47 examples of countrie in sentences

In the year 1439, a petition was presented to Parliament against one Piers Venables of Aston, in Derbyshire, "who having no liflode, ne sufficeante of goodes, gadered and assembled unto him many misdoers, beynge of his clothynge, and, in manere of insurrection, wente into the wodes in that countrie, like as it hadde be Robyn Hude and his meyne.

Since hope of helpe my froward starres denie, Come, sweetest death, and end my miserie; He left his countrie, I my shape have lost; Deare is the love that hath so dearly cost.

In 1592 Robert Greene, a London poet, dramatist, and hack-writer, wrote: "There is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tyger's heart wrapped in a Player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bumbast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Iohannes fac-totum, is in his owne conceit the only Shake-scene in a countrie.

The maine of the Turkes countrie is bordering on it within one mile, for the which cause they are in great subiection.

Haunce, see that all things be in order set Both for our Musicke and our large Carowse, That (after our best countrie fashion) I may give entertainment to the Prince.

He did proclaime reliefe unto the poore; Assembled them unto a private Barne, And, having lockt the doore, set it on fire, Saying hee'de rid the countrie of such Mice: And Mice and Rats have rid him from the World.

He did proclaime reliefe unto the poore; Assembled them unto a private Barne And, having lockt the doore, set it on fire, Saying hee'de rid the countrie of such Mice; And Mice and Rats have rid him from the World.

I haue no appetite at all to live in the countrie any more; now, as they say, I have got a smacke on the Cittie.

What Countrie? Bos.

No countrie shall slippe me.

In the old ballad of "The Fray of Hautwessel," we are told that "The limmer thieves o' Liddesdale Wadna leave a kye in the haill countrie, But an we gi'e them the cauld steel, Our gear they'll reive it a' awaye, Sae pert they stealis, I you saye.

"O the Oak and the Ash and the bonny Ivy tree, They are all growing green in my North Countrie!" "O fain wad

I be in the North Countrie Where the lads and the lasses are all making hay; O there wad I see what is pleasant to me, A mischief 'light on them enticed me away!

O the Oak and the Ash and the bonny Ivy tree, They are all growing green in my North Countrie!" "Then farewell my father, and farewell my mother, Until I do see you I nothing but mourn; Remembering my brothers, my sisters, and others In less than a year I hope to return.

They are all growing green in my North Countrie!" SAIR FEYL'D, HINNY! "Sair feyl'd, hinny!

MY NORTH COUNTRIE.

though here fair blows the rose, and the woodbine waves on high, And oak, and elm, and bracken fronds enrich the rolling lea, And winds, as if in Arcady, breathe joy as they go by, Yet I yearn and I pine for my North Countrie! I leave the drowsing South, and in thought I northward fly, And walk the stretching moors that fringe the ever-calling sea, And am gladdened as the gales that are so bitter-sweet rush by.

While grey clouds sweetly darken o'er my North Countrie.

For there's music in the storms, and there's colour in the shades, And joy e'en in the grief so widely brooding o'er the sea; And larger thoughts have birth amid the moors and lonely glades And reedy mounds and sands of my North Countrie!

" "If she be dead, then take my horse, My saddle and bridle also; For I will into some far countrie, Where no man shall me know.

In peace at hande the Farriers must be hadde, For lanncing, healinge, bleedinge, and for shooeinge, In Warres abroade of hym they wille be gladd To cure the wounded Horsse, still he is douinge, In peace or warre abroade, or ellse at home, To Kinge and Countrie that some good may come.

He lived in Gothic days in the north countrie, and fed his flocks on Scotia's mountains.

The countrie is very good and fruitfull.

All the countrie is set with Bambos or Canes made sharpe at both the endes and driuen into the earth, and they can let in the water and drowne the ground aboue knee deepe, so that men nor horses can passe.

My daughter is a Whore, I feele it now too sencible; yet I will see her, Discharge my selfe of being Father to her, And then backe to my Countrie, and there die; Farewell Captaine.

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