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Example sentences for "claes"

Lexicographically close words:
clacked; clacking; clad; cladd; clads; claim; claimant; claimants; claime; claimed
  1. Claes kept watch all night to guard this sugary wealth of his; and when he was tired he asked Ulenspiegel to take his place, the which Ulenspiegel did right willingly.

  2. VI One day Claes caught a large salmon, and on the Sunday he and Soetkin and Katheline and the little Ulenspiegel had it for their dinner.

  3. Seeing Claes and Soetkin cross themselves, he made as though to leave them.

  4. So I conceived a hatred for the whole human race, and for this reason I betrayed the man Claes who was beloved by all.

  5. Fixing her eye on Claes and the pile of wood, she wagged her head and cried continually: "Fire!

  6. Then Soetkin would live again and come to earth once more, and Claes in heaven would laugh for joy.

  7. He also urged Claes to quit the bosom of our Holy Mother Church, and spake also many other impious words to which the only reply vouchsafed by Claes was this: 'The cruel brutes!

  8. But Ulenspiegel would stick to no one profession, and Claes told him that if he went on in this good-for-nothing way he would chase him out of the house.

  9. Claes offered him money, but he would only accept two caroluses with which to feed himself and find lodging on his way back home.

  10. Claes said: "I would counsel you to go every morning to Mass, that our Lord Christ may give you strength to chase away this phantom from hell.

  11. He embraced them both, and his mother was all in tears; but she accompanied him far on his way, and Claes went too, and many of the townsmen and townswomen.

  12. She and Claes laboured together in the field, yoking themselves to the plough as though they had been oxen.

  13. Then Claes asked them a second time if they would not pardon him, saying: "Truly I was always a hard-working man, and one that gained little for all his toil.

  14. But Claes and Soetkin were happy again, Claes working in the fields or looking after his business of charcoal-burning, while Soetkin attended to her home right valiantly.

  15. A savage came to Claes Smits, radenmaker or wheelwright, to trade beaver for duffel cloth.

  16. As Claes stooped down to take out the duffel from a chest, the Indian seized an axe which chanced to stand near by and struck the wheelwright on the neck, killing him instantly.

  17. Mrs. Roosevelt's father came of Huguenot stock, the name being originally Quereau; the first French immigrants of the family having migrated to New York in the seventeenth century at about the same time as Claes van Roosevelt.

  18. By this writing, he increased the misfortunes of the Claes family.

  19. He lived in Douai, was the valet of Balthazar Claes, and encouraged and aided his master in his foolish investigations, despite the extreme coldness of his own nature and the opposition of Josette, Martha, and the women of the Claes family.

  20. That is maistly what people wear fine claes of all kinds for.

  21. The laddie will be twice as bright, when he gets claes for his little arms and legs.

  22. He had a withert like luik, an' the verra diamonds in 's claes war douf like.

  23. The only ither claes I hae, are verra fishy, an' neither yersel' nor my leddy cud bide them i' the room aside ye.

  24. Bairns, swee that bouking o' claes aff the fire; ye'll burn it i' the boiling.

  25. He lived in a house of mean appearance, in that part where you may now see the brewery of Claes van Volxem.

  26. Some people's claes fit them, while other people's claes seem to hing on them.

  27. We hae eneuch to eat and drink, and some new claes for Sunday forbye.

  28. At the end, Claes himself dies, still absorbed in his chimera, and his last words are an endeavour to formulate the marvellous revelation which his disordered brain persuades him he has now received.

  29. Though Claes is, as much as Grandet, and perhaps more, an abnormal being, his sacrifice of every duty of life to the pursuit of the irrealizable is common enough in humanity.

  30. March water and May sun makes claes clear and maidens dun.

  31. A' the claes on your back was ance in clues.

  32. They hae clean claes to wear, a fine white collar every day, an' sae mony claes that they can put on a different rig-oot every day.

  33. Nae wonder she has braw claes to glaik aboot in; for they were gey easy paid.

  34. Thae's fine claes ye hae gotten; whaur did ye get that coat?

  35. My mither, tae, gaed to the kirk, and begged claes for me and my brithers and sisters frae guid folk, and said that my faither wasna weel and couldna work.

  36. Claes or no claes," said Jock, "it's him I got them frae.

  37. It's sma' time I hae for Bible readin' 'at canna get a steek peuten in my ain claes whiles.

  38. I, as I threw on part o' my claes in the twinkling o' an ee; 'what wretch can hae been sae wicked as to do it!

  39. Leave your claes i' this nar room, an' I'll hing 'em up to dry.

  40. Get in theer, I tell ye; an' tak' your weet claes off.

  41. He's a swell; that's what for she has her best claes on.

  42. I canna come the day, for my claes are a' at Maryhill,' said Liz.

  43. This befell upon Prince's-Island in Amsterdam, where Jesch Claes lived with her husband.

  44. And the ashes of Claes beat upon Ulenspiegel's breast.

  45. VII Upon the hulls of Zealand, on boyers, on crousteves, away goes Thyl Claes Ulenspiegel.

  46. Lamme and Ulenspiegel passed directly in front of the Townhall, before which Claes had been burned; the lips of Ulenspiegel trembled more, and his tears dried up.

  47. Then would Soetkin come back alive from limbo to this earth, and Claes would laugh in the sky: well canst thou do this.

  48. Going along and raising his eyes, he saw his father Claes in glory, by the side of God, in the sky where the clear moon was shining, and looked at the sea and the clouds and he heard the tempestuous wind blowing out of England.

  49. Ulenspiegel went into the kitchen, then into the bedchamber of Claes and Soetkin, and there he wept.

  50. And I loved but Money only, that was my darling, white or golden; to have Claes killed I found both profit and pleasure.

  51. The ashes of Claes were beating upon my heart," replied Ulenspiegel.

  52. Ulenspiegel replied: "I am the son of Claes that was burned at Damme; the ashes of the dead man beat upon my breast; I would fain kill Spelle, the murderer.

  53. While she spake, the ashes of Claes beat upon the breast of Ulenspiegel.

  54. Claes Carstensen's name appears variously as Claes Noorman, Claes Carstensen Noorman and Claes Van Sant, the latter being the Norwegian name Sande in Jarlsberg, where Claes Carstenson was born, 1607.

  55. They are Hans Hansen and Claes Carstensen (possibly originally Klaus Kristenson).


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "claes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.