The baron he stroked his dark brown cheek, And turned his head aside To wipe away the starting tear, He proudly strave to hide.
The baron he stroakt his dark-brown cheeke, And turned his heade asyde To whipe awaye the starting teare, He proudlystrave to hyde.
Hasan fared with her, drowned in the sea of solicitude and reciting verses like those above, whilst she strave to comfort him and exhorted him to patience; but he awoke not from his tristesse and heeded not her exhortations.
After which he awoke and not finding the bird strave with his yearnings till morning, when he said in himself, "There is no help but that I go to-day to some one who will expound to me this vision.
Now as he bespake her thus and strave to comfort her, what while she answered him not a syllable, lo!
The steeds they strave into their stables, The boys could'nt get them bound; The hounds lay howling on the leech, 'Cause their master was behind.
The baron he stroakt his dark-brown cheeke, And turnde his heade asyde, To wipe awaye the starting teare, He proudlystrave to hyde.
Said she, 'I am she who was on such a mountain, where the black dragon strave with me and would have forced my honour, but thou slewest him.
But the Wolf returned them no answer and redoubled in his hardness of heart and when they strave to turn him from his purpose he would not be turned.
But I strave against her on my own behalf, withal she overcame me and tyrannised over me by her contrivance.
Then we sat for rest till the rise of sun and when it shone we four sprang up and strave with our wayfare throughout the first day and the second and the third until the seventh.
One thing ah can say if me life Ta neet sud end it leease; Ah've doin my dewty an tha knaws Ah awlus strave for peease.
Yet, truly, it was as that he had no wotting that a rock may be thrown; for he strave only to come at me with the rock, that he should crush me, as with a monstrous club.
And she strave with me, and did carry and draw me that weariful way unto the raft.
I pray your Lordship, is any news come touching Sir Richard Grenville, and the plantation which he strave to make in the Queen's Highness' country of Virginia?
They `strave among themselves, saying, How shall this man give us his flesh to eat?
I have full knowledge of all concerning thyself and thy kith and kin; how thou art one of three brothers who all and each were daft for love of Princess Nur al-Nihar and strave to win her from one another to wife.
Then said she:--I have heard, O auspicious King, that the Darwaysh strave to stay Prince Parwez from his design and shewed him all the dangers on the way.
I count it were by reason they so strave in her heart.
It was strange to hear how the softness and the bitterness strave together in her voice.
T'coonsel Ah wad recommend Is all te strave ther lives te mend, An' persevere unto the end I' word an' deed.
He strave at the stone till he pulled it from its place, when there appeared beneath it a souterrain with a stair.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strave" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
