They wene that no man may hem bigyle; But, by my thrift, yet shal I blere hir yë For al the sleighte in hir philosophye.
What sleighte is it, thogh it be long and hoot, 2126 That he nil finde it out in som manere?
Ther nas baillif, ne herde, ne other hyne, That he ne knew hissleighte and his covyne; They were adrad of him, as of the deeth.
And for as muchel as the devel fighteth agayns a man more by queyntise and by sleighte than by strengthe, therfore men shal withstonden him by wit and by resoun and by discrecioun.
For [212] Cassidorie seith: that "it is a maner sleighte to hindre, whan he sheweth to doon a thing openly and werketh prively the contrarie.
And in her swough so sadly holdeth she 1100 Hir children two, whan she gan hem tembrace, That with greet sleighte and greet difficultee The children from hir arm they gonne arace.
He demed alle the coles y-liche good, For of the sleighte he no-thing understood.
If that I live, thy name shal be shove In English, that thy sleighte shal be knowe!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sleighte" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
