Soon was each warrior Seen on his horse, But the Gaulish women Into wains were gotten; Then seven days long O'er a cold land we rode, And for seven other Clove we the sea-waves.
Then cried Atli, King of the Hun-folk, "Drive forth your wainsnow The slave is fast bounden.
Teams tugging wains carrying the heaviest cages containing unusually large elk, boars, bears or bulls, had had to go by way of Milan and had been put to it to keep their teams fit for a journey of over seven hundred miles.
Wains and wagons are passing with a rumble of wheels.
Big covered wains discharged dusty infantrymen, who, pausing only long enough to unbuckle their packs from their shoulders and throw them under the hoods of the wagons, went at a shambling half-trot through the meadow.
Late, with the rising moon, returned the wains from the marshes, Laden with briny hay, that filled the air with its odor.
All day long between the shore and the ships did the boats ply; All day long the wains came laboring down from the village.
Baggage wains began to creak by, great shapeless hulks rolling in on the black ocean of the night, with soldiers half asleep on top, and teamsters afoot, heads hanging drowsily and looped raw-hides trailing.
The convoy had halted, and presently Mount, Cade Renard, and I walked on along the ranks of resting troops and loaded wains until we came to where the light shone on a group of militia officers and riflemen.
Maybe Mrs. Boyle an' th' wains are as hungry as we are," Anna remarked.
The huge wains groaned under the weight of vessels of gold and silver, of ivory, and of the most precious woods of India.
All day long between the shore and the ships did the boats ply; 535 All day long the wains came labouring down from the village.
Late, with the rising moon, returned the wains from the marshes, Laden with briny hay, that filled the air with its odour.
Now David biddeth press on past the wains and the driven beasts, which were going very slowly.
After a while among the warriors came herds of neat and flocks of sheep and strings of horses, of the spoil which the host had lifted; and then wains filled, some with weapons and war gear, and some with bales of goods and household stuff.
About two hours before noon they got to horse again, and, being no more encumbered with the wains and the beasts, rode at a good pace.
There then stood the ring of men, each company under its banner; and beyond them stood the women and children and men unmeet for battle; and beyond them again the tilted wains and the tents.
Early in the morning, even before sunrise, had the wains full of women and children begun to come thither.
O we must fight for life and gear, For our beasts are spent and our wains are stayed, And the host of the Mountain-men draws near, That maketh all the world afraid.
Get on the wain, thou little fool--get on all the wains I own, and a plague upon thine eightpence, lad!
All that I would ask would be licence for my wains to stand in your court to-night while my fellows and I sup and lodge at the hostel.
So please you," answered the Fleming, "we were compelled to tarry, that we might load our wains with our bales of cloth and other property.
His pupils, deep in Scripture’s page, Followed behind the holy sage, And servants from the sacred grove A hundred wains for convoy drove.
With many an elephant and steed, And wains for draught and cars for speed.
How many tents, that sages screen, With wains in hundreds, here are seen!
Now when they had gone ashore, they went along a level road whereby wains were wont to draw down wood from the high hills to the town.
Thereafter he lifted a huge doorstone and weighty, and set it in the mouth of the cave, such an one as two and twenty good four-wheeled wains could not raise from the ground, so mighty a sheer rock did he set against the doorway.
Then I went to the window, and saw down below me The market-wains wending adown the dim street, And the scent of the hay and the herbs seemed to know me, And seek out my heart the dawn's sorrow to meet.
Come safely home to croft, bear fleeces white and soft, Then we'll send the wool-wains to fair London Town.
As early as 1100 Thomas Cole, the rich cloth worker of Reading, whose wains crowded the highway to London, had secured a charter from Henry I.
All day long between the shore and the ships did the boats ply; 535 All day long the wains came laboring down from the village.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wains" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
