Was he not paid to grow cabbages, he asked, and where had he failed that we should accept cabbages from neighbours?
Swà sayd the Preyst, that swywyd thi Wyf: Swà lang he cald that Woman fayr, Quhill that his Barne wes made thi Ayre.
Speaking of Crystal of Seton, he says-- “It wes gret sorow sekyrly, That so worthy persoune as he Suld on sic maner hangyt be.
Wallace in stour wescruelly fechtand; Fra a Sotheroune he smat off the rycht hand: And quhen that carle off fechtyng mycht no mar, With the left hand in ire held a buklar.
A Bolle of átis pennys foure Of Scottis Monè past noucht oure; A boll of bere for awcht or ten In comowne prys sawld wes then; For sextene a boll of qwhete; Or fore twenty the derth wes grete.
Now turn the Psalms of David ower, And lilt wi' holy clangor; Of double verse come gie us four, And skirl up the Bangor.
Some people say he can be very pleasant--I never saw him so; but should rather judge him reserved, and gloomy, and capricious.
We have not been worthy of such a blessing; two infants have been successively removed, and we are now childless--God's will be done!
But I am surprised we do not hear the bell yet," said he, looking at his watch.
She did so, and Butler observed, "It was dangerous flattery in his Grace to tell a poor minister's wife that she was like a court-beauty.
The manuscript was a fair Italian hand, though something stiff and constrained--the spelling and the diction that of a person who had been accustomed to read good composition, and mix in good society.
But, sir, to be plain with you, I dare not use your counsel, unless I were enabled to see that it accords with the law which I must rely upon.
Back, beyond the railing and close to the crowd, a group of workmen about Wes Dicey is engaged in a heated argument.
He sees Wes Dicey who, with Jim King and Rome Masters, has just come in, right) What do you want?
If they're satisfied And think the new way's better than the old, And if they'll vote for it, Wes and his friends Will have no grouch.
And according to the promise he made the prince, it came to passe, to the no little comfort and admiration of all his subiects.
Mynea, [Footnote: Mynia is a town in the Island of Amorgos.
Kingdomes and iles, and have passed thorghe Tartarye, Percye, Ermonye [Footnote: Armenia.
And on the Scherethors [Footnote: Shrove Thursday.
There was somtyme a gret cytee and a gode, of Crystene men: but Sarazins han destroyed it a gret partye; and thei kepe that havene right welle, for drede of Cristene men.
She killed poor Deuce, the beautiful setter who had traveled the wild countries so long; she struck Wes and the Tenderfoot from their horses when finally they had reached a long-legged water tank; she even staggered the horses themselves.
The Tenderfoot and I stood on the log and heaved while Wes stood on the shore and pushed.
When we had loosened the pack, Wes would twist her tail.
We found Wes contentedly scraping away at the bearskins.
Shortly we saw Wespressed into service to hold the horse's hoof.
This leftWes to bring the horses home, which was tough on Wes, but he rose nobly to the occasion.
For instance, Wes and I decided to make buckskin from the hide of the latest deer.
I'd like to kick you in the stomach," Wes used to say; "you know too much for a horse!
Old friend Etia came also, and I was delighted to see him.
It was so nice to have left that everlasting jungle; to see prairie land and the wide expanse of the Atlantic; to look at the sun as it disappeared, apparently under the water.
They have many fetiches, but they want one from your hair and brain.
Bendyt in gret by then wes sche, That till the sow wes ewyn set.
Was never man made more honest chift, His living for to win: Thair wes not, in all Liddesdail, That ky mair craftelly could steil, Whar thou hingis on that pin!
According to the prior of Lochlevin, he was desperately wounded; but "Thare rays a welle gret renowne, "And gretly prysyd wes gud Gordown.
He ne hoeld nouther wey ne strete, For himwes loth men to mete; Him were levere meten one hen, Than half an oundred wimmen.
A gret stane this Kyng than had, That fore this Kyngis sete wes made, And haldyne wes a gret Jowale Wytht-in the Kynryk of Spayne hale.
Bernardson swor on the Hirdmane Stein before owre Lorde ye Erle off Orknay and the gentiless off the cuntre, that thay bystude saw and onherde, and for witnesse wes tane quhene that Thos.
Thair maister wes ane rud man as thay wer, and tuke bot ane litill part thairof.
Als sone as I wes advertist thairof, I maid sic diligence, that ane part of it wes brocht to me at Abirdene.
The maist pairt wes destroyit afore it come to ony wise mannis eris; of quhome may be verifyit the proverb,--'The sow curis na balme.
It is allegit that the Thane of Glammis set thir tua stanis quhen that cuntrey wes all ane greit forrest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
