O'er fanes and offer-steads he rules by hundreds, yet was not among the Æsir born.
Since the sword steads not, I will make assay If with my bugle I can clear the way.
Yea, and already we fear lest these devils have wasted certain of our steads which would lie on their road, before our folk might fall in with them.
And the longest tale that need be told of them is that, by the furtherance of Osberne, they sped their errand well at most of the steads of the mid and lower Dales.
Saith he: "If aught is to be done from this side, we shall presently have the folk from the lower steads drifting into us, and we should make a good band were it not for yonder wet dyke which the thieves have gotten them for a defence.
A partition of its fields is made and a new cluster of steads is formed; for housebuilding is not a lengthy or costly process.
The outlines of our nucleated villages may have been drawn for us by Germanic settlers, whereas in the land of hamlets and scattered steads old Celtic arrangements may never have been thoroughly effaced.
And I have native steadsto me, The Newark Lee and Hanginshaw;[L312] I have mony steads in the forest schaw, But them by name I dinna knaw.
And I have native steads to me, The Newark Lee and Hangingshaw; I have monysteads in the Foreste shaw, But them by name I dinna knaw.
Horsley describes some ruined ramparts, called the Castle-steads near Chapel-houses, to the south of both Vallum and Wall.
It is traditionally said that part of the expiatory ceremony consisted in the demolition of the walls of his castle at Castle-steads (Cambeck-fort), and sowing the site with salt.
LXVII ‘And I have native steads to me, The Newark Lee and Hanginshaw; I have mony steads in Ettrick Forest, But them by name I dinna knaw.
I have monysteads in the forest shaw, But them by name I dinna knaw.
Albeit since Dallach's tidings of victory had come to the Dale, the dwellers in the steads of the country-side had left Burgstead and gone home to their own houses; so that there was no great multitude abiding in the Thorp.
Every toe was pointed with a claw, as though the steads were those of birds.
Without the door, on the trampled clay and mud, there were the steads of naked feet many and small.
Fits not to be overzealous; Steads not to work on the clean jump, Nor wine nor brains perpetual pump.
SORLI SAID: "Unmeet we should do As the doings of wolves are, Raising wrong each 'gainst other As the dogs of the Norns, The greedy ones nourished In waste steads of the world.
Yea, fifteen steads Would they give for me, And the load of Grani To have as a gift; But then spake Atli, That such was his will, Never gift to take From the sons of Giuki.
They unanimously decided that as it would desecrate their peace-steads to slay him, they would bind him fast so that he could work them no harm.
This morning are they fled away and gone, And in their steads do ravens, crows, and kites Fly o'er our heads and downward look on us, As we were sickly prey.
I bear no hatred, blessed man, for, lo, My intercession likewise steads my foe.
It nothing steads us To chide him from our eaves, for he persists As if his life lay on 't.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "steads" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
