It is true that many of them were expert fighters both with ax and with sword, but they were unused to carry heavy armor, and a half-armed man would have short shrift in such a hand-to-hand struggle as lay before them.
Bid her devise Some means to come to shrift this afternoon; And there she shall at Friar Laurence' cell Be shriv'd and married.
Bid her devise some means to come to shrift This afternoon; And there she shall at Friar Laurence' cell Be shriv'd and married.
There would be, though Rochester in his infatuation seemed blind to the fact, as short a shrift as the Howards could contrive for the King's minion.
With Rochester in the Howard camp there would be short shriftfor Thomas Overbury.
The town is already full of soldiers looking for you, and it will be short shrift for us all if you are seen.
Short shrift for me if they came through, so in the obstinacy of desperation I set to work to pile old furniture and dry goods against the barricade.
He is on his way to Villefranche, and short will be the shrift of any Jacks who come into his hands, for he is a man of short speech.
Short would have been his shrift had not thick darkness fallen about him, and when the Red Cross Knight cried to him to begin the fray afresh, only silence answered him.
He then made out a receipt, handed it to the astonished trooper, and, directing him where to go, carried out the same short shrift with the other three.
Be plaine good Son, rest homely in thy drift, Ridling confession, findes but ridling shrift Rom.
See where she comes from shrift With merrie looke Cap.
Bid her deuise some meanes to come to shrift this afternoone, And there she shall at Frier Lawrence Cell Be shriu'd and married: here is for thy paines Nur.
Shrift father, a priest to whom confession is made.
As to Catharine, she cannot be said to use Father Clement's ministry, seeing her confessor is old Father Francis the Dominican, from whom she had her shrift today.
Henry VII was not slow in taking whatever steps might be necessary to protect his crown; there had been but short shrift for Lambert Simnel, and Perkin Warbeck was a much more dangerous aspirant.
When arrested he was given but short shrift and shared the same ghastly fate as his predecessor.
There is short shrift for the unsuccessful impostor of royalty--even in an age of fluctuation between rebellion and anarchy.
If Ulysses is the man he then was these suitors will have a short shrift and a sorry wedding.
Thou art returned betimes, holy father," said he, "for our prisoner is like to want thee for a last shrift presently.
The other on Short Shrift Island is in different kinds of money, taken from different ships of different nations--it is all good money.
It is buried on what was known as Short Shrift Island; on the highest point of this Short Shrift Island is a large cabbage wood stump and twenty feet (20 ft.
It was impossible to imagine a cay better answering to my conchologist's description of Short Shrift Island.
But of "Short Shrift Island" we sought in vain for a trace.
Short Shrift Island is a place where passing vessels stop to get fresh water.
As the reader may recall, "Short Shrift Island" lay a few miles to the northwest of Andros Island.
Of course I had asked it only for the sake of learning more precisely about Short Shrift Island.
The other on Short Shrift Island is in different kinds of money, taken from different ships of different nations .
