For the soling of them were made use of eleven hundred hides of brown cows, shapen like the tail of a keeling.
The ill-shapen bronze mass of flesh that was Shanugahi lay curled up in sleep in the shadow of a tepee.
It was a dwarfed, ill-shapen body, with short, crooked legs and long emaciated arms with protruding joints.
In this latter place Tyrwhit seems to interpret it as meaning tormented for-shapen (A.
Al her brad beldyng Ben belded with synne, And in worshipe of the world Here wynnyng they holden; They shapen her chapolories, And strecchet hem brode, And launceth heighe her hemmes With babelyng in stretes.
But by "Imperial Britain" I wish to indicate the informing spirit, the unseen force from within the race itself, which in the past has shapen and in the present continues to shape this outward, this material frame of empire.
O fatal sustren, which, er any clooth Me shapen was, my destene me sponne, So helpeth to this werk that is bi-gonne!
When shapen was all his conspiracy From point to point.
A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.
But when the dead man was burned and the arms of the dead, we piled a barrow and dragged up thereon a pillar, and on the topmost mound we set the shapen oar.
Well mayest thou be called so, said the damosel, the knight with the evil-shapen coat; but an thou be so hardy to take upon thee to bear that shield and to follow me, wit thou well thy skin shall be as well hewn as thy coat.
That punishment is shapen as reward Is like thy fortune: but our good estate We honour, while we sit to be adored: And thus 'twas written in the book of Fate.
That August time it was delight To watch the red moons wane to white 'Twixt grey seamed stems of apple-trees; A sense of heavy harmonies Grew on the growth of patient night, More sweet than shapenmusic is.
His ill-shapen ear, bristled with hair, seemed to say, "Beware of speaking to the animal in this cave.
Shall a man venture to mock the magic of that Eternal Moulder by whose infinite power a million suns are shapen more readily than one small jar might be rounded upon my wheel?
Somewhat to the left of where I lay uprose a huge, grim figure, roughly shapen from wood, having two uplifted wings pressing the roof, while directly in front reposed numerous dishes of untasted food.
What have my screech-owl voice, my hideous form, and my mis-shapen features, to do with the fairer workmanship of nature?
Is not such a mis-shapen monster as I am, excluded, by the very fiat of Nature, from her fairest enjoyments?
It is not shapen worth a morsel of bread; There is too much cloth; it weighs as any lead.
Ask them of Sir Leonard our priest, he knoweth of them better than others, and hath a tongue duly shapen for telling them.
Standing so, her deformity was even more visible than it was when she was seated; and it took all my nerve and power of will to take the measure of the mis-shapen shoulders without shrinking from the touch.
Who-so can wel understande is shapen to be saved in souled 15 blisse.
And as I stood perceiving her apart, And eke the bemes shyning of her yen, 135 Me thought thay were shapenlich a dart, Sherp and persing, smale, and streight as lyne.
Speak somewhat more correctly, I beseech you, lest she, being offended, furnish you with a pair of horns shapen by the pattern of those which she made for Actaeon.
Perceval looketh on him and seeth him tall and comely and well-shapen and adroit and all armed upon his horse, so he saith to him, "Sith that you are so coward, wherefore are you armed thus?
So comely a knight was he that in all the world might not be found one of better seeming nor better shapen of body.
The man perceived the effect his cruel mockery produced, and continued to revile and take to pieces the mis-shapen portions of his body with most merciless anatomy.
With this mis-shapen body tackled to a world of wit--a place as high as any of those turrets that cut the midnight air, still should I be a thing for men to scorn!
The peacock hath an unsteadfast and evil shapen head, as it were the head of a serpent, and with a crest.
And Physiologus saith it is a beast of the sea, wonderly shapen as a maid from the navel upward and a fish from the navel downward, and this wonderful beast is glad and merry in tempest, and sad and heavy in fair weather.
But at night his dreams were not upon wars norshapen blades but upon Fafnir the Dragon.
I would have thee make a sword, a sword that will be mightier and better shapen than any sword in the world.
When it was shapenwith all the cunning Regin knew it looked indeed a mighty sword.
If the nature of Man is intrinsically evil, the child must needs have been conceived in sin and shapen in iniquity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shapen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
