This day have I kissed Orgelusé, who thinketh his death to win, I ween 'twas the kiss of Judas which all men count to him for sin!
If, with steadfast heart and manly, he thinketh on me no more, Poor maid, I must die of sorrow, and the love that to him I bore!
Then answered Gawain, 'Without service, who thinketh true love to win?
We know that 'as a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
As a Man Thinkethin His Heart, So Is He"--A Lesson in Character Building.
Also the Sultan thinketh like thyself that he hath demanded a prodigious dower in order to divert me from his daughter, whereas the fact is that he hath required of me a matter far less than I expected.
Yet, perhaps the old saying is true, "A man who is guilty of one evil to himself; thinketh that all men that talk together, do say somewhat of him!
The force of Love also is such, That fear and pain it doth expel; Love thinketh nothing over much; Love doth all earthly things excel.
This silly carpenter begins to quake: He thinketh verily that he may see This newe flood come weltering as the sea To drenchen* Alison, his honey dear.
And he saith that he thinketh surely she shall bear the kings of the earth, And maybe the best and the greatest of all who are deemed of worth.
He ha[th a] great desire to find out the norther passage for England from hence, and thinketh it an easie matter to be donne in respect the Emperour of this place offreth his assistance.
She thinketh and speaketh of him constantly and in her thoughts he standeth midway between a god and an elder brother, even as she doth call him.
Thinketh thou to ward off old age by some of my potions made from these roots I carry here, a bundle too heavy for an ancient crone like me to bear on her back?
And farthermore if it might like you to make the offer to my said lord's grace of such a sum of money as we were at a point for, my friends thinketh that I should surely be at an end.
Thanne comth drede to biginne to werke any gode werkes; for certes he that is enclyned to sinne, him thinketh it is so greet an empryse for to undertake to doon werkes of goodnesse.
Now I know that he will forfeit all eternal joy who thinketh not to serve the King of heaven and please the Lord.
And so doth every man who wickedlythinketh to strive with God, the Lord of might.
No longer have I any hope of light wherein He thinketh long to joy, in bliss among His angel hosts; nor may we ever bring this thing to pass, that we should change the purpose of Almighty God.
My steward goeth to and fro rejoicing in his children, and firmly thinketh in his heart that after me his sons shall be my heirs.
The persecutor, whatever the person's suffering is, if he afflicteth this person for a supposed good that he thinketh he hath or professeth, he make him suffer for righteousness' sake.
The Pharisee seeth no need of mercy, but thinkethhimself righteous before God.
For a man is not prepared to suffer, further than he thinketh the enemy may be permitted to go.
As a man thinketh so is he," and what he is determines what he attracts.
Heneage writes even now unto me," said Walsingham to Davison, "that he cannot yet receive any information who be the States, which he thinkethwill be a great maimer unto him in his negotiation.
Those who love him and obey his word will have their understanding quickened and their knowledge increased; but one who is careless or disobedient to the truth, will lose “even that which he thinketh he hath.
Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that which he thinketh he hath.
And them thinketh that the more pain, and the more tribulation that they suffer for love of their god, the more joy they shall have in another world.
And at certain hours, when them thinketh time, they say to certain officers that stand before them, ordained for the time to fulfil their commandments; Make peace!
And as men here that had an holy saint of his kin would think that it were to them an high worship, right so then, thinketh there.
The charity that thinketh no evil trusts in God and trusts in man.
That rich man is great who thinketh not himself great because he is rich; the proud man (who is the poor man) braggeth outwardly but beggeth inwardly; he is blown up, but not full.
Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
Oh, then do not add affliction to affliction; there is no man whatsoever that thinketh himself to stand surest but may fall.
Let he that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall," kept running in mine head.
Then he: "You do misapprehend me, Mistress Constance, if you think I would counsel a man to utter a falsehood, or feign to believe that which in his heart he thinketh to be false.
Verily, 'as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
Whence also me thinketh that thou hadst me in mind when thou spakest it.
But if both sides be with thee, mine advocate in tribulation and fear, but thine in joy and refreshment, me thinketh it is not a fair trial, but a tyrannical misuse of power, and a breaking of the covenants.
In the name of God, said the king, me for-thinketh of what I have said, for your brother is here within.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thinketh" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
