With a spereuppone his shelde 522 Stiffly gan he strike; The shelde he brake imiddis the feelde, His hawberke wolde not breke.
He dide lete bere his hede on a spere point of a spear Througħ-oute this faire Citee.
With a spere vppone his shelde þan̄ Stifly ganne he strike; The shelde he brake I-myddis the feelde; 524 His Hawberke wolde not breke.
Tamper; Roland kills Rouland bare the kinge of Ynde a king of India, Ther with his spere frome his stede.
It begins thus: "Ihesu {thorn}at was withspere ystonge.
Emprynted by Wynkyn de Worde:" we are exhorted to "Spere [i.
Hoves by hym on a blonke (horse) and his spere holdes.
Bifore Pilat and oother peple In the place he hoved; Maugree his manye teeth, He was maad that tyme To take the spere in his hond, And justen with Jhesus.
Hof- und Staats-Bibliothek of Munich, which was intended for a "Compositio spere solido.
His spere was of fine cypres, That bodeth warre and nothing pees, The hed ful sharpe yground.
And if ye wol nat so, my lady swete, Than preye I thee, to-morwe with a spere 2255 That Arcita me thurgh the herte bere.
And, by his eighte spere in his wirking, 1280 He knew ful wel how fer Alnath was shove Fro the heed of thilke fixe Aries above That in the ninthe speere considered is; Ful subtilly he calculed al this.
Whan Phebus the crabbe had nere his cours ronne And toward {the} Leon his Iourney gan take To loke on Pyctagoras spere / I had begonne ¶ Syttyng all solytary allone besyde a lake.
Wyth a scalop & Thomas holdyng in his honde ¶ A spere and Phylyp aproched hym to: ¶ Iames the lesse nexte hem in pycture too.
On every syde men come oute, Wherof the kinges herte afflihte, And he with al the haste he mihte A spere cauhte and out he goth, As he that was nyh wod for wroth.
Bot erst he hadde sorwe ynowh, 3700 For that Serpent made him travaile So harde and sore of his bataile, That nou he stod and nou he fell: For longe time it so befell, That with his swerd ne with his spere He mihte noght that Serpent dere.
This wyht upon a spere tho A pensel which was wel begon, Embrouded, scheweth him anon: Thre fisshes alle of o colour In manere as it were a tour Upon the pensel were wroght.
To spere the estyrs of Rome'; Le Bone Florence, 293; in Ritson, Met.
And there kyng Arthur smote syr Mordred vnder the shelde wyth a foyne of his spere thorughoute the body more than a fadom'; Sir T.
And thou here watchest at the gate, 7560 With spere in thyne arest alway; There muse, musard, al the day.
The excellence of the spere solide, amonges other noble conclusiouns, sheweth manifeste the diverse assenciouns of signes in diverse places, as wel in the righte cercle as in the embelif cercle.
And understond wel, that evermo this Cercle Equinoxial turneth iustly fro verrey est to verrey west; as I have shewed thee in the spere solide.
Sir Torent armyd hym~ anon [1440] And his knyght{es} euerychone With sheld and spere in hond.
Thourgh the he]lpe of god of heuen Thorough ye and] herin euen God send the spere the right way.
Torrent wase glad and folowyd fast, And hysspere on hyme he brast, Good Adyloke yed hyme nere.
In to the brest he hym~ bare, His spere hede lefte he thare, So eviAEsAEs was hitt {bythought}.
Thurrow godd{es} helpe and sent Awsden~ The spere {throw ye and herne gan ren}.
Tha eode h['e] eft ongean to dhaes halgan martyres byrgenne, and funde hisspere standan mid blode begleddod.
Let us spere some tidings, said Percivale, at yonder recluse.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spere" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
