friends (sayth he) shall right well vnderstande And knowe the great trauels that we haue past in Heathen lande.
The flame of mount Hecla (sayth he) will not burne towe (which is most apt matter for the wicke of a candle) neither is it quenched with water.
Scirings hall, whither, he sayth that a man was not able to saile in a moneths space, if he lay still by night, although he had euery day a full winde.
Fourthly, he sayth that in bankets none of the ghests vse to rise from the table: but that the good wife of the house reacheth to euery one a chamber pot, so oft as need requireth.
State (sayth Doletus) is either of the body, or of causes, or of order and condition.
They do not (sayth he) carry about money with them in their purses, neither is it any shame to be enterteined in a strange place, and to haue meat and drinke bestowed of free cost.
This people (sayth he) be fooles and dulhedes to all goodnes, but sotle, cunning and bolde, in any mischiefe.
I made some excuse by lacke of habilitie, and weakenes of bodie: well, sayth he, I am not now to learne, what you can do.
Will sayth 'tis worth a world to see y^e unction with which the deare old man bestows it on him.
Sayth she, Yet lever were I dead, Then I should lose my mayden-head, And all for love of men.
None come so neere to God in wit, none more contemne the world, vatis auarus non temere est animus, sayth Horace, versus amat, hoc studet vnurn.
If Martiall had ten muses (as he saythof himselfe) when hee but tasted a cup of wine, he had ten score when he determined to tyranize.
It is not concealed from mee (sayth he) that the time of your accustomed yearely Anatomie is at hand, which it behooues you vnder forfeiture of the foundation of your Colledge verie carefully to prouide for.
Interr this depnnt sayththat the deft did beare ted him well when he by him the said Shakespeare his daughter Marye that purpose sent him swade the plt to the solempnised uppon pmise of nnt.
This messenger (sayth mine author) was one ex caute nutritis, one of the stony hearted, that neither feared God nor dreaded death.
Then sayth he, take you away this gentlewoman and lady (meaning his wife) and let her not see her lord and husband, till such time as I will you thereunto.
Jo Sumner sayth (whose well is the best) that it will be worth to him 200 li.
After this the Broker sayth to the Marchant, you haue so much of euery sort of marchandise neat and cleare of euery charge, and so much ready money.
God's blessing be with you," he sayth with a last kiss.
Will sayth there was a general murmur or sigh ran through ye court.
Yesternighte, he sayth to me half reproachfullie, "Am not I better unto thee than ten sons?
Sayth he went up as blythe as a bridegroom to be clothed upon with immortality.
He sayth he never acquainted anie with it nor receaved anie encouragement from them or anie els.
Sayth father, "Whether Socrates were what Plato painted him in his dialogues, is with me a great matter of doubte; but it is not of moment.
Now for the trubles and oppressions sore The gronings and the sighings of the poore, I will arise' sayth God, 'and quell their foes That swell with pride; and them in rest repose.
He sayth how Codgskin Dono hath sent the King of Firando word to come up, sick or whole, although he dye per the way.
Amacan shipp sayth that, yf Gonrok Dono will, he is content to sett Damian and Jno.
Margaryte is engendred by hevenly dewe, and sheweth in it-selfe, by fynenesse of colour, whether the engendrure were maked on morowe or on eve; thus sayth kynde of this perle.
A slye servaunt in his owne helpe is often moche commended; 115 knowing of trouth in causes of thinges was more hardyer in the first sechers (and so sayth Aristotle), and lighter in us that han folowed after.
May it please God," sayth he, knitting ferventlie his hands, "to make it a blessing to all Christendom!
Sayth this Cranke, "So God helpe me, I haue but xii.
Sayth she, "I woulde not haue it spoken of agayne.
No," sayth this Cranke, "as God shall saue my soule at the day of iudgement.
Why,' sayth this bawdy basket, 'hast thou no more?
Ned Phillips, indeed, saythwe are like People living so close under a big Mountain, as not to know how high it is; but I think we .
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sayth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
