Sidenote: The secrete conveighyng of Letters; The defence against a breach; How the antiquitie gottounes by muining under grounde.
And thei ought to warde those places, whiche thei thinke, that maie bee hurt least: for that many tounes have been loste, when thenemie assaulteth it on thesame part, where thei beleve not possible to be assaulted.
Yet ther hath ben seen many tounes that have ben sacked within this xxv.
The old Capitaines have sought to gette Tounes by treason, corruptyng some within, but thei have used divers meanes.
Simon of Athens set fire in a night on a Temple, whiche was out of the toune, wherefore, the tounes menne goyng to succour it, lefte the toune in praie to the enemie.
I sholde han also blame of every wight, My fadres graunt if that I so withstode, Sin she is chaunged for the tounes goode.
So longe here lecoun thei recorden, Til ate laste thei acorden Be nihtes time forto wende Al one out fro the tounes ende, 1380 Wher was a welle under a Tree; And who cam ferst, or sche or he, He scholde stille there abide.
A somnour is a renner up and doun With mandements for fornicacioun, (20) And is y-bet at every tounes ende.
Al newe and fresh, at every tounes ende, (600) So that ye offren alwey newe and newe Nobles and pens, which that be gode and trewe.
Meins man when he brought me the confections the nixt day after the tounes cherry feast to the exchequer, 15 pence.
Its held amongs the greatest tounes of England after London.
After them came the tounes men in armes; in a knot of whom went a young fellow who represented the Maid of Orleans, clad in the same very habit, girt wt that sam very sword wt which the Maid beat the Englishes.
Betuixt Orleans and Blois of tounes on the river we saw first Merug,[79] then Baniency.
Al the Capital tounes of provinces of France are frie from Taille.
In our journey we passed severall brave tounes as Bulloigne, Monstrul, Abewill, Poix, Beauveaus, wheir is the most magnificent church I had ever then sien.
And nota, for evermo, of 2 citees or of 2 tounes, of whiche that o toun aprocheth more toward the est than doth that other toun, truste wel that thilke tounes ban diverse meridians.
And yif so be that two tounes have y-lyke meridian, or oon meridian, than is the distance of hem bothe y-lyke fer fro the est; and the contrarie.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tounes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
