D iv b 1125 But be thou suer we nede no whyt thy counsell, For in ourselfe we have foresene remedy, Whyche thou shalt se.
Here is not a whyt of water, by my gowne, To washe our handes that we myght syt downe; Go and hye the, as fast as a snayle, And with fayre water fyll me this payle.
The Queen herself was apparelled in collours whyt and black, no other jewell or gold about her bot the ring that I brought her from the Queen's Majestie hanging at her breast, with a lace of whyt and black about her neck.
And whosoeuer doth not beare his crosse and comme after me / can not be my disciple.
Riht as a lyves creature Sche semeth, for of yvor whyt He hath hire wroght of such delit, That sche was rody on the cheke And red on bothe hire lippes eke; Wherof that he himself beguileth.
This briddes name was as tho Corvus, the which was thanne also Welmore whytthan eny Swan, And he that schrewe al that he can Of his ladi to Phebus seide; And he for wraththe his swerd outbreide, 800 With which Cornide anon he slowh.
And more-over, the wrecched swollen membres that they shewe thurgh the degysinge, in departinge of hir hoses in whyt and reed, semeth that half hir shameful privee membres weren flayn.
Whan ended was the lyf of seint Cecyle, Er we had riden fully fyve myle, 555 At Boghton under Blee us gan atake A man, that clothed was in clothes blake, And undernethe he hadde a whyt surplys.
His nekke whyt was as the flour-de-lys; Ther-to he strong was as a champioun.
Soothly a whyt wal, al-though it ne brenne noght fully by stikinge of a candele, yet is the wal blak of the leyt.
An anlas and a gipser al of silk Heng at his girdel, whyt as morne milk.
And ther-up-on he hadde a gay surplys As whyt as is the blosme up-on the rys.
And north-ward, in a touret on the wal, Of alabastre whyt and reed coral 1910 An oratorie riche for to see, In worship of Dyane of chastitee, Hath Theseus don wroght in noble wyse.
Amidde a tree fordrye, as whyt as chalk, As Canacee was pleying in hir walk, 410 Ther sat a faucon over hir heed ful hye, That with a pitous voys so gan to crye That all the wode resouned of hir cry.
Paraunter I was therto most able As a whyt wal or a table; 780 For hit is redy to cacche and take Al that men wil therin make, Wher-so men wol portreye or peynte, Be the werkes never so queynte.
Whyt was hir smok and brouded al before And eek behinde, on hir coler aboute, Of col-blak silk, within and eek withoute.
Gledes and bosardes weren hem by; Whyt molles and puttockes token hir place; And lapwinges, that wel conneth ly, This felowship han for-gerd hir grace.
Kat Moore was tried, and it was found undernethe her richt shoulder a little whyt unsensible spott'.
The Qwein of Fearrie is brawlie clothed in whyt linens, and in whyt and browne cloathes, &c.
William Bervie declared, that Robert Whythaving once stricken William Coke, Alison Dick his wife, came to the said Robert, and said, Wherefore have ye stricken my husband?
Hall suggests, the original phrase may have been: pomely whyt and grey; cf.
Forthe sche browght a whyt sted, As whyt as the flowyr in~ med, Ys fytte blac ase slo{n}.
Therfor~ the lady whyt ase swane To Torrant, here lord, sche went than~, 760 Here hert wase to hyme tane.
To the stabuAEsAEs tho he y{e}d, 720 There he fond a nobyAEsAEs sted, Wase comely whyt and grey.
I'll gie thee all these milk-whyt steids, That prance and nicher at a speir; With as mekle gude Inglis gilt, As four of their braid backs dow beir.
The xviij day of May there was sent to the shyppes men in whytcotes and red crosses, and gones, to the Queen's shyppes.
The xxj day of January came a new commandement to my Lord Mayre that he shuld make men redy in harnes with whyt cotes weltyd with green, and red crosses, by the xxiij day of the same moneythe to be at Leydenhalle to go forward.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whyt" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
