But when I consider how euery thing hath his estimation by oportunitie, and that it was but the studie of my yonger yeares in which vanitie raigned.
How in the time of Charlemaine and many yearesafter him the Latine Poetes wrote in ryme.
Our Sauiour Christ assureth vs, that a daughter of Abraham was bound for 18 yeares by Sathan, with such a spirit of infirmitie, as bowed together, shee could in no wise lift vp herselfe, Luk.
God would not bee appeased for them fiftie yeares after he was dead, Ierem.
For this aduersary against whom we fight, is an old beaten enemy, sixe thousand yeares are fully compleat since the first time hee began to assault mankinde.
In this solemnitie they sacrificed the number of two hundred children, from foure to ten yeares of age .
As for the yeares of our Lord, and the kings, I haue set them downe according to such authors as seeme to be of best credit in that behalfe, as I doubt not but the learned and skilfull in histories it shall appeare.
For the computation of the yeares of the world, I had by Maister Wolfes aduise followed Functius; but after his deceasse, M.
So let us, which this chaunge of weather vew, Chaunge eke our mynds, and former lives amend; The old yeares sinnes forepast let us eschew, And fly the faults with which we did offend.
Then, by that count which lovers books invent, The spheare of Cupid fourty yeares containes, Which I have wasted in long languishment, That seem'd the longer for my greater paines.
Then shall the new yeares ioy forth freshly send Into the glooming world his gladsome ray, And all these stormes, which now his beauty blend*, Shall turne to calmes, and tymely cleare away.
Or shall we tie our selves for certaine yeares 120 To anie service, or to anie place?
They that in course of heavenly spheares are skild To every planet point his sundry yeare, In which her circles voyage is fulfild: As Mars in threescore yeares doth run his spheare.
Thus was Normandie lost cleerelie out of the Englishmens hands, after it had continued in their possession the space of thirtie yeares by the conquest of Henrie the fift.
Sidenote: This should be as Enguerant noteth two yeares after this present yere 19, to wit, An.
Is not the whole duchie of Aquitaine, by two hundred and od yeares peaceablie possessed by the kings of this realme, in one yeare and a little more, gotten out of our hands & seigniorie?
She was very religiously devoted when she was young; prayed by herself an hower together, and tooke sermons verbatim when she was but tenyeares old.
Bible through before she was full four yeares old; she could have sayed I know not how many places of Scripture and Chapters.
Why heere in Denmarke: I haue bin sixeteene heere, man and Boy thirty yeares Ham.
The commissioners granted full pardon and indemnity for all "acts, words or writeings done or spoken against the parliament" and any persons refusing to take the oath of allegiance to the new government were given "a yeares time .
Thus ended this Woman her miserable life, after shee had lived many yeares poore, wretched, scorned, and forsaken of the world.
Witt hath wrought that in you, that yeares and studie never set[t]led in the heads of our sagest doctors.
Martins are mad martirs, some of them burnt seauen yeares agoe, and yet aliue.
Primero, or Hazard, you shall sit as patiently (though you lose a whole halfe-yeares exhibition) as a disarmd Gentleman does when hees in the vnmerciful fingers of Serieants.
But hee workes closelie and sees all, hee learnd that of old Vydgin the cobler, who wrought ten yeares with spectacles, and yet swore he could see through a dicker of leather.
This sixteene yeares daily haue I liued vexed with disease: and might I liue sixteene more, how euer miserably, I should thinke it happie.
I will not faile, 'tis twenty yeares till then, I haue forgot why I did call thee backe Rom.
By my count I was your Mother, much vpon these yeares That you are now a Maide, thus then in briefe: The valiant Paris seekes you for his loue Nurse.
I tell thee Siracusian, twentie yeares Haue I bin Patron to Antipholus, During which time, he ne're saw Siracusa: I see thy age and dangers make thee dote.
But seuen yeares since, in Siracusa boy Thou know'st we parted, but perhaps my sonne, Thou sham'st to acknowledge me in miserie Ant.
This plauge is also related to have had its originall in Æthiopia, and from thense to have diffused itself into all the provinces of the Roman empire, and to have lasted fifteen yeares without intermission.
Fence Walls all built by the Farmers about 4 yeares since.
The bodye of one Fynerye wheele all newe, made within 2 yeares last past by the Farmers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yeares" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
