It is a shorte waye in dede that cõmonlye is vsed: for manye be compelled of one more easelye by feare, that one brought vp of one liberallye.
I confesse that, and it were a very shorteway to learnynge, if it were so nowe a dayes.
Finally, shorte and mery conceited sentences, as commonly be prouerbes, and quicke shorte sayinges of noble men, in the whiche onlye in tyme paste philosophie was wonte to be taught to the people.
Let nat for that, but after his wyll the gyde Better a shorte payne, than that doth longe abyde No sore can be releuyd without payne.
What gaines this imposition may turne unto the Crowne of England in shorte tyme wee may more then gesse, havinge but an eye to the Kinge of Spaines revenewes, which he nowe hath out of all his domynions in all the West Indies.
The present shorte trades causeth the maryner to be caste of and ofte to be idle, and so by povertie to fall to piracie.
Criseyde, at shortewordes for to telle, Welcomed him, and doun by hir him sette; And he was ethe y-nough to maken dwelle.
And lord, so that his herte gan to quappe, Heringe hir come, and shorte for to syke!
At shorte wordes, wel ye may me leve; I can no more, it shal be founde at preve.
And if god wil, in shorte tyme, I shal amende this leudnesse in joininge 115 syllables; whiche thing, for dulnesse of witte, I may not in three letters declare.
Than saye I that no man may shorte ne lengthe the day ordayned of his +dying, altho[ugh] somtyme to us it semeth som man to do a thing of free wil, wherthorow his deeth he henteth.
Laste foloweth the shorte abidinge, a certeine Token of the disease to be in the spirites, as wel may be proued by the Ephemera that Galene writethe of, whiche because it consistethe in the Spirites, lasteth but one natural day.
According to Crawford, 'after theire metinge and shorte spekinge together she asked hym of hys lettres, wherein he complained of the crueletye of som.
After theire metinge and shorte speking to geth{r} she asked him of his lres, wherein he complained of the cruelltye of som.
At shorte wordes, right so Demophon The same wey, the same path hath gon (70) That dide his false fader Theseus.
Also this shorte rewle is soth, that the latitude of any place in a regioun is the distance fro the senith unto the equinoxial.
At shorte wordes, thou nescapest noght Out of my paleys, or that thou be deed, But thou consente and werke after my reed; 2645 Tak this to thee for ful conclusioun.
Arriving in London, he was brought to the hospital and “ther yn shorte space his witte [p032] was recoueryd.
And heaven being used shorte as one syllable, when it is in verse stretched with a Diastole is like a lame dogge, that holdes up one legge.
To his son William, "my coate of Tuftaffatie and a shorte cloke of rashe, laide with parchment lace.
And, lord, so that his herte gan to quappe, Heringe hir come, andshorte for to syke!
The one is possessed and doth nat possesse; and the other within a shorte whyle leueth the possession of riches.
For by that lord that called is Saint Jame, As I have thries in this shorte night Swived the miller's daughter bolt-upright, While thou hast as a coward lain aghast*.
I have strooke him under the shorte ribs: I come, Hyanthe!
And at the end:-- "Here endeth a shorte treatyse called Margerie kempe de Lynn.
She has come down to us only in a tiny quarto of eight pages printed by Wynkyn de Worde:-- "Here begynneth a shorte treatyse of contemplacyon taught by our lorde Jhesu cryste, or taken out of the boke of Margerie kempe of Lynn.
I sopose he xal send yow word in shorte time ho he wylle do.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shorte" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
