If anye also happeneth to be diseased with the bloudy flixe, by stuffing a yong Pigeon with newe waxe, after rosting the same, and eating the fleshe thereof, doeth in shorte time after staye the same.
In part we weare ey witness of the fact, Nor is our hast so great but wee maye staye To viewe his tragick end, whom the strickt lawe Hathe made a Just example.
Interupt mee not: Staye I should nowe begett a stratagem To save myne owne lyfe, myne estate and goodds, Ey, and secure thee too.
Staye you heare In this withdraweinge roome, I'l fetch a light For safeguard of your shinnes.
Who strives to breake the sturdye steele, Or goeth about to staye the sunne; Who thinks to causse an oke to reele, Which never can by force be done: 10 That man likewise bestoweth paine, Thoughe that his laboure be in vaine.
They do esteeme for his value more the siluer than the golde: and they say the cause is, for that the prices of golde are variable, as in Italie: but the siluer is alwaies at one staye and price.
Ah, Emperour Otho, that thou art so well reuenged nowe, with cowardly fraude and deceipt committed against thee by Alerane of Saxone, taking away her from thee, which was the staffe and future staye of thy reuerend age.
But because I purpose not tostaye in the full discourse of his vertues and qualities, I meane but to touche in this Nouell, so muche as Aulus Gellius (in whom I am now conuersant) doth of him make remembraunce.
Wherfore settingstaye in hys affayres, and prouydyng for his trayne, he made him ready to depart.
And thus, intreatinge to excuse the sendinge this messenger and not comeinge our selves in respect of our short tyme of staye and not being furnished with matterialls needfull to present his Maties.
He finally wrote back that in case the act for the succession was not ‘passed thoroughly’ they were to ‘staye the same tyl further knowleage of his graces pleasure[343].
But for that I meane not to leaue hys ingratitude vnrevenged, thou shalt staye here, vntyll thou heare newes of the due chastisment which I shall gyue hym.
Wherefore not tostaye thee from the discourse of those straunge and Aduenturous women, diuers be of diuers opinions for the Etimologie of the word: whereof amonges the Graetians be diuers iudgementes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "staye" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
