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Example sentences for "meate"

Lexicographically close words:
measurer; measurers; measures; measuring; meat; meates; meatless; meats; meatus; meaty
  1. When we putt ye kettle on, ye wild man who had captured me, gave me of meate to eat, & told me a story.

  2. As for meate we wanted none, as we had a store of staggs along ye watter-side.

  3. If they canot forbeare meate during y^e space of their fitte, and faste out their xxiiij.

  4. Sorel, & cast it vpon your meate as pepper, [Rx] seons citri.

  5. By noone[E444] see your dinner, be readie and neate, let meate tarrie seruant, not seruant his meate.

  6. Grind mault for drinke, See meate do not stinke.

  7. Kepe two bease, and one sow, and liue at thine ease: and no time for nede, bye thy meate but thou please.

  8. Beefe is a good meate for an Englysshe man, so be it the beest be yonge, and that it be not kowe-flesshe; for olde beefe and kowe-flesshe doth ingender melancolye and leporouse humoures.

  9. Some corneth, some brineth, some will not be taught, where meate is attainted, there cookrie is naught.

  10. But for labouring men it is conuenient according to that Latine prouerbe, grosse meate for grosse men.

  11. What he meant by it I can not well tell; but I hope, that in the seed time and the free planting of the gospell, the meate of the labourer shall not be diminished and withdrawen.

  12. Then Mistress Rokeby[89] came anon, And for her brought shee meate full soone, The sew came her unto.

  13. The greatnes of the store doeth make the prices lesse, Besides in all the land they know not how good meate to dresse.

  14. They prefer it before other flesh, because the meate is stronger (as they say) then Beefe, Mutton, and such like.

  15. Yet such prayses are but like a messe of meate sett upon a dead mans grave which he cannot tast, or like a light behind a mans back which cannot him direct.

  16. Hee needes no napkin for his handes, His fingers for to wipe; He hath his kitchin in a box, His roast meate in a pipe.

  17. The third day they remained in armor, but yet absteining from battell, sate still, in taking meate and drinke to relieue their [Sidenote: Twentie thousand dead bodies.

  18. What he meant by it I can not well tell; but I hope, that in the séed time and the frée planting of the gospell, the meate of the labourer shall not be diminished and withdrawen.

  19. And he serued them for good meate many dayes.

  20. If thou wouldest needes know, the broyled meate that I had was a piece of such a mans buttocke.

  21. This Caffro I gave lodging to in the English howse with meate and drinke, because he was servant to such a master.

  22. Soe, upon his humble petition and by generall consent, we took hym into the English howse and geve hym meate and drink till we can otherwais provide to send hym for his cuntrey.

  23. He entertayned us kyndly at dyner and sent us meate for supper, and gave me a wacadash (or short cattan) from his side; and sent his men to shew us his sonns howse newly built, being a very fayre place.

  24. Than went they to theyr suppere Wyth suche meate as they had; And thanked God of ther fortune: They were both mery and glad.

  25. She feched hym meate and drynke plenty, Lyke a true wedded wyfe; And pleased hym with that she had, Whome she loved as her lyfe.

  26. Now feche us meate and drynke ynough, And let us make good chere.

  27. After I gott into the Citty my first care was to refresh my selfe with meate and drinke, and then I sought for a ship.

  28. To that end he devised this pollisie, to perswade me to sitt downe to supper with him and the rest, and to take some refresh of meate and drink, wherby my spirits might be revived againe.

  29. And the meate being set vpon the table, and he required to sit down, he perceiued a woman comming forth behind the hanging, which was so beautifull as might be seene, sauing that her head was all shauen, and apparelled in Almaine blacke.

  30. He borrowed twelve friers frockes or cowles, and in the euening went downe to the hauen, and hired twelue mariners, and placed them in a backe house, geuing them so much meate and drinke as they woulde eate.

  31. The Meate which shee vsed for hir repaste, was either the hanch of a Wylde Bore, or else the syde of a Deere.

  32. Whether it sharpens or flattens the appetite to meate ?

  33. The butchers doe make skewers of it, because it doth not taint the meate as other wood will doe: from whence it hath the name of prick-timber.

  34. She toke the rompe in her hande, and bycause she sawe the abbot and other wete their meate in the sorell sauce, she sayde: my lorde, I pray the gyue me leue to wete myn rompe in thy grene sauce.

  35. As he mette on a daye one or two of his acqueyntaunce, he desyred them home with him to dyner: but meate had he none, nor money.

  36. Whan the vsurer shulde go to dyner, the potte and meate was gone, wherfore he alto chydde his mayde.

  37. At laste, the saltenes of the meate made her to thyrste so sore, that she muste nedes drynke.

  38. They have great tabacco pipes of yellow copper, and pots of earth to dresse their meate in.

  39. It is a wonder to sée how so much meate ready dressed coulde be spent.

  40. And twentie women slaues, to serue to make breade and dresse meate for y^e whole army.

  41. The greate store of sundry kyndes of fruytes is maruellous which are there solde, bothe gréene and ripe: there is one sorte as bigge as Almondes called Cacao, whiche is both meate and currant money.

  42. They brought also bread and meate readie dressed after their vse likewise to sell.

  43. Ducats in gold, with meate abüdantly for two dayes, and secretely made complaynt vnto him of Mutezuma.

  44. They seldome or never make bread of their Indian corne, but seeth it whole like beanes, eating three or four cornes with a mouthfull of fish or flesh, sometimes eating meate first and cornes after, filling chinckes with their broth.

  45. In lykewise at my monthes mynd and also at my yerely mynd all the charge of the church set apart I will have in meate and drynke and to pore people 10s.


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