Some of these rhymes had been carved there by my grandfather, for example these lines: "By horse and wain I've journeyed up and down, Yet found no match for this my native town.
First a long wain covered in by a tilt so high I trove that meseemed many a town gate might be over low to let it pass; and it was drawn by four right small little horses, with dark matted coats and bright, wilful eyes.
But follow, now, as I would fain go on, For quivering are the Fishes on the horizon, And the Wain wholly over Caurus lies, And far beyond there we descend the crag.
When from regarding them I had withdrawn, Turning a little to the other pole, There where the Wain had disappeared already, I saw beside me an old man alone, Worthy of so much reverence in his look, That more owes not to father any son.
A wain with his goods in, that followed, had an especial guard; though they seemed to be but mere patches spared from the farm, and I was assured, would have dropped their calivers and fled at the first onslaught.
Perhaps, Rector, you know which Charles's Wain is.
Hearing him, the voice in the wain chuckled grimly.
Their next speech was with a trooper, who overtook them, and wanted to know what they had in the wain for Werner.
So came he to the long green lane That leadeth to the ford, And saw the sickle by the wain Shine bright as any sword.
It was all true, sir, what Friend Wain said; for you had reason enough left to come hither, and did I not put you to bed and send for Dr.
Do you remember what Nicholas Wain said of him: 'When John Wynne puts down his foot, thou hast got to dig it up to move him'?
By and by I saw Nicholas Wain extend his hand to my father, who, looking steadily before him, made no sign of perceiving this intention to dismiss Friends.
Then I saw the tall, gaunt figure of Nicholas Wainrise slowly, a faint but pleasant smile on his severe face, while he looked about him and began: "Whether what ye have heard be of God I cannot say.
I was put, with eight others, in a great Conestoga wain without a cover.
When others sat them down to fear He did not so, but in the dewy night When the great wainwas turning round the pole He sought his kinsman Cato's humble home.
Not so deftly turns Curbing his steeds, his wain the Charioteer, While glows his dexter wheel, and with the left He almost touches, yet avoids the goal.
Let the frozen wain Demand your presence, or the torrid zone Wherein the day and night with equal tread For ever march; still follows in your steps The central power of Imperial Rome.
And Helene's heart was again flooded with emotion, as a few minutes before when Charles's-Wain had slowly begun to revolve round the Polar axis, its shaft in the air.
Charles's-Wain was slowly turning its shaft in the night.
The war-shaft and the milking-bowl I make, and keep the hay-wain whole.
But on July 24, as I learn, Charles's Wain was in the N.
On arriving at the mouth of the dingle, which fronted the east, I perceived that Charles's wain was nearly opposite to it, high above in the heavens, by which I knew that the night was tolerably well advanced.
The wain pursued its way; and following near In pure compassion she her steps retraced 555 Far as the cottage.
But otherwhere they dight the wain and wingèd wheels of Mars, Wherewith the men and walls of men he waketh up to wars.
And now had day-tide failed the sky, and Phoebe, sweet and fair, Amid her nightly-straying wain did mid Olympus wear.
The thunder of the wain and the singing voice of the coachman was in his ears.
The wain was coming at the cottage from the flank.
Round came the leader; the wheeler, slithering, jerking, almost swept off her legs, as the wain came on top of her.
Fifty yards away the wain lay wrecked on the greensward, the old white mare crumpled in the shafts.
A Grenadier was seen to fall with flapping tails, and another, and another; till the track of the thundering wain was strewn with men, who picked themselves up and pursued.
The wainleapt and swung and bounced along like a live thing.
She waylaid her father as he went to the Council of the Elders and cried to him: "Father dear, may I have the high wain and the mules to-day?
Swiftly her attendants prepared the wain and harnessed the mules.
Get up and ask thy father to order for thee the wain and mules to draw it, and we'll all go a-washing, thou and I and our favorite playmates, to that clear pool where the river pauses before it plunges into the sea.
Then the visionarywain disappeared; and the people, frustrated of their hope, unsatisfied and sad, returned unto their dwellings.
Now looking on this clutching hand, Trueman blinked and, saying no word, whipped his horses and the heavy wainrumbled and creaked on its way.
But while the poet avoids positive heresy, it is none the less true that much of his DA-wAin is not strictly religious in the Mua¸Yammadan sense and may fairly be called 'philosophical.
And at the same time, he must keep Mr. Wain from coming to the dormitory.
Mr. Wain recognised his visitor and opened the window.
He's sleeping over in Wain's part of the house, but I shouldn't be surprised if he nipped out afterWain has gone to bed.
For cat-shooting the Wain spinneys were unsurpassed.
Suppose Wain took it into his head to make a tour of the dormitories, to see that all was well!
What in the world had brought Wain to the dormitory at that hour?
Mike found his thoughts wandering back to the vigil he had kept with Mr. Wainat Wrykyn on the night when Wyatt had come in through the window and found authority sitting on his bed, waiting for him.
He and Wain never get on very well, and yet they have to be together, holidays as well as term.
Or the same bright thought might come to Wain himself.
Mr. Wain looked out into the garden with an annoyed expression, as if its behaviour in letting burglars be in it struck him as unworthy of a respectable garden.
Mr. Wain suspended tapping operations, and resumed the thread of his discourse.
He had taken the only possible course, and, if only Wain kept his head and did not let the matter get through officially to the headmaster, things might not be so bad for Wyatt after all.
Mr. Wain took up a pen, and began to tap the table.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wain" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: caravan; van; wagon
