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Example sentences for "sithence"

Lexicographically close words:
sites; sith; sithe; sithed; sithen; sithens; sithes; siti; siting; sitio
  1. For sithence the time that I have had years of discretion, I have lived a sinner, and offended my Lord God, for the which I ask him heartily forgiveness.

  2. And sayth that sithence the last edition was supprest, a great number have beene with this examynate to have bought the same.

  3. Sithence had he wreaking With cold journeys of care: from the king took he life.

  4. Sithence was clear token When the deer of the battle laid down there the hand The arm and the shoulder, and all there together Of the grip of that Grendel 'neath the great roof upbuilded.

  5. The stead of the fifel That wight all unhappy a while of time warded, Sithence that the Shaper him had for-written.

  6. So was the babe presently made whole: but never sithence might it be that the mark appeared not on his belly.

  7. Long time thence was the land in peace and without war: and Messire Thibault was with the Lady, and had of her sithence two man-children, who thereafter were worthies and of great lordship.

  8. Then spake Azones and Horatus to Amis, and said: "Fair sir, thou wottest how feally we have served thee sithence the death of thy father unto this day, and that we have never trespassed against thy commandment.

  9. Aristotle and the rest, sithence my comming from Thebes to Athens, from a place of conquest to a pallace of[820] quiet, I have resolved with my selfe in my court to have as many philosophers as I had in my camp souldiers.

  10. Tis five years or more sithence they were wed.

  11. But she hath been rocked in the heresy in her cradle, and ever sithence hath been within earshot thereof.

  12. She hath but some twenty years e'en now, and 'tis full three summers sithence his death.

  13. There slew they Adalbright the King, Two of his swains slew they, But the third sailed swiftly from the land Sithence I saw him never a day.

  14. In the hillside bode Agnes, three years thrice told o'er, For the green earth sithence fell she longing full sore.

  15. King Stephen was there lodged; but sithence called the Queen's Wardrobe.

  16. For the first footing that euer the French did set in this Iland, sithence the time of Ethelbert & Sigebert, was with Emma, which Ladie brought ouer a traine of French Gentlemen and Ladies with hir into England.

  17. Whereby may be seen that nothing is so hard or so uncertaine to be found out as the certaintie of the truth, sithence [Footnote: Since.

  18. The knight led her into the ring, and said: Now are we come home for the present, my lady, and if it please thee to light down we shall presently eat and drink, and sithence talk a little.

  19. So she arose and clad herself, and went straight to the grave begun, and toiled hard till she had digged it out deep, and sithence she dragged the witch thereinto and heaped the earth upon her.

  20. But she arose and paced the chamber, and sithence looked out of the window over the empty water, and wept again.

  21. Sithence he had ridden to the Castle of the Quest with the said Prior of St. Austin of Greenford, and had found Leonard, and had settled all the business how it was to be done.

  22. Sir," saith Lancelot, "I have sithence spoken to her and she to me, and so hath she told me her will and her wish.

  23. Sithence then hath the place been so builded up as that there is an abbey there and folk of religion, and many bear witness that there it is still, right fair.

  24. Never sithence hath the castle stinted of burning, and I tell you that of this castle and one other will be kindled the fire that shall burn up the world and put it to an end.

  25. Never sithence that his mother was dead would not the lad be with his father, for well knoweth he that he slew her of wrong.

  26. Yea, lady," saith he, "It is but just now sithence that I left her.

  27. Sir," saith Lancelot, "it is no long time agone sithence I saw him in the house of the good King Hermit, that hath tended me and healed me right sweetly of the wounds that the knight gave me.

  28. And a score league Welsh had he ridden sithence that he parted from the squire, and sore he misdoubted him that he should find no hold.

  29. Sir," saith the hermit, "Now God give you grace and courage to ask the question that the others to whom the Graal hath appeared would ask not, whereof have many mischances sithence befallen much people.

  30. Now may you well know how many a hurt he hath done me sithence that your father hath been dead and you were no longer at the castle, sith that this hath he done me even now that you are here.

  31. You have done so much for me sithence that I came hither that I ought not to be afeard of you, for traitor is the man or woman that kisseth another to procure his hurt.

  32. I have seen him sithence that he came from King Arthur's court but once only, and whither he is gone I know not.

  33. Lucan," said the King, "Joy hath been somewhat far from me sithence that the Queen hath been dead, and Gawain and the other knights have held aloof from my court so that they deign come hither no longer.

  34. Perceval relateth to him all the greater adventures that have befallen him at many times and in many places sithence that he departed from him, and King Hermit much marvelleth him of many.

  35. I wis nought of my wife her manner of living ere I wedded her, but soothly sithence [since] she came hither, I know of a surety that she hath never companied with any such evil persons as be these Lollards.

  36. Hath my Lord my husband been here sithence I took sick?

  37. Methinks I have seen Mistress Lysken to deal pretty closely with linen and woollen, sithence Father and I came hither," said Eunice smiling.

  38. Launceston, Penheale mannour coasteth the high way, claiming the right of ancient demain, & sometimes appertaining to the Earles of Huntingdon, but purchased not long sithence by the late M.

  39. Father saith he's tenfold more comfortable sithence her coming.

  40. But I misdoubt if ever he loved her--at the least, sithence she let him from wedding the Damoiselle de Ponteallen.

  41. Mr Altham; "but she's been a sight better maid sithence she came back.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sithence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.