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Example sentences for "lyen"

Lexicographically close words:
lydies; lydy; lye; lyed; lyeing; lyes; lyest; lyeth; lyfe; lyff
  1. Youre freindis have lyen in the Frith now xv.

  2. They werena weel lyen down, And scarcely fa'n asleep, Whan up and stands she Fair Annie, Just up at Willie's feet.

  3. A man to lyen hath gret disese, Which may not slepe ne reste in ese.

  4. Fortune, That is to lyen ful comune, The false trayteresse, pervers, God wolde I coude clepe hir wers!

  5. And thei lyen alle in the watre, saf the visage, for the gret hete that there is.

  6. And the wommen haven no schame of the men; but lyen alle to gidre, syde to syde, tille the hete be past.

  7. As wel thou mightest lyen on Alceste, That was of creatures, but men lye, That ever weren, kindest and the beste.

  8. My poor study having lyen that way, it may prove possible that my weak assistance may be of use in this matter, in a more serious fashion, then an Epithalamion.

  9. They wenten forth in hire wey, With many wise tales, And hadden leve to lyen Al hire lif after.

  10. And loven hem that lyen on us, And lene hem whan hem nedeth, And do good ayein yvel, God hymself it hoteth.

  11. Thus shul ye speke and bere hem wrong on honde; For half so boldely can ther no man Swere and lyen as a womman can.

  12. Ne our materes that lyen al fixe adoun, Mowe in our werking no-thing us avayle.

  13. For the victories of batailles that been in this world, lyen nat in greet nombre or multitude of the peple ne in the vertu of man; / but it lyth in the wil and in the hand of our lord god almighty.

  14. It wolde make mannes brayn · to lyen in his hood.

  15. Lete we now this false knight · lyen in his care, 615 And talke we of Gamelyn · and loke how he fare.

  16. He also again refers to "the saide Church of Stopford" (Stockport) and the grave therein where the bodies of his father and mother "lyen buried.

  17. They were not weel lyen down, And no weel fa'en asleep, When up and stood May Margaret's brethren, Just up at their bed feet.

  18. After he had lyen some 4 or 5 dayes in prison he was set at freedome, having first acknowledged a wrong and craved my Lord Newbayth pardon in presence of the haill Lords and Advocats on the 10 of November.


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