Then was Môtsognir created greatest of all the dwarfs, and Durin second; there in man's likeness they created many dwarfs from earth, as Durin said.
Then was it proved, when the hero had ridden to see me, to woo me, how the warlike chief whilom held sacred his oath towards the youthful prince.
Then was no option for the bold warriors, the sentence longer to delay.
Then was there a dragon great and grim, Full of fire and also venim, With a wide throat and tuskës great, Upon that knight fast 'gan he beat.
Then was I as fain as fowl of fair morrow, And gladder than the gleeman that gold hath to gift, And asked her the highway where that Clergy[62] dwelt.
He then was youth of comely semelikede, And he had made a maiden's heart to bleed.
Then was a touching display of confusion and excitement.
In the gorge in which he then was, Souk knew ten men were as good as a hundred, and he was in no hurry to leave the friendly shelter of the rocks.
Then was I-e-tan seized with a violent remorse, and exhibited the redeeming traits of repentance and inconsolable grief, and of greatness, in the very constancy of the absorbing sentiment.
Then was a shout that Alsi might have heard in his hilltop palace, for full four paces beyond the strong porter's cast it flew, lighting with a mighty crash, and bedding itself in the ground where it lit.
Then was a howl that was strange, and with it voices which seemed to let some light on the matter.
As yet had he known only tears, and the melancholy of the Hebrews, together with the hatred of the good and just--the Hebrew Jesus: then was he seized with the longing for death.
When he was young, that God out of the Orient, then was he harsh and revengeful, and built himself a hell for the delight of his favourites.
When however he again came to himself, then was he pale and trembling, and remained lying; and for long he would neither eat nor drink.
Jdt 10:18 Then was there a concourse throughout all the camp: for her coming was noised among the tents, and they came about her, as she stood without the tent of Holofernes, till they told him of her.
I think it was with the hurry of business I then was in, and perpetual company that resorted to us of all qualities, some for kindness and some for their own advantage.
I sat me down in the next room, full sadly to consider what I should do, desiring God to help me in so just a cause as I then was in.
Then was brought to him, one possessed with a devil which was both blind and dumb, and he healed him, insomuch that he which was blind and dumb, both spake and saw.
Then was fulfilled, that which was spoken by Ieremy the prophet, saying: and they took xxx.
Then was the real gold Spendthrift Summer flung; Then was the real song Bird or Poet sung!
Then was he turned into a snowy swan, 2 To win fair Leda to his lovely trade: Leda > (Daughter of Thestius, a king of Sparta.
Then was he exceeding wroth, for he knew that he had been beguiled, and he was in an evil case, left alone on an Isle that he knew not, a waste and desolate land, where it seemed most like he should die of famine.
Then was I sought and set in stocks, In Newgate I lay under locks, If I said aught, I caught many knocks.
And when he was gone, then was I fain: For and I had not excused me the better, I know well I should have danced in a fetter.
Har gave answer: Then was he with the frost-giants.
Then was heard a great crash, which was followed by a loud screaming.
They stood in the hall, Their hands were resting; Then was it the first Word that he spoke: Sleep not longer Than the cuckoo on the hall, Or only while A song I sing: Frode!
There is nothing very extraordinary in this fact: no youth of the age I then was, can be expected to be more than one thing, and this was the thing I happened to be.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "then was" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
