It was believed that if a present were given, especially if it were given to a sweetheart, and then asked back again, the giver would have a stye on the eye.
Again, a stye on the eye was removable by rubbing it with a wedding ring.
Nay, but to liue In the ranke sweat of an enseamed bed, Stew'd in Corruption; honying and making loue Ouer the nasty Stye Qu.
If the stye persists in progressing, bathing it in hot water will cause it to discharge pus and terminate much sooner.
A stye is a boil on the eyelid; it begins at the root of a hair as a hard swelling which may extend to the whole lid.
When one stye follows another it is well to have the eyes examined by an oculist, as eye-strain is often an inviting cause of the trouble, and this can be corrected by the use of glasses.
She ran forward into the darkness of the stye and put down the two piglets among the sucking tide of life that washed the flanks of the great old sow, but she could not stay there for ever.
It was true that this little girl had a stye in her eye, and two corkscrew ringlets, and lacked complete training in the use of the pocket-handkerchief.
It is still an article of belief in some persons that there is virtue enough in a gold ring to remove a stye from the eye, if it be rubbed with it.
If they came this way I'd have never a pig in my stye nor a copa of wine in my cellar.
To hasten the pointing of a stye apply hot compresses for fifteen minutes every two hours.
As ill health may be the cause, a tonic may be needed; glasses properly fitted should be worn and a boric acid eyewash used until long after the stye has disappeared.
From this point onward the journey through Borrowdale towards the foot of Stye Head Pass must necessarily be a hard and tiresome one, there being scarcely a traceable path through the huge bowlders.
Earlier in the evening Rotha had found occasion to go on some errand to the neighboring farm, and there she had heard that towards noon Ralph had been seen on horseback crossing Stye Head towards Wastdale.
It will be early morning when the coach gets there, and at daybreak you can walk over the Stye Pass to Shoulthwaite.
Tell me, first, if Ralph intended to be on Stye Head or Wastdale Head.
If he could but pass Brandreth before they reached the foot of the Black Sail he would have no fear of being seen, and, what was of more consequence, he would have no doubt of being at Stye Head before them.
They will ride fast, and, returning to Stye Head, hope to come upon Ralph from behind and capture him unawares.
The men wore plain attire, but a glance was enough to satisfy Willy that one of them was the taller of the two constables who had tried to capture Ralph on Stye Head.
Truly, it was Betsy, the mare which they had lost on that fearful day at the Stye Head Pass.
Following the course of the winding Derwent, they had passed the villages of Stonethwaite and Seathwaite, and in two hours from the time they set out from Shoulthwaite they had reached the foot of Stye Head Pass.
They know that if Ralph is at the top of Stye Head he will be on the lookout for the procession, and must see them as well as it.
He did--Stye Head--he left me to go there at daybreak this morning.
THE PIG-STYE On the top of a mountain There stands a pig-stye And the fighting of parents Has made the child cry.
Then from without Mehetabel heard the grunts of the sow in the stye that adjoined the house, and imparted an undesirable flavor to the atmosphere in it.
Within the fence were twelve styes, and in each stye were fifty sows with their young.
So she brought him to the stye where they were confined together, and opening the gate drove them all forth, a herd of bristly swine.
For example, in Servia, if a man has a stye on his eyelid he comes to the conclusion that his aunt is pregnant.
If thestye is on the upper eyelid, the child will be a male, if on the lower, a female.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stye" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
