If a man commit a rape upon a ceorl's female slave, he must pay bot to the ceorl of 5 shillings and a wite [fine to the King] of 60 shillings.
So may a man the sothe wite and knowe, That pees is good for every king to have; The fortune of the werre is ever unknowe, 290 But wher pees is, ther ben the marches save.
Abyd,' quod I, 'ye been a hasty oon, I let you wite it is no litel thing.
And yet a poore man, that ye wite wel or supposen in certain to have no good of, ye ne geve 330 no such letters, though he be a better man to god than suche a riche man; nevertheles, this poore man doth not recche therof.
So foloweth it, that if ech of these orders answered to this question as thou doest, three were false and but oon trew; and yet no man shulde wite who that were.
Why make ye men beleve, that he that is buried in youre 100 habit shall never come in hell; and ye wite not of youre-selfe, whether ye shall to hell, or no?
He lifted a stane sax feet in height, He lifted it up till his right knee, And fifty yards and mair I'm sure, I witehe made the stane to flee.
Its leeder is as clene and wite as new milk, and all Hay-dies culdnt find a flaw in the platform on wich we stand.
Well, put your hand to it, and you'll behold the man wot my in-flooence is going to carry to the Wite House.
On xammenashun I found a feerful lot of littlewite lumps all over my bodie.
We all know you was maid of rags, and them rags might once have bean in the mazey, lacey laberinths of wite linnin wot audashusly pressed 'gainst the tender form of Lillyan, the dudine.
Dar ain' nuttin er de po' wite trash in de look er him, is dar?
The inmates, a wite and his wife, seemed to know the seid woman, and accepted the presence of Egwina without question.
With thise three teynes, which that we han wroght, To som goldsmith, and wite if they been oght.
And here I ryde about my purchasing, To wite wher men wolde yeve me any thing.
That that I spak, I seyde it in my bourde; And wite ye what?
Virginius cam, to wite the Iuges wille, 175 And right anon was rad this cursed bille; The sentence of it was as ye shul here.
I saw the place on my gwan'fahvah's head where the Yankee bullet hit him, wite over his eye!
You just wite till you see the ballet at Vere Street, Lambeth--we'll knock 'em!
E said 'e'd wite for me ahtside the doors; I wonder if 'e's there.
Ac wite ge thaet n['a]n man ne maeg fullice embe God sprecan, thonne we furdhon tha gesceafta the he gesceop ne magon asmeagan, ne areccan.
Bidh nu w['i]slicor thaet gehwa dhis witeand cunne his geleafan, weald hwa dha micclan yrmdhe gebidan sceole.
Sir Clod is a great genus, and always was--he was much above his calling when he was a Hatturney--he was made to ride on a wite oss afore the King.
I have got Tommus Wite to rite the redress, not honely because he rites a good and, but to show im thatt we hare frends.
For this fourteen year I never discovered one thing that I have used, and that may I now wite my shame and my disadventure.
Sir Palomides, said Sir Tristram, ye wite me with wrong, for had ye done as I did ye had won worship.
I flater noght, that maywite every wight; For this day in hir servise shal I dye; But grace be, I see hir never with ye.
And this thing wot I wel, certeyn, If I speke ought to peire hir loos, Your court shal not so wel be cloos, That they ne shal wite it atte last.
Thus from his ladder we him take, And thus his freendis foes we make; But word ne wite shal he noon, Til alle his freendis been his foon.
Of al thy state thou shalt him sey, And aske him counseil how thou may Do any thing that may hir plese; For it to thee shal do gret ese, 2870 That he may wite thou trust him so, Bothe of thy wele and of thy wo.
And further over, if ye suffre this, 85 Your renoun is fordo than in a throwe; Ther shal no man wite wel what Pite is.
For witethou wel, withouten were, 2740 In thank that thing is taken more, For which a man hath suffred sore.
Sholde nevere right riche man, {382} That lyveth in reste and ese, Wite what wo is, Ne were the deeth of kynde.
If no nyght ne weere, No man, as I leeve, Sholde neverewite witterly What day is to meene.
For-thi God of his goodnesse The firste gome Adam Sette hym in solace, And in sovereyn murthe; And siththe he suffred hym synne, Sorwe to feele, To wite what wele was Kyndeliche and knowe it.
Truthe, {377} "And am wendynge to wite What this wonder meneth.
Shal no wight wite witterly Who shal have the maistrie Er Sonday aboute sonne risyng;" And sank with that til erthe.
Ne schal ihc neure habbe blis, Fort þ{a}t ihc witewhat þe is.
His second witewas the daughter of Sir William Napier, the historian of the Peninsular war, whose Life he edited.
Theodore soon after married his second wite Terunish, the proud daughter of the late governor of Tigre, who felt neither affection nor respect for the upstart who had dethroned her father, and the union was by no means a happy one.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wite" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
