Th]is steede schall stonde no lenger stoken; Opynne vppe, and latte my pepul passe!
God moue lordis and bischops tostonde for knowing of His lawe!
Overmore the seyd William, atte commaundement of the seyd Duc of Norffolk, hath submytted hym tostonde to the ordinaunce of divers persones of alle the seyd matiers: ones at Leyceetre, the Wednesday next biforn Palm Soneday, the iiij.
And for as myche as I and other stonde feffed in the landes of Thomas Canon, which is in vareaunce betwene you and hym, if ye wylle do so myche as for your part chese ij.
And he be bathed in that blood, Baptised as it were, And thanne plastred with penaunce And passion of that baby, {354} He sholde stonde and steppe.
The kinde flatour can noght love Bot forto bringe himself above; For hou that evere his maister fare, So that himself stonde out of care, Him reccheth noght: and thus fulofte Deceived ben with wordes softe The kinges that ben innocent.
Wherof the parfit of here lawe Fro thanne forth hem was withdrawe, So that thei stonde of no merit, Bot in truage as folk soubgit Withoute proprete of place Thei liven out of goddes grace, Dispers in alle londes oute.
A king is holden overal To Pite, bot in special To hem wher he is most beholde; Thei scholde his Pite most beholde That ben the Lieges of his lond, For thei ben evere under his hond After the goddes ordinaunce To stonde upon his governance.
And in his constellacion Who that is bore in special, Of good will and of liberal He schal be founde in alle place, And also stonde in mochel grace Toward the lordes forto serve And gret profit and thonk deserve.
But sith I see I stonde in this disioint'; Shipman's Tale, B 1601.
I wolde have labored the contrary, by my sowle--that is the grettest othe that I may swere of my silff--they had never be nygh my maister in that case they stonde nowe.
I wolde have the dykes to stonde stylle, acordyng as John Osberne and I comonyd, I trow xij.
And thys I faifullie[126] wylle stonde to all, Gyff yonderr straungerr falleth to the grounde.
And therfor have I greet necessitee 1425 Up-on this queinte world tavyse me; For evermore we mote stonde in drede Of hap and fortune in our chapmanhede.
Now rekke I never to ben deed right here; 1090 Sith I stonde in your love and in your grace, No fors of deeth, ne whan my spirit pace!
I stonde lyk a clerk in my pulpet, And whan the lewed peple is doun y-set, I preche, so as ye han herd bifore, And telle an hundred false Iapes more.
The ferthe is, to stonde gladly to the award of hise sovereyns, or of him that is in hyer degree; certein, this is a greet werk of humilitee.
Therfor I make protestacioun That I wol stonde to correccioun.
But sith I see I stonde in this disioint, (411) I wol answere yow shortly, to the point.
Comen I wol, but yet in swich disioynte I stonde as now, that what yeer or what day That this shal be, that can I not apoynte.
Now herkneth this, ye han wel understonde, My goinge graunted is by parlement So ferforth, that it may not be with-stonde For al this world, as by my Iugement.
That was Frya his dei and to there stonde was et vrleden sjvgun wara sjvgun jer, that Fasta was anstald as folksmoder nei Fryas jerta.
I wold well God helpe me soo it grevyth me to here that ye stonde in no favour with jentylmen nor in no gret awe with the comowns.
And plese it youre good maistirshyp to wete that it is seyd here that my Lord Worcestre is lyk to be Tresorer, with whom I truste ye stonde right wel in conseit, with whiche God contynwe.
And Lot went out and spake vnto his sonnes in lawe which shulde haue maried his doughters/ and sayde: stonde vpp and get yow out of this place/ for the LORde will destroy the cite.
Stonde vp/ take thy wyfe and thy two doughters and that that is at hande/ lest thou perish in the synne of the cyte.
Lo I stonde here by the well of water and the doughters of the men of this citie will come out to drawe water: Now the damsell to whome I saye/ stoupe doune thy pytcher and let me drynke.
John Clyfton mad capytayn therof: and manye of the worthy men there of the citee ben fled into othere cuntres over the see, for drede, with as moche of there goodes as they myghte have with them, and lefte there faire places stonde stille.
Accordingly we find such labored explanations as the following, from The Crafte of Nombrynge: "Euery of these figuris bitokens hym selfe & no more, yf he stonde in the first place of the rewele.
Upon a pillere saw I stonde That was of lede and iron fine, Him of the sect Saturnine, The Ebraike Josephus the old, &c.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stonde" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
