So sleye arn clerkes olde, That I notwhos opinion I may holde.
I graunte wel that thou endurest wo 785 As sharp as doth he, Ticius, in helle, Whosstomak foules tyren ever-mo That highte volturis, as bokes telle.
For by myn hidde sorwe y-blowe on brede 530 I shal bi-Iaped been a thousand tyme More than that fool of whos folye men ryme.
And knew it wel, and whos it was him tolde, 1190 And fillen forth in speche of thinges smale, And seten in the window bothe tweye.
I beholde my norice Philosophie, in whos houses I hadde conversed and haunted fro my youthe; and I seide thus.
There was a mane whosname was Wylyam whiche was borne in Parise, a man very deuoute in many thyngs but pryncypally excedynge relygyous in searchynge for the relyques of all sayntes thorowowt all the world.
At our ladyes fette there is a precyous stone, whosname as it is nother in Greke nor Laten.
Nothynge but the greate wydnes of the place, and a sorte of bokes, that be bownde to pyleres wherein is the gospell of Nicodemus, and I cannat tell whos sepulkre.
Blere whos ey ye wyll hardely {with} your myst ¶ And kepe your werkes close there as in a chyst ¶ Saaf I wold desyre you spare Pollucyon.
This Alla king hath of this child greet wonder, And to the senatour he seyde anon, 'Whos is that faire child that stondeth yonder?
Sik lay the gode man, whos that the place is; (60) Bedrede up-on a couche lowe he lay.
For he shal nat taken kepe who sit there, but in whos place that he sitteth.
Commearp Creek and arrived at the Village of Tunnachemootoolt, the cheeif at whos lodge we had left a flag last fall.
By whos tenure amonges al other blessed spede and gracious tithynges.
Blessed are they whose vnrighteousnesses are forgyen / and whos synnes are couered.
They whos mynd (saithe he) was more readie and their faithe more stronge / suffered torments.
That the man doth die in the waters / if they be but half a handfull ouer, his heade / aswell as he ouer whos heade they are / ten / or twentie cubites.
Whos mouthes and eyes the tormẽtours did forthewith beate / to cause them to holde ther peace / and they wer with violence thrust forthe as though they hadd done the thinge.
Whos going to disgrace his country on the field of battle?
And inasmoche as myn husbond, whos soule God assoile, dyverse tymes, and specialy among other the day of the moneth, rehersed to me that the lyvelod whiche he had assigned to his ij.
Please it you to wete that myn awnte is dissesid, whos sowle God assoyll.
Item, he that shall speke with the fermours of Akthorp, whos name is Langham, he must inquere generally what mony he hath payd to all men sith Sir John Fastolff dyed, and see his billes of payment, and take therof a titelyng.
It was told me that ye have sold Sporle wood of a right credebill and wurchepful man, and that was right hevy that ye shuld be know of such disposicion, consederyng how your fader, whos sowle God assoyl, cherysshed in every manor his woodis.
At whos comynge to London, y^e Priour of Typtre in Essex, with other viij persones vp on London bregge in y^e gret prees weren crowsed to y^e deth.
Richard Beauchamp erle of Warwyk, there beynge lieutenaunt undir the kyng, on whos soule God have mercy!
From eyther party, right as any lyne: Upon whos hed now freshly done shyne, Two riche crownes, moost soverayne of plesaunce, To brynge in pees betwen Ingelond and Fraunce.
And anon after deyde kyng Richard in the castell of Ponfreyt, whos body was beryed at Langeley.
His name was Samaset; he tould them also of another Indian whos name was Squanto, a native of this place, who had been in England & could speake better English then him selfe.
John Tone whos body lyth berid under this tombe on whos soule Jhu have mercy a patr nostr & ave.
Some sayes that the stone was a sepulchre stone, and under it was buried a wicked man that had led a ill life, whos body the Dewill came on a tyme and carried away; whence the stone ever stinks in that maner since.
I'll say I cant hold her to an engagement with a man whos been in quod.
Do you feel you couldnt marry a woman whos been in prison?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
