His fellow said, “Think ye not schame For to gif credence till ane dreame?
Manhede but prudence is ane fury blind, And bringis ane man to schame and indegence.
Some sayis of that discomfitour He thocht sic schame and dishonour That he departit of that land, And never wes sene into Ingland.
But when the Bible was presented, and the praise thairof declared, sche began to frown: for schame sche could not refuise it.
Recompense thame, O Lord, as thou knowest maist expedient for thy awin glorie, and for the perpetuall schame of all tratouris to thair commoun-wealth.
Sche wolde have kist him wonder fayn, Bot schame tornede hire agayn; 3790 It was noght the manere as tho, Forthi sche dorste noght do so.
And I for schame Ne wiste what I scholde ansuere; And natheles I gan to swere That be my trouthe I knew him noght; So ferr it was out of mi thoght, Riht as it hadde nevere be.
And sche, which hath hire sorwes grene, 5040 Hire wo to telle thanne assaieth, Bot tendre schame hire word delaieth, That sondri times as sche minte To speke, upon the point sche stinte.
Thus ben the Sostres briddes bothe, And ben toward the men so lothe, That thei ne wole of pure schame Unto no mannes hand be tame; For evere it duelleth in here mynde Of that thei founde a man unkinde, And that was false Teres.
Bot he, which alle schame dradde, Goth forth in stede of his penance, And takth the fortune of his chance, 1670 As he that was with trowthe affaited.
And thei hire bidden evere in on To telle forth, and therupon, Whan that sche sih sche moste nede, Hire tale betwen schame and drede Sche tolde, noght withoute peine.
First av all they wint round an' got the names av all thim that was goin' to join in; an' the explainin' of the schame took a dale av a time.
Many had befoir promissed, but at the poynt it was left so bayre, that with schame it was schut up in the pock againe, and thei after a schaw returned with more schame to the realme, then skaith to thare ennemyes.
At the reverens of God, avyse hym zet to be war of hys expences and gydyng that yt be no schame to us alle.
Yt is a schame and a thyng that is myche spokyn of in thys contre that zour faders graveston is not mad.
Think ȝhe na lak and schame into ȝour mynd, 10 To do sa gret owtrage to strang Enee, In hys absens thus catyfly to fle?
Tharfor, all thocht baith schame and felloun ire Thar breistis had enflambyt hait as fyre.
Sen he hym self the gret Agamemnon, The kyng of Myce, and cheif ledar of on Of all the Grekis ostis in batale, Ha, schame to say!
Quhar schame is lost quyte schent is womanhed; Quhat of bewte, quhar honeste lyis ded?
And, if you were in the chair now, before a jury, wouldn't you swear that there was a schame among them to get Anty Lynch married to Martin Kelly?
And isn't it a hundred pities that I must come and upset such a pretty schame as that?
It's not come to that yet, that a Kelly is wanting to schame money out of a Lynch.
I don't believe it--it's only a schame of the hussy to get him.
The quhilk drede of schame suld haue in it fyve wittis to kepe, that throu nane of thai suld dishonour cum, and that the noblesse of his curage suld defend thai fyve wittis, that neuer throu thame euill na wikkitnesse cum.
The blaze was gone in a wink, but the whole schame came to me thin, I believe I was mad too.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "schame" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
