Amongst other learned and vertuous prelats of the Scots, there chanced [Sidenote: Aidan.
Middleangles, calling from thence that vertuous man Cedda, and assigning vnto him another priest to be his associat, sent them vnto the prouince of the Eastsaxons, there to preach the christian faith vnto the people.
Such was the end of that vertuous prince king Oswald, being cruellie slaine by that wicked tyrant Penda.
Such a one he was, to be breefe, as bishop Aidan gessed that he should not long continue in life, for that the Northumbers were not woorthie of so good and vertuous a gouernour.
Dated the tenth before the kalends of August, in the reigne of our souereigne lord Mauricius most vertuous emperor, the fourtenth of his empire.
No wonder that they gave "just offence to all vertuousand well disposed persons in the town.
It was called An Introductorie for to learne to rede, to prononce and to speke French trewly, compyled for the rigid high excellent and most vertuous Lady Mary of Englande, daughter to our most gracious soveraign, Lorde Kyng Henry the Eight.
This First Part of the French grammar, which is dedicated to "the Worshippfull, worthie and vertuous gentleman, M.
For satisfied am I, that I haue manifested to the world the greatnesse of my loue, which was so ample as euer king could beare to vertuous Queene: and so farewell.
Letters of the Philosopher Plutarch to the noble and vertuous Emperour Traiane, and from the sayd Emperour to Plutarch: the lyke also from the sayd Emperour to the Senate of Rome.
Haue you forgotten the good examples recited vnto me of vertuous dames that haue resisted foolish loue?
Whose vertuous loue and godlye continuance of the same, is worthye to bee sounded by Trompe of fame to the extreame partes of the Earth.
See now whether pure Feare, and entire Cowardise, doth not make thee wrong this vertuous Gentlewoman, to close with vs?
Vertuous and Holy, chosen from aboue, By inspiration of Celestiall Grace, To worke exceeding myracles on earth.
Husband, Serves all the vertuous thoughts, and chast behaviours Without their uses?
She is a vertuous and a reuerend Lady, It cannot be that she hath done thee wrong Adr.
Vertue is no horne-maker: and my Rosalind is vertuous Ros.
Takes Vertuous Copies to be wicked: like those, that vnder hotte ardent zeale, would set whole Realmes on fire, of such a nature is his politike loue.
Deceit should steale such gentle shape, And with a vertuous Vizor hide deepe vice.
You haue a daughter call'd Elizabeth, Vertuousand Faire, Royall and Gracious?
Now sparckle forth thy beams, thou vertuous Jemme, And lo[o]se these strong enchantments.
Syrha, no more; you shall goe home with me And learne to laughe at fortune; I have there A worthye matche and vertuous wife for thee And she shall pyle up all your flatterye: The courte hath no use for it.
Tutt, a prosperous synne is nowe a vertuous acte; Let not that starte you.
I have wed thy Sister, who hath vertuous thoughts Enough for one whole family, and it is strange That you should feel no want.
A Lady Sir, That bears the light above her, and strikes dead With flashes of her eye; the fair Evadne your vertuous Sister.
The wyse Poets long time heretofore, Vnder merrie Comedies secretes did declare, Wherein was contained very vertuous lore, With mysteries and forewarnings very rare.
Written by the right noble, vertuous and learned Sir Philip Sidney, Knight.
By Castor and Pollux, turned into a signe in heaven called Gemini, is signified, that vertuous and godly persons shall be rewarded after life with perpetuall blisse.
The master of the house had a sonne instructed in good literature, and endued with vertuous manners, such a one as you would desire to have the like.
How officers of the law shulde be chosen, welle disposid and temperate men, vertuous in condicion, and they to be protectid by lordis and noble men of birthe.
How officers of the law shulde be {xvi} chosen, welle disposid and temperate men, vertuous in condicion, and they to be protectid by lordis and noble men of birthe.
Zuar, a sober and a vertuous Prince, Who never gave least cause of an offence.
From's Father he fought not their Hearts to steal, Nor head a Faction mov'd by blinding Zeal; But like a vertuous and a pious Son, Sought all occasions of Offence to shun.
Gower, describing the star Pleiades, says-- "Eke his herbe in speciall The vertuous Fenel it is.
Only a sweet and vertuous soul, Like seasoned timber never gives, But when the whole world turns to cole, then chiefly lives.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vertuous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
