And the shepe coceaued before the staues & brought forth straked/ spotted & partie.
We found on shore three dead people, and two of them had their staues lying by them, and their olde skinnes wrapped about them and the other had nothing lying by, wherefore we thought it was a woman.
Their weapons are certaine long staues with sharpe points, and bowes.
Some of the Englishmen rode to the barriers, requiring that some of them within would come foorth and breake staues with them, but they could not be answered.
Each of these staues had others made fast vnto them, so that euery of them had fiue skulles broched through the temples.
Also for the more part the staues stand rather vpon the euen nomber of verses then the odde, though there be of both sorts.
Therefore if ye make your staffe of eight, by two fowers not entertangled, it is not a huitaine or a staffe of eight, but two quadreins, so is it in ten verses, not being entertangled they be but two staues of fiue.
Behinde these Louteas come such as doe beare certaine tables hanged at staues endes, wherein is written in siluer letters, the name, degree, and office of that Loutea, whom they follow.
But assoone as they knew that the Gouernour was in Tulla, the first night about the morning watch, they came in two squadrons two seuerall waies, with their bowes and arrowes, and longstaues like pikes.
Two of them had bowes and arrowes, and other two 2 bastonadoes much thicker then the wrist of a mans hand, and other two with 2 long staues like iauelins with very sharpe points, and approched very neere vs being nowe come on shore.
They came also against them by land through a thick wood, and a moorish ground, and had staues with very sharp forked heads made of the bones of fishes, and fought verie valiantly with vs, which went out to encounter them.
Truely Madam, he holds Belzebub at the staues end as well as a man in his case may do: has heere writ a letter to you, I should haue giuen't you to day morning.
Fill me a Bowle of Wine: Giue me a Watch, Saddle white Surrey for the Field to morrow: Look that myStaues be sound, & not too heauy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "staues" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
