Or who hath seene a mournefull Doe lament For her young Kid, in peecemeale torne and rent, And by the poore remainders sit and mourne, For loue of that which (out alas) is gone?
In hast he ran, but ran in vaine God wot, Thisbe he sought, faire Thisbe found he not, And yet at last her long loue robe he found All rent and torne vpon the bloody ground.
And do assure you that if he had ben below, as he was vpon the rampire of the Walles, they had tornehim into so many pieces, as he had made Gobbets of the Lord Nicholas body.
Ah Fayre amonges the Fayrest, truely the fearefull Beast which with the bloudy Hare Houndes was torne in pieces, is not more Martired, than my heart deuided in Opinions vppon thyne Affection.
I, I, tis I, Whose soule is torne in peeces till I send This Harlot home.
Nay, what can you say for him, hath he not Broacht his owne wives (a chast wives) breast and torne With Scithian hands his Mothers bowels up?
O brother your owne Conscience knowes you wrong me: Ile rather suffer on the Gallow Tree Then thus be torne in pieces.
Her shroudes are torne to pieces & her tacklings to raggs.
Taynted and torne in honour must I perish, And must theis silver curles, ô you unthanckfull, Theis emblemes of my frostie cares and travells For you and for the State, fall with disgraces?
We could nott blow up Farnhurst, but have so torne ytt with laborars, as ytt wer as goode ley flatt.
I-wys it were tyme for to torne The pye, for y-wys it doth borne.
No I had rather be tornein pieces and flaine, No man hath my faith and trouth, but Gawyn Goodlucke, 35 And that before Suresby dyd I say, and there stucke, But of certaine letters there were suche words spoken.
And it was now good time to leaue, for as the men were well wearied, so their shooes and clothes were well worne, their baskets bottoms torne out, their tooles broken, and the ships reasonably well filled.
The second day of September in the morning, it pleased God of his goodnesse to send vs a calme, whereby we perceiued the Rudder of our ship torne in twaine, and almost ready to fall away.
And hereof both the torne ships, and the forwearied bodies of the men arriued doe beare most euident marke and witnesse.
Now torne we ayein to Troilus, That resteles ful longe a-bedde lay, And prevely sente after Pandarus, 1585 To him to come in al the haste he may.
Now lat hir wende un-to hir owne place, And torne we to Troilus a-yein, That gan ful lightly of the lettre passe 220 That Deiphebus hadde in the gardin seyn.
And by my thrift, my wending out of Troye 1630 Another day shal torne us alle to Ioye.
O pitous, pale, and grene Shal been your fresshe wommanliche face For langour, er ye torne un-to this place.
Such now he marcheth to this man forlorne, 6 And left to losse: his stalking steps are stayde Vpon a snaggy Oke, which he hadtorne 8 Out of his mothers bowelles, and it made His mortall mace, wherewith his foemen he dismayde.
But on the other side the beautie of the Greeke, was still before his eyes, and the minde he had to abandon her, gaue him suche alarme, that he seemed at that instante as though his hart had been torne out of his belly.
But the Lorde (which well knew that flatterie many times serued the torne of diuerse, to beguile foolish husbands of their faire wiues) that he might not seme vngrateful, sent him also certain straung things.
This sentence seemed cruel to the fathers, and almost had set the people together by the eares, whoe woulde haue torne him in peeces, had not the Tribunes appointed a day for his appearance.
This is the eight score house (quoth he) that hath done homage vnto me, and here I will preuaile, or I will bee torne in pieces.
Basilisco oaths, that would have torne a roring-boyes eares in a thousand shatters.
Their ugly ornaments are the bloody staines Of ragged limbs, torne sculls, and dasht-out braines.
For Suffolkes Duke, may he be suffocate, That dims the Honor of this Warlike Isle: France should haue torne and rent my very hart, Before I would haue yeelded to this League.
Potter, y prey the tell thou me;" 220 "A hundred torne y haffe schot with hem, Under hes tortyll tree.
Now wol I torne un-to Arcite ageyn, (630) That litel wiste how ny that was his care, Til that fortune had broght him in the snare.
So short is life, that every peasant strives, In a torne house, or field, to have three lives.
Apollo, which stood in the citie of Troinouant, and there was torne in péeces after he had ruled the Britaines by the space of 20 yeares.
Mulmutius, who not onelie subdued such princes as reigned in this land, but also brought the realme to good order, that long before had béene torne with ciuill discord.
For if hire (Fortune's) whiel stynte any thinge to torne Thanne cessed she Fortune anon to be.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "torne" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
