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Example sentences for "swain"

Lexicographically close words:
swaggers; swaging; swagman; swagmen; swags; swains; swale; swales; swaller; swallered
  1. II Two Persons of More Importance, and why they went to the Beach in October; Miss Carlisle Heth, and how she met an unwelcome swain at Sea; how this Swain could swim enough for one.

  2. II Two Persons of More Importance, and why they went to the Beach in October; Miss Carlisle Heth, and how she met an Unwelcome Swain at Sea; how this Swain could swim enough for one.

  3. Scarce was he gone, but she awakes, And spies the shepherd standing by: Her bended bow in haste she takes, And at the simple swain lets flye.

  4. Or, when thy swain mishap shall rue, To share with him the pang of woe?

  5. Whence hangs, in the cool shade, the listless swain Lingering behind his disappearing wain.

  6. For jealousy by degrees Steals over the swain who sees The cheek he was slighting Another delighting, And so he is brought to his knees.

  7. Lowery started getting their names and they talked to Lieutenant Swain and told them what it was, and he said, "Go ahead and get their names and ask where they are going to be.

  8. Now, at the time Lowery arrived, was Lieutenant Swain there?

  9. Delia cries, While at her feet her swain expiring lies.

  10. Yet Horace could his vigour muster And would not till a later lustre f One single inch of ground surrender To any swain in Cupid's calendar.

  11. Through perils keen with me to go, Or when thy swain mishap shall rue, To share with him the pang of woe?

  12. On flowery herbs in some green covert laid, His bed the ground, his canopy the shade, He mixes with the bleating lambs his cries, While the rude swain his rural music tries, To call soft slumbers on his infant eyes.

  13. On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain.

  14. Caelia) say no more; For should the swain but one adore, That spite which broke his chains before, Would break the other's heart.

  15. To offer the apologies of a faithless swain was no more in his line than to be a faithless swain himself; the fleeting relics of Harry's authority had imposed a last uncongenial task.

  16. Swain Gifford, was formed within a year; Mr. Colman was the first president, and the first annual exhibition was held in the halls of the Academy of Design in 1867.

  17. O 'tis he the comely swain I slew Upon the duleful Braes of Yarrow.

  18. Before the House Mr. Swain spoke only under extraordinary emotion, and then he gained every ear.

  19. On the second he was well enough to sit up and swear, and to vow that Miss Swain was an angel; that he would marry her the very next week and his father Grafton were not such a stickler for family.

  20. He could scarce bide his time until Mr. Swain should have a coach and a seat in the country with the gentry.

  21. Swain sent me a message, and I killed a horse getting here from New York.

  22. This condition was so deftly rolled up in law-Latin that I did not understand a word of it until Mr. Swain stated it very briefly in English.

  23. I fled to Patty Swain for counsel, nor was it the first time in my life I had done so.

  24. Mr. Swain is but now left to go to Baltimore on some barrister's business.

  25. Now Mr. Swain had to take to his bed from the excitement.

  26. At this moment the door opened, and Mr. Swain came in hurriedly.

  27. Not long after this Mr. Swain bought the house in the Duke of Gloucester Street.

  28. There was no time to hoist Miss Swain over the wall, or to drive Miss Manners back upon the house.

  29. Mr. Swain had his negro, Romney, place chairs for us under the apple tree, and bring out pipes and sangaree.

  30. Here Mr. Swain and the captain glanced significantly at me.

  31. The Nymph her swain caressing, First and Second.

  32. Mr. Joseph Swain contributed to Good Words in 1888 some very interesting articles on Fred Walker, C.

  33. Swain (in the sixties at all events) projected works as Messrs.

  34. I borrowed this apparel of a shepherd swain in my father's service, whom I entrusted with my secret, and begged him to attend me in my pursuit of Don Fernando.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swain" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    address; beau; bodyguard; boor; caballero; cavalier; chaperon; chase; companion; conductor; convoy; court; date; duenna; escort; fellow; flame; follow; gallant; guard; love; man; peasant; philanderer; pursue; seducer; serenade; shepherd; spark; squire; sue; suitor; swain; usher; woo