Secondlie, they offered their sonnesand daughters, néeces and nephues, and all other their kinsfolks to be bestowed in marriages accordingly to the pleasure of the king of England.
Howe greatlye do Prynces go about this, to leaue vnto their sonnes as large a dominion as they cã, and yet do none care lesse that they shuld be brought vp in those good wayes, wythoute the whych, principalitie can not wel be ordred.
And Plinie the nepheu was contente nowe and then to go into the schole for his friendes sonnes sake, whom he had taken vpon him to brynge vp in good learnynge.
They wyll saye that greate mens sonnes muste be excepted from thys fashion.
But the Welshmen preuenting that slander, signified to the king that no such matter was ment on their parties, but that earle Goodwine and his sonnes with their complices went about to mooue a commotion against him.
He himselfe with his sonnes Swanus, Tostie, and Girth, sailed into Flanders: and Harold with his brother Leofwine gat ships at Bristow, and passed into Ireland.
One of his sonnes also king Alfred held at the fontstone, and to the other duke Aldred was god father.
He maried his daughter Ethelswida or rather Elstride vnto Baldwine earle of Flanders, of whome he had two sonnes Arnulfe and Adulfe, the first succéeding in the erledome of Flanders, and the yoonger was made earle of Bullogne.
If that they like, her dowry shall be equall To your sonnes wealth or possibility: It is a meanes to make our wives good friendes, And to continue friendship twixt us two.
Because thou hast taught one of thy sonnes to rule his legges and not to follow learning, the other to bend his bodie every way and his minde no way.
Well, Diogenes, I perceive my sonnes brooke not thy manners.
These are Thenores sonnes of Thessaly, That come to seeke Delya their sister forth; But with a potion, I to her have given, My arts hath made her to forget her selfe.
After this he remooued to Ludlow, and there brake vp his host, and spoiling the towne and castell, he sent the duchesse of Yorke with hir two yoong sonnes to be kept in ward with the duchesse of Buckingham hir sister.
Item, Edward earle of March, and Edmund earle of Rutland, sonnes of the said duke of Yorke, shall make like oth.
Aegyptus, gaping for the dominion of the whole, did instantlie labour, that his sonnes being also 50.
And from this prison 'twas thesonnes request That his deare father might interment haue.
Can your Lordship 45 Imagine, while I liue and weare a sword, Your sonnesdeath shall be reueng'd?
They say that before she did marrie, she caused to be slaine the sonnes she had by her first husbande, for that she had a desire that a nephew of hers should succeede her in the kingdome.
I lost my Children, If these be they, I know not how to wish A payre of worthier Sonnes Bel.
Nor thou, nor he are any sonnes of mine, My sonnes would neuer so dishonour me.
I haue no more sonnes of the Royall Blood For thee to slaughter.
Villaines forbeare, we are the Empresse Sonnes Pub.
But gracious Sir, Heere are your Sonnes againe, and I must loose Two of the sweet'st Companions in the World.
Sufficeth not, that we are brought to Rome To beautifie thy Triumphs, and returne Captiue to thee, and to thy Romaine yoake, But must my Sonnes be slaughtred in the streetes, For Valiant doings in their Countries cause?
The Sonne of Clarence haue I pent vp close, His daughter meanly haue I matcht in marriage, The Sonnes of Edward sleepe in Abrahams bosome, And Anne my wife hath bid this world good night.
Sonnes let it be your charge, as it is ours, To attend the Emperours person carefully: I haue bene troubled in my sleepe this night, But dawning day new comfort hath inspir'd.
Thomas Bankes, Barber Chirurgeon, Deputie of this Ward, who had to wife Joan Laurence, by whom he had issue seven sonnes and ten daughters.
This true Prometheus first made Man of earth, And shed in him a beame of heauenly fire; Now in their mother's wombs before their birth, Doth in all sonnes of men their soules inspire.
Sonnes of God tooke the daughters of men; but of this it was sayd, perquam noxium audire et credere.
Lett the foster-sonne and sonnes sonne continue their glory, grace, and dignity, and never lett him want one of his seede to sit upon his seate.
My Husband lost his life, to get the Crowne, And often vp and downe my sonnes were tost For me to ioy, and weepe, their gaine and losse.
And (as some write) he did not onelie homage vnto the French king, but also left two of his sonnes in pledge for assurance to worke that which he had promised.
Rufus did the like vnto Malcolme king of Scots, and two of his sonnes that successiuelie reigned ouer that realme.
Right Pleasant and Goodly History of the Four Sonnes of Aymon.
The sonnes of Zebede wold sitt/ the one on the right hōde of Christ ād the other on [the] lifte.
Iesus Christ oure lorde/ & [that] we be made sonnes by faith Ihon.
Eastsaxons, and left the same to his sonnes Sighard and Sewfred.
But in the end Edwin was slaine with one of his sonnes named Osfride, and his armie beaten downe and dispersed.
He begat of his wife thrée sonnes (as the British historie affirmeth) Constantius, Aurelius Ambrosius, and Vter surnamed named Pendragon.
Serred, Seward, and Sigebert, the sonnesof Sabert.
The ioint-gouernment of Belinus and Brennus the two sonnes of Mulmucius, their discontentment, the stratagems of the one against the other, the expulsion of Brennus out of Britaine.
Thanks to his Sonnes and seruants euery one, Both males and females all, excepting none.
Beare the Kings Sonnes body, Before our Army, thy Pacorus Orades, Paies this for Marcus Crassus Romaine.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sonnes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
